Dhaka, Feb 12 (IANS) Violence continues to rage across Bangladesh as the country votes during the 13th parliamentary election on Thursday. Nasiruddin Patwari, a candidate for the 11-party alliance and leader of the National Citizens Party (NCP), was reportedly attacked as he was visiting a polling booth in the Dhaka-8 constituency.
Dhaka, Feb 12 (IANS) Radical Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami Chief Shafiqur Rahman on Thursday voiced optimism that his party would secure power through the mandate of the voters in the high-stakes Bangladeshi national elections, local media reported.
New Delhi, Feb 12 (IANS) The privatisation of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has been sold as a big reform to end decades of losses, but the opaque deal has turned out to be an example of institutionalised corruption, according to a media report.
Dhaka, Feb 12 (IANS) Violence erupted at several polling booths across Bangladesh on Thursday, leading to the death of a political leader as the voting was underway across the nation, local media reported.
Quetta, Feb 12 (IANS) Baloch activists, political leaders and human rights activists voiced concerns over the situation in Balochistan, focusing on issues like enforced disappearances and political representation, during the Asma Jahangir Conference in Lahore, local media reported.
Dhaka, Feb 12 (IANS) Voting in the parliamentary elections was underway across Bangladesh on Thursday, with long queues forming outside polling centres in the capital Dhaka as citizens turned out in large numbers to exercise their franchise in a historic contest.
Dhaka, Feb 12 (IANS) As Bangladesh votes in its 13th National Parliament election, two voter blocs are increasingly being viewed as decisive forces in determining the political outcome -- Generation Z and women, according to a media report.
Dhaka, Feb 12 (IANS) A 28-year-old Hindu man was found dead with visible injury marks on his body in Bangladesh's Moulvibazar district, just a day before the crucial general elections, raising fresh anxieties among minority communities over possible election-linked violence amid an already tense political atmosphere, according to local media reports.
Dhaka, Feb 12 (IANS) Bangladesh's interim government's Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus cast his vote in the 13th parliamentary elections on Thursday, describing the day as one of "great joy", calling it "the birthday of the new Bangladesh", local media reported.
New Delhi, Feb 12 (IANS) The much-awaited elections in Bangladesh finally got underway on Thursday, amidst incidents of vote theft and violence.
