DHAKA, Bangladesh -- Tens of thousands of activists of a leading political party in Bangladesh rallied in the nation’s ...

Two thousand people did not sacrifice their lives in the July-August mass uprising solely for an election, said Sarjis Alam, a coordinator of the Anti-discrimination Student Movement.

I’M ABOUT Sheikh Hasina’s age, give or take a few months. In my youth, I voted for her father; then in middle age, I voted ...

While Islamist political parties often form alliances with major parties for elections, new dynamics are emerging in the post ...

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has publicly opposed it so far. The party’s reluctance is likely due to its perception as the “party-in-waiting” after the ouster of the Awami League-led government.

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which has inarguably emerged as the largest political party in the country after the ...

Amid uncertainties about Bangladesh's election timeline, the interim govt led by Mohammad Yunus indicates it could take a little over a year to organize polls. Six commissions are set to submit ...

The Awami League demanded that Bangladesh switch from the Presidential to the parliamentary system with the Prime Minister as the Chief Executive. Accordingly, the BNP government passed the Twelfth ...

The U.S. State Department said in September it was taking steps to impose visa restrictions on individuals responsible for undermining the democratic election process in Bangladesh. They include ...

AN UPTICK of an old fault line: the protracted Bangladeshi discourse over history has recently stepped up since a ...

When she returned years later, she was a breath of fresh air, eventually helping to end military rule and becoming prime minister for the first time in 1996. Image A torn poster of Bangladesh’s ...

The 15th constitutional amendment has destroyed the charter’s basic structures -- democracy, right to vote, and free and fair polls, Sharif Bhuiyan, principal counsel for the five writ petitioners who ...