Union parishad election

Union parishad election
UP members don’t even get negligible honorarium in full

UP members don’t even get negligible honorarium in full

The honorarium of UP chairman and members is absolutely inadequate. As they are not receiving the UP part of the payment, their daily honorarium is less than Tk 120

Map of Mymensingh

Chaos over list of ‘Peace Committee’ members in Ishwarganj

Chaotic situation has emerged over drawing up of a list of ‘peace committee’ members (collaborators of occupying Pakistani army in 1971) in Ishwarganj of Mymensingh

The miscreants vandalised the house with local weapons.

Ctg house vandalised for casting vote for 'boat'

The victim -- Narayan Nath, a motorcycle mechanic in profession – claimed the vandals to be followers of the defeated candidates

Khulna district map

UP chairman stabbed in Khulna

A union parishad (UP) chairman has been stabbed allegedly by some miscreants over establishing dominance in Dighalia upazila in Khulna, police said on Monday

Editorial

Boat candidate and EVM: How could he remain a candidate?

We observed with astonishment no leader of Awami League of any level protested or reacted against what Mujibul Haque Chowdhury said

Mojibul Haque Chowdhury during his speech in Chattogram on 29 May, 2022

‘If you can’t, my people will press the EVM button for you’ EC calls for inquiry into AL candidate’s statement in Chattogram

“The government is carrying out the election here with EVMs. What could I do about it? You will have to kindly press a button to cast your vote. If you can’t press it, I will keep people there who ...

Female UP member ‘raped’ in Rajshahi, 5 held

Female UP member ‘raped’ in Rajshahi, 5 held

A 47-year-old female UP member (reserved seat) has reportedly been raped by another UP member for two days in Mohonpur upazila of Rajshahi district

Editorial

Zila Parishad Why should politicians be administrators?

The government has amended the relevant law by making provision for the appointment of administrators after the expiration of the term of 61 zila parishads (district councils) in January

Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud

'Foreign Minister did not discuss about BNP in talks with US counterpart'

BNP is afraid of joining polls and that’s why they have rejected the Union Parishad elections as well as parliamentary voting, Hasan Mahmud said

Election Commission Building

Dialogue essential, but not without any agenda

Relations between the election commission and the political parties need to be extremely open because it is these political parties, singularly or as an alliance, that nominate candidates for the ...

Badiul Alam Majumdar

Interview: Badiul Alam Majumdar 'Election Commission must prove itself in action, not words'

Secretary of SHUJAN, Badiul Alam Majumdar, in an interview with Prothom Alo, speaks about the new election commission, its challenges, the way ahead, and more

CEC Kazi Habibul Awal talks to media as other commissioners listens

Did CEC just ‘acknowledge’ the indispensability of caretaker government?

Any person who is a beneficiary of any government is not qualified to be appointed as an election commissioner

Woman alleges police threatened to rape her and tortured husband at police station

Woman alleges police threatened to rape her and tortured husband at police station

A woman has brought about allegations that Rajbari police threatened to rape her inside the police station. The woman made a formal complaint to IGP’s complaint cell of the police headquarters where ...

Marufa Akhter Mitu

Transgender Marufa elected UP member

Transgender Marufa Akhter Mitu has been elected as a Member from reserved wards 1, 2 and 3 of Durgapur union parishad (UP) in Rangpur’s Mithapukur upazila.

Editorial

UP Election EC must be held accountable for poll violence

UP polls in almost all the districts and upazilas of the country were mired in violence, take over of polling centres and vandalism

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