Bangladesh Elections, Feb. 12 -- Bangladesh is voting today in the country's first Parliamentary election since a deadly 2024 uprising that marked the end of Sheikh Hasina's fifteen-year tenure.

Queues stretched outside polling stations in the capital, Dhaka, as voting in the hugely anticipated election opened in the South Asian nation of 170 million people, news agencies reported from the ground.

More than 300,000 soldiers and police are deployed countrywide, with UN experts warning ahead of voting of "growing intolerance, threats and attacks", and a "tsunami of disinformation", especially targeting millions of young first-time voters, AFP said.

Leading prime ministerial hopeful Tarique Rahman, 60, is confident his Bangladesh National...