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EC raises voter numbers per booth under revised election guidelines

Bangladesh, Sept. 2 -- Election Commission (EC) has revised its guidelines for polling centres, raising the number of voters assigned to each booth and reducing the overall number of booths nationwide... Read More


North Korea's Kim Jong Un heads to Beijing by train to attend parade, state media says

Bangladesh, Sept. 2 -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un crossed the border into China on his special train early on Tuesday to attend China's celebration of the formal surrender of Japan in World War T... Read More


Chief Advisor Yunus to meet with 7 political parties at 5pm

Bangladesh, Sept. 2 -- Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus is to hold talks with leaders from seven more political parties after meeting representatives from the BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami, and the National Citize... Read More


BAU students block railway for second day to push for six demands

Bangladesh, Sept. 2 -- Students at Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) have extended their protest into a second day by blocking the Dhaka-Mymensingh rail route amid ongoing tensions over the uni... Read More


HC ruling restores control of subordinate judges to Supreme Court

Bangladesh, Sept. 2 -- The High Court has transferred control of judicial appointments, transfers, promotions, leave, and discipline from the executive branch to the Supreme Court. It has also ordere... Read More


BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul visits injured Nur, Lutfur in hospital

Bangladesh, Sept. 2 -- BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has visited Nurul Haque Nur, president of Gono Odhikar Parishad (GOP), and Khandaker Lutfur Rahman, chief of a Jatiya Ganatantr... Read More


University Teachers' Network demands stern action against student over rape threat to DUCSU candidate

Bangladesh, Sept. 2 -- The University Teachers' Network has called for exemplary punishment of a student accused of threatening to "gang rape" a female candidate in the Dhaka University Central Studen... Read More


DUCSU candidate Meghmallar set to undergo surgery, campaigning in doubt

Bangladesh, Sept. 2 -- Meghmallar Basu, the Pratirodh Panel's general secretary candidate in the upcoming Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) elections, has been admitted to hospital in t... Read More


July Uprising: Formal charges pressed in 34 out of over 1,500 cases so far

Bangladesh, Sept. 2 -- Police have submitted chargesheets for eight more cases filed across Bangladesh in connection with murders and other offences committed during last year's anti-government protes... Read More


Nagorik Oikya's Manna says govt must explain how polls will be held amid unrest

Bangladesh, Sept. 2 -- Mahmudur Rahman Manna, convener of the Nagorik Oikya, says the party will ask Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus how the interim government plans to hold elections in what he describe... Read More