Local government, rural development and cooperatives minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday said that local government elections across Bangladesh could begin in September or October this year, subject to the availability of budgetary allocations.
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NATIONAL elections dominate political discussion in Bangladesh and local elections often get somewhat overshadowed. Yet, it is these grassroots elections that determine who is responsible for building local roads, managing waste, supervising sanitation services, ensuring safe water, responding to emergencies and providing many of the public services that...
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Tamim Iqbal is set to become the next president after he was elected as a director in the Bangladesh Cricket Board elections held at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur on Sunday.
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The first budget session of the 13th Jatiya Sangsad is scheduled to open today, as lawmakers prepare for discussions ahead of the proposed national budget for the financial year 2026-27 to be presented on June 11.
The head of South Korea’s election commission resigned Friday, hours after riot police cleared protesters from a Seoul polling station following a near two-day blockade sparked by a ballot shortage during local elections.
The previous board, led by Aminul Islam, called upon the ICC to not recognise the forthcoming elections of the Bangladesh Cricket Board after a meeting with the delegation of the cricket’s global governing body at a city hotel in Dhaka on Tuesday.
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The Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami will take part in the next local government elections alone -- not with its alliance partners.
As many as eight candidates were elected uncontested in the forthcoming Bangladesh Cricket Board elections, as the window for withdrawing nominations was closed on Monday.
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At least four candidates are set to be elected unopposed in the upcoming Bangladesh Cricket Board election subject to their nomination forms’ approval, as the election commission revealed the numbers of nomination forms submitted on Friday.
Chief election commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin on Thursday said that the Election Commission wanted to hold ‘bloodshed-free’ local government elections and would launch awareness campaigns to prevent violence during the polls.
The Asian Network for Free Elections, in its final report on the 2026 Jatiya Sangsad elections and referendum in Bangladesh, expressed concern over low participation of women and minorities, weak campaign finance regulations, and political intimidation...
A total of 39 nomination forms were collected across two days for the forthcoming Bangladesh Cricket Board elections, confirmed the election commission on Thursday...
THE BNP government’s decision to abolish the Supreme Court secretariat marks a worrying retreat from one of its most important democratic commitments. The party has for years spoken forcefully, also in its 31-point reform agenda and election manifesto, about the need for the independence of the judiciary after what it described as the systematic misuse of courts and...
State minister for local government, rural development and cooperatives Mir Shahe Alam on Tuesday said that the government is planning to begin holding local government elections across the country in phases from September or October this year...
Chief election commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin on Monday called on the political parties to sit together and reach consensus to ensure peaceful local government elections to be held soon.
The current ad hoc committee members, including the president Tamim Iqbal, and notable former cricketers were present in the councillors’ list for the forthcoming BCB elections published on Sunday.
The next Bangladesh Cricket Board elections will be held on June 7, as the election commission announced the schedule on Saturday.
The Election Commission is preparing to start local government elections in October this year, but the exact date remains unconfirmed, EC high officials said, adding that the initial phase might begin with municipality or upazila parishad elections.
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday pledged to press ahead with reforms within the Palestinian Authority, saying he was prepared to hold long-delayed presidential and parliamentary elections...
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami spent over Tk 4.49 crore in the 13th parliamentary election, while Jatiya Party reported spending only Tk 5 lakh, according to official election expenditure statements submitted to the election commission...
The Bangladesh Cricket Board has formed a three-member Election Commission ahead of the forthcoming 2026 board of directors' election on Wednesday following the dissolution of the previous elected body.
