bangladesh elections

Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was reelected for a fifth term Sunday in the general elections. Several opposition parties led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) boycotted these elections. Out of the 264 seats of the…

At least four persons died and several others were injured when miscreants torched a passenger train coming from the port town of Benapole, bordering India, in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka on Friday. This arson occurred ahead of Bangladesh's…

Dhaka: Shakib Al Hasan, the captain of the Bangladesh one-day cricket team, is contesting polls from his home constituency, Magura, as a candidate of the Awami League (AL) party, reported Al Jazeera. Hasan, currently the captain of…

Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Thursday gave a call for a 48-hour nationwide strike demanding the scrapping of the January 7 general elections. The two-day national strike starts on Sunday morning. The BNP announced…