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New political platform NPA launched

A new political platform ‘Network for Peoples’ Action’ was launched on Friday at Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka city, vowing for establishing a society free from discrimination and establishing people’s

7th-day EC hearings reinstate 18 candidates

The Election Commission on Friday reinstated the nominations of 18 candidates during the seventh day of hearings challenging returning officers’ decisions on nomination papers for the forthcoming 13th parliamentary elections.

IAB quits Jamaat alliance, to join polls alone

Islami Andolan Bangladesh on Friday announced that it would contest the February Jatiya Sangsad elections alone, formally opting out of the 11-party electoral alliance led by the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, citing

Cyber violence affects cultural events, practices

Increasing incidents of cyber violence against women cultural activists are affecting cultural events and practices in the country, women cultural activists said. They said that cyber violence against the activists

Announce election schedule without delay: Fakhrul

Bangladesh Nationalist Party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has urged the interim government to announce the schedule for the 13th parliamentary election without further delay and to hold the

NCP seeks 20 seats from BNP, demands share in cabinet

The National Citizen Party (NCP) is visibly leaning towards the BNP on question of possible seat-sharing negotiations. Although none of the negotiations have been made public, both parties admit that

NCP may not nominate candidates in Khaleda’s constituencies: Nahid

National Citizen Party is unlikely to nominate candidates in the three constituencies where Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia is expected to contest in the upcoming 13th National Parliamentary Election,

New Yorkers elect Zohran Mamdani as their first Muslim mayor

New Yorkers elected young leftist Zohran Mamdani as their next mayor on Tuesday and Democrats won two key state governor races as United States voters delivered an early warning to