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Badiul Alam Majumdar seeks political consensus on EVM use

Chairman of the Election Reform Commission Badiul Alam Majumdar has called for political consensus on the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs), citing ongoing concerns over their reliability and potential for misuse. Speaking at a press briefing at the Election Commission headquarters on...

New voter information on EC server within 3 days of registration

The Election Commission (EC) has directed officials to upload new voter data to the server within three days of capturing fingerprints, photographs, and completing the registration process. Mohammad Ariful Islam, System Analyst Engineer at the ECs NID branch, issued an instruction to field...

BNP's target elections

Although the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the countrys largest political party, has called on the interim government to ensure timely elections, its main focus remains on the upcoming national parliamentary election in no time. The partys leadership aims to establish an elected government...

Trump wins Arizona, completing sweep of swing states

Donald Trump, Republican candidate for the presidential election 2024 of the United States has secured 270 electoral-college votes needed to win the election early Wednesday, reports Al Jazeera. However, the Associated Press declared on Saturday that Donald Trump has won the presidential...

Election commission faces allegations of worst corruption in 16 Years: Sarjis Alam

The July Shaheed Smriti Foundation has extended financial support to the families of 18 individuals who lost their lives during the student movement in Sylhet division. A total of 5 lakh taka was given to each family as a gesture of assistance. Donation checks were distributed to the bereaved...

Biden to address nation after Trump's mighty comeback

US President Joe Biden is set to deliver a poignant address to the nation on Thursday, pledging a peaceful transfer of power to Donald Trump following his decisive victory over Kamala Harris. In what promises to be an agonizing moment for Biden, he will speak in the Rose Garden of the White...

Massive victory of four Bangladeshis

Four Bangladeshi-Americans have achieved a huge margin victory amidst the heroic victory of the Republican Donald Trump in the US presidential elections. All of them were elected as state level representatives in the US. However, so far, no Bangladeshi-American has been elected in US Senate or...

BNP proposes 5 names for new EC

The BNP proposed the names of five individuals to the search committee for the new Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday. BNP Standing Committee Member Salahuddin Ahmed and Joint Secretary General Shahiduddin Chowdhury Annie submitted the names to the Cabinet Secretary Sheikh Abdur Rashid,...

Dollar soars, Bitcoin hits record high as 'Trump trades' surge

The U.S. dollar surged on Wednesday, set for its biggest one-day rise since March 2020, as traders responded to growing expectations of a Republican victory in the upcoming election. At the same time, Bitcoin reached a new all-time high, fueled by the rise of so-called Trump trades, which have...

Arab Americans should not be blamed if Trump wins: Arab advocate

Activist Adam Abusalah has warned against pointing the finger at Arab Americans if Harris loses to Trump, reports Al Jazeera. Partial results from Dearborn show that the Arab community abandoned Democratic candidates over the Biden-Harris administrations support for Israels war on Gaza and...

The Blue wall still in reach: Harris campaign’s chair

The Harris campaigns chair Jen OMalley Dillon said that she did not expect a quick resolution to the race as she remained optimistic that vice president Kamala Harris still has a path to victory, reports CNN. She made the statement to the staffers in an email on early Wednesday (Bangladesh...

Trump at 168 electoral votes, Harris at 81

Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican former president Donald Trump are battling it out for the White House, with polls gradually closing across the United States Tuesday and a long night of waiting for vote count expected. Outcomes are tumbling in, with US media projecting wins...

U.S. Election: Final voting day as millions vote early

Election Day 2024 arrived on Tuesday, with tens of millions of Americans already having cast their ballots. This includes record turnout in key battleground states like Georgia and North Carolina, which could play a decisive role in determining the winner. The early turnout in Georgia, which has...

Dixville Notch's first election day vote results in tie

Voters in the US hamlet of Dixville Notch launched Election Day in the first minutes of Tuesday with a tied vote, mirroring the incredibly close national polls in the White House race. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump each got three ballots in the tiny community in the northeastern state of...

