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BREAKING NEWS CEC rules out possibility of results boycott Star Online Report Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda said there would not be any scope for any quarters to reject today’s election results as the polling process has been accomplished so meticulously. “The voting process has been arranged in such a way that there ... Read more

BREAKING NEWS Winners to work jointly with losers: Gen Moeen UNB, Dhaka Army chief Gen Moeen U Ahmed hoped that Monday’s election winners along with the losers would work together for taking the country forward. “The country should not be divided unnecessarily and without any reason,” he told reporters after casting his vote at Adamjee ... Read more

BREAKING NEWS Voting going on peacefully: EU team chief UNB, Dhaka European Union (EU) chief election observer Alexander Lamsdorff today said he found large turnout of enthusiastic voters casting their votes in an orderly and peaceful manner in the first three hours without any fear and intimidation. Talking to reporters and election officials after observing ... Read more

Massive security measures for 9th JS elections Staff Correspondent Displaying a landmark progress in the quest for “a government of the people, by the people and for the people”, the nation goes to

Staff correspondent The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Sunday said that she was feeling relaxed after completing preparations and hectic campaigns across the country for the general polls on Monday. ‘I feel relaxed as I have done all the works, and still I am in good health,’ Khaleda Zia told while exchanging views ... Read more

Foreign observers hope polls will be free, fair Staff Correspondent The European Parliamentary Party, the European Union polls observation team and the National Democratic Institute on Sunday hoped that Bangladesh’s ninth parliamentary polls today would be free and fair through which the people would elect a new government. ‘We hope that the best election will ... Read more

CA tells nation Unb, Dhaka Chief Adviser (CA) Fakhruddin Ahmed has urged the electorates to cast their votes wisely and appealed to the political parties to gracefully accept the results of today’s crucial general election. “Let us get united and participate in an appropriate democratic process. I hope tomorrow’s parliament elections will be a classic ... Read more

CEC warns poll officials again Unb, Dhaka Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda has urged the voters to cast their votes judiciously in today’s national election. “Don’t vote at the instigation of anybody, cast vote by using your intellect and conscience to achieve your cherished dream,” he said in a televised address to the ... Read more

bdnews24.com, Dhaka “Can you tell me what to do? There are three candidates in my constituency, but none of them are any good. I don’t find any reason to go and vote.” A voice comes to the help of this unhappy voter. “You can still apply your voting rights if you don’t like any of ... Read more

Unb, Dhaka The first national election in independent Bangladesh was held on March 7, 1973 where a total of 1,209 candidates, including 120 independents, contested 300 seats. Of the total 35,205,642 registered voters, 19,329,683 (54.91%) voters exercised their franchise in the first election. Awami League secured 293 seats while the rest seven seats were shared ... Read more

Rakib Hasnet Suman The country is ready to return to normal through today’s election after a lot of dramatic turns of events during the last two years’ rule under a state of emergency that resulted from confrontational politics. The root of the crisis lies in the BNP-led four-party alliance government’s passing the 14th constitution amendment ... Read more

Our Correspondent . Tangail At least 24 persons were killed and 15 others injured when a truck fell into a road-side ditch at Garinda near Tangail town on Sunday morning. The police, quoting the witnesses, said the accident had taken place at about 9:00am when a Bogra-bound rod-laden truck from Dhaka, also carrying 45 people ... Read more

Staff Reporter At least 600,000 security personnel, including nearly 50,000 army troops have been deployed across the country to ensure a smooth election today for a new parliament and government. Home Ministry officials said yesterday the deployment of law enforcers at polling centers began from 6:00am and election materials started to be moved to remote ... Read more

Staff Reporter Cellular phones network will be in operation during the parliamentary elections to facilitate communication, Chief Election Commissioner Dr ATM Shamsul Huda said yesterday. In a televised address, CEC said the mobile phones would remain open this time during the parliamentary elections in order to keep communications uninterrupted. He said none would be allowed ... Read more

Staff Correspondent The president, Iajuddin Ahmed, will cast his vote in the Bangabhaban Government Primary School polling centre at about 11:00am and the chief adviser, Fakhruddin Ahmed, will cast his vote in the Gulshan Model High School polling centre at about 10:00am today. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, will cast her vote in ... Read more

Staff Correspondent The government has put in place five-tier security with the deployment of more than 6 lakh security personnel across the country for the general elections today. Home ministry officials said 80,567 personnel of the police, Rapid Action Battalion and the Armed Police Battalion and 466,000 Ansars personnel were deployed across the country. This ... Read more

Offers apology for past mistakes Shahidul Islam Chowdhury The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Saturday said democracy and development were synonymous with BNP and its election symbol ‘paddy sheaf’ and urged the people

Nazrul Islam and Tushar Hayat . Chittagong The Awami League president, Sheikh Hasina, on Saturday sought a mandate from the electorate for her party’s ‘charter for change’ in Monday’s parliamentary elections urging the voters not to let their conscience be sold out to black money on offer. ‘They are out with sackfuls of money they ... Read more

Mostafa Kamal Majumder Begum Khaleda Zia, Chairperson of the BNP and leader of the 4-party alliance yesterday sought people’s mercy for mistakes committed during the alliance rule that ended in 2006 while at the same time asserting success in reducing corruption that, she said, had peaked during the Awami League rule between 1996 and 2001. ... Read more

Hasina, Khaleda respond to Al Jazeera Star Report Qatar-based television channel Al Jazeera published exclusive interviews of Awami League President Sheikh Hasina and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Friday. Al Jazeera asked the two leaders the same questions. Why should the people of Bangladesh elect you again? Sheikh Hasina: “Last time I was in power ... Read more