Jamaat has 21 candidates in the fray with the paddy-sheaf symbol other constituents of the front are also using for the December 30 polls...

A Court order prohibits anyone sentenced to over two years in jail from contesting polls...

She is lodged in a 200-year-old prison in Dhaka since February last year, serving a 10-year jail term ...

People who are ignorant about animals are not necessarily indifferent to them...

The Rohingya issue and religious extremism are just two examples of why Ms Wajed has her task cut out...

Nineteen others, including a former home minister, have been given the death penalty...

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party is lobbying hard with Western countries and India to ensure a ‘free and fair poll’...

Hasina was offered a virtual walkover in the elections held in January 2014 as the BNP had boycotted the polls ...