, Oct. 29 -- The interim government on Wednesday announced that no official who was involved in any capacity, including returning officers, assistant returning officers, presiding officers, or polling officers, in the last three national elections would be engaged in the upcoming parliamentary election.

The decision came from a high-level meeting on election preparations, presided over by Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus at the State Guest House Jamuna.

Briefing reporters at the Foreign Service Academy, Chief Adviser's Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam said the meeting focused on mainly four issues - the posting of field-level officials and countering misinformation and disinformation on social media during the election period, training of...