U.S. Election: The Electoral College's role

Election fever peaks as the two leading candidates Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump vie for the presidency. U.S. voters will cast their ballots on Tuesday, November 5, to choose the countrys 47th president. In the U.S. presidential election, the Electoral College plays a...

Feds warn of growing Russian, Iranian influence on U.S. voters

U.S. federal law enforcement and election security agencies are debunking two new instances of Russian election disinformation on the eve of Election Day. These efforts, aimed at undermining confidence in the U.S. voting process, come with warnings that they could incite violence against election...

Steps being taken to ensure voting rights of expats: Commission Chief to Chief Adviser

The Election Reform Commission is taking appropriate steps to ensure the voting rights of Bangladeshi expatriates. Reform Commission Chief Dr Badiul Alam Majumder conveyed the progress to Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus at a meeting at the Chief Advisers office on Monday. The commission...

Motives behind American celebrities to support presidential candidates

The American presidential elections have intensified. For Muslim American voters, exhausted after observing 13 months of U.S. complicity in the Gaza genocide, choosing between a Harris or Trump presidency feels akin to falling into a dark abyss. Regardless of ones views on the Gaza situation,...

Harris appeals to Christians and Arab Americans, Trump embraces violent diction

Democrat Kamala Harris made her final appeal for the U.S. presidency on Sunday, speaking at a historically Black church and addressing Arab Americans in the key swing state of Michigan. Meanwhile, her Republican opponent Donald Trump used combative language at a rally in Pennsylvania. Public...

BNP Faces Obstacles in Case Dispositions

One of the most pressing challenges facing the BNP, a major political party in Bangladesh, is the legal predicament of its members. Over 6 million leaders and activists, including prominent figures like Begum Khaleda Zia and Tarique Rahman, are entangled in a complex web of legal cases. With...

Harris and Trump focus on Sunbelt states during final weekend push for votes

Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump zeroed in on the Sun Belt on Saturday as they embarked on one last weekend quest to sway every undecided voter in the battleground states. They pitched rival agendas on the economy and more that each insisted is what Americans want, reports UNB....

Botswana Election: BDP ousted from power after 58 years

Botswanas President Mokgweetsi Masisi conceded defeat as preliminary results showed his party had lost its parliamentary majority by a landslide in this weeks election, reports CNN. The defeat on Friday calls an end to six decades long rule of Botswana Democratic Party (BDP). With more than...

Trump sues CBS News for $10 billion

Former U.S. President Donald Trump is suing CBS News for $10 billion in damages, stating the network practiced deceptive conduct for the purpose of election interference in its interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, reports Fox News. Trump attorneys said that the complaint comes due to CBS...

Need to hold polls quickly as only elected govt can make visible changes: Fakhrul

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said their party wants the election to be held promptly, as visible changes in the state are not possible without an elected government. Speaking at a discussion, the BNP leader also said conspirators will get the opportunity to...

Musk ordered to appear in court following $1m election giveaway

A Philadelphia court ordered all parties, including Elon Musk, to attend a court hearing on Thursday in a lawsuit seeking to stop a political action, reports the Guardian. The Philadelphia district attorneys office filed the lawsuit on Monday. It called the giveaway by Musks America Pac, which...

Trump rides garbage truck following Biden’s ‘Garbage’ remark

Donald Trump pulled an election stunt with a garbage truck on Wednesday as the President Joe Biden called the Republicans supporters Floating Garbage, reports AFP. Harris was about to take a long breath as she made a good counter for Trump during her closing argument, but Bidens remark left her...

Tenure of elected government should be 4 years: LGRD Adviser

Local Government adviser Hassan Ariff has said the tenure of governance in the country should be four years instead of the current constitutional provision for five years, reports UNB. If a major global power like the United States can have a four-year term, there should be no issue in having a...

Biden faces backlash upon “floating garbage” remark

The United States president comes Tuesday under fire as he called a Donald Trump supporter Floating Garbage while in a campaign call, reports AFP. Speaking in a video call with the nonprofit Voto Latino, Biden addressed the controversy that erupted after one of Trumps warm-up speakers at a New...