Bangladesh Polls
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Bangladesh Election: BNP nears two-thirds majority with 207 seats, set to form next government
World | Feb 13, 2026, 07:20 AM ISTThe polls were held to choose a new government to replace the interim administration led by Muhammad Yunus, which assumed power 18 months ago following the fall of the Awami League government in August 2024.
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Hindu man found dead with hands, legs tied in Bangladesh on eve of general election
World | Feb 12, 2026, 11:13 AM ISTThe incident is the latest in a series of targetted killings of Hindus in Bangladesh since the ouster of Sheikh Hasin and the rise of radical Islamist elements in the country.
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Pakistan's Lashkar, Jaish and ISI trying disrupt Bangladesh polls; Indian agencies on alert: Sources
World | Feb 12, 2026, 11:12 AM ISTBangladesh elections 2026: Indian agencies are monitoring the situation in Bangladesh, as the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) are trying to disrupt the parliamentary elections in the neighbouring country.
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Bangladesh Election: Which political parties are contesting and what happened in the last 3 polls?
World | Feb 07, 2026, 11:51 PM ISTBangladesh General Election: The National Citizen Party, a fresh centrist force spearheaded by 27-year-old student activist Nahid Islam, promises sweeping reforms including a new constitution, improved healthcare and climate action.
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'Bagladesh election dates could be fixed by...': Yunus BIG announcement
World | Dec 16, 2024, 12:09 PM ISTAmid the growing expectation for an election roadmap, Bangladesh Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus on Monday said the next national election can be arranged at a time between the end of 2025 and the first half of 2026.
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Sheikh Hasina sworn in as Prime Minister of Bangladesh for fifth term, replaces foreign minister
World | Jan 11, 2024, 11:07 PM ISTThe 76-year-old Sheikh Hasina, the daughter of Bangladesh's founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, has been ruling the strategically located South Asian nation since 2009 and is among the world's longest-serving female heads of government.
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Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina elected for fifth term, declares Election Commission
World | Jan 07, 2024, 11:51 PM ISTLeaders of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which boycotted General Elections, said it plans to intensify its anti-government movement through a peaceful public engagement programme from Tuesday as it dubbed the polls as "fake".
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Bangladesh elections: Amid violence and Opposition boycott, voter turnout falls record low
World | Jan 07, 2024, 06:55 PM ISTAccording to the initial estimates, the voter turnout was around 40 per cent but the figure could change after the final count, Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal said.
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'We are very lucky...India is our trusted friend': Bangladesh PM Hasina praises Delhi's role in 1971
World | Jan 07, 2024, 11:14 AM ISTBangladesh elections: PM Hasina recounted the horrors of her family's massacre in 1975, in which her whole family was killed and she lived in exile in India for years.
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Bangladesh: Two polling booths set on fire ahead of elections, day after train torched in Dhaka
World | Jan 06, 2024, 04:49 PM ISTAt least four people were killed, including two children, and several others were injured after four coaches of the Benapole Express train in Dhaka's Gopibagh area were set ablaze on Friday. This happened two days before the elections, where PM Sheikh Hasina is poised to win.
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Bangladesh: 'Opposition party sets passenger train on fire', 4 including a mother and child killed
World | Dec 19, 2023, 02:51 PM ISTThe miscreants set on fire three compartments of the Dhaka-bound inter-district Mohanganj Express early morning shortly after the train left the Airport Railway Station at the entry point of the capital, police and witnesses said.
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India assures Bangladesh to stand firmly even after 52 years of Liberation War and West's pressure
World | Dec 17, 2023, 08:21 PM ISTConveying his warmest wishes on Victory Day, Verma said the Liberation War and the triumph of the people epitomise the two countries' shared sacrifices for Bangladesh's freedom and stand testimony to the time-tested friendship between Delhi and Dhaka.
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Bangladesh announces national elections to be held on January 7 amid growing political tensions
World | Nov 15, 2023, 07:33 PM ISTFive people have been killed and 8,000 opposition members have been arrested in the violence that engulfed Bangladesh on October 28. The opposition has demanded PM Sheikh Hasina to resign and allow a non-partisan interim government to conduct the elections.
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Bangladesh set for general election today amid mounting tension
World | Dec 30, 2018, 01:37 AM ISTBangladesh will vote on Sunday amid an increasingly violent atmosphere which would see 104 million people going to the ballot boxes in the largely Muslim country. Voters will cast ballots for 299 parliamentary seats between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.
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B'desh police besiege Zia at office ahead of polls anniversary
World | Jan 04, 2015, 02:30 PM ISTDhaka: Ahead of the first anniversary of the controversial elections which was boycotted by the opposition, police confined Bangladesh Nationalist Party chief Khaleda Zia, besieging her office here and forcing her to spend the night
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Jamaat-e-Islami ineligible for next elections: Bangladesh EC
World | Nov 07, 2013, 09:26 PM ISTDhaka: In a major blow to the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami ahead of polls in Bangladesh, the Election Commission today said the party cannot participate in the general election in line with a court order. Election Commissioner Shah
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Protests turn violent in Bangladesh
World | Dec 09, 2012, 04:05 PM ISTDhaka, Dec 9: Police in fired rubber bullets and tear gas Sunday to disperse stone-throwing protesters who set fire to vehicles and tried to block roads across Bangladesh to demand restoration of caretaker administration to