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EC assures journalists of exemption from ban on mobile phone use at polling centres

Dhaka, Feb. 9 -- The Election Commission (EC) has promised to exempt journalists from the ban on mobile phone use at polling centres during the parliamentary polls scheduled for Feb 12. The Reporters... Read More


Nahid threatens to besiege EC over election mobile phone restrictions

Dhaka, Feb. 9 -- National Citizen Party (NCP) leader Nahid Islam has threatened to besiege the Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday if the rule barring mobile phones within 400 yards of polling centres... Read More


Nahid threatens to besiege EC over mobile phone restrictions

Dhaka, Feb. 9 -- National Citizen Party (NCP) leader Nahid Islam has threatened to besiege the Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday if the rule barring mobile phones within 400 yards of polling centres... Read More


ACC to prosecute former justice, former secretary over 'abusing power' in housing project

Dhaka, Feb. 9 -- The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has decided to file a case against eight people, including a former judge, a former senior secretary, and top officials of the National Housing Au... Read More


High Court judges Naima Haider, Mamnoon Rahman resign

Dhaka, Feb. 9 -- The Supreme Court's High Court (HC) Division judges Justice Naima Haider and Justice Mamnoon Rahman have stood down. Their letters of resignation have been forwarded to the president... Read More


150 police sub-inspectors promoted to rank of inspector

Dhaka, Feb. 9 -- Three days before Bangladesh votes in the 13th parliamentary elections, the government has promoted over 150 police sub-inspectors to the rank of inspector. A total of 153 police off... Read More


Ex-Army chief Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan calls for RAB, DGFI to be dissolved

Dhaka, Feb. 9 -- Former Bangladesh Army chief Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan has called for the dissolution of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI), accusing... Read More


No security threats surrounding general election, says DMP chief Sazzat

Dhaka, Feb. 9 -- Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner SM Sazzat Ali says there are no threats of violence surrounding the upcoming 13th parliamentary election. Speaking at a media briefing on... Read More


20 former ministers, MPs and officials in custody vote by postal ballot

Dhaka, Feb. 9 -- Twenty former ministers, MPs, senior officials and journalists currently in custody have cast their votes in the national election through postal ballots. Forty such inmates had regi... Read More


Drone cameras to be used to monitor law and order situation on election day

Dhaka, Feb. 9 -- The Bangladesh Air Force, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) will monitor the law-and-order situation using drone cameras during the 13th parliamentary ele... Read More