In her message to India, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said, ''We are very lucky...India is our trusted friend. During our Liberation War, they supported us...After 1975, when we lost our whole family...they gave us shelter. So our best wishes to the people of India."
"Our country is sovereign and independent...We have a big population. We have established people's democratic rights...I want to make sure that democracy should continue in this country and without democracy, you can't make any development. As we are a long-term democratic system from 200
At least 14 polling centres and two schools in 10 districts of Bangladesh were set on fire between Friday evening and early Saturday, as reported by the Dhaka Tribune.
The Bangladesh Election Commission's election application, "Smart Election Management BD" crashed on the eve of general elections scheduled to be held on January 7, as reported by the Dhaka Tribune.
Ahead of the Parliamentary elections in Bangladesh, the country's Foreign Minister A K Abdul Momen has expressed his optimism about Sheikh Hasina clinching her fourth term in office, underlining that the country will maintain the same policy towards its neighbour, particularly India.
On the deployment of law-enforcement agencies in Bangladesh ahead of general elections, the country's Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habib-ul Awal has said that the elections are not always peaceful and sometimes become turbulent, which is why the forces are deployed to maintain law and
Ahead of the general elections set to be held tomorrow in Bangladesh, the country's opposition party, the BNP, staged a massive protest in Dhaka's Paltan area today.
The pre-poll violence occurred on Friday at around 9:05 PM, killed four people. Officials called the incident a "planned attack." The CID team collected DNA samples from the relatives of the victims to identify the bodies, Bangladesh-based The Dhaka Tribune reported.
Ahead of the January 7 general elections in Bangladesh, the main opposition party, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), issued a call for a 48-hour nationwide 'hartal' (general strike) commencing on Saturday to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's "illegal government,"
According to an official from the Bangladesh Embassy in Delhi, "three senior members of the Election Commission of India is among those who have landed in Dhaka as part of the international election observer."