Day: December 30, 2018

    Voting in the 11th national election concluded at 4 pm on Sunday amid allegations of irregularities, including overnight stuffing of ballot boxes and capturing of polling stations, and sporadic violence in different parts of the country, leaving 13 people dead. In Noakhali, Nurun Nabi, an Ansar member, was shot dead by some miscreants at Tulachara Primary School polling station of Noakhali-3 constituency, said presiding officer Prof Dr Suchon Chowdhury. In Chattogram, Ahmed Kabir, 45, an activist of Jatiya Party, was killed in a clash between Awami League and Jatiya Party activists in Banskhali upazila early in the morning. In Rangamati, Bashir Uddin, general secretary of Kashkhali union Jubo League unit, was killed in an attack allegedly by some BNP activists at K...

    Accusing the ruling party men of stuffing ballot boxes overnight well before the start of voting, Jatiya Oikyafront chief Dr Kamal Hossian on Sunday voiced concern over the peaceful holding of the national election. He came up with the remarks while talking to reporters after casting his vote at Voqarunnisa Noon School centre in the morning. Reports have it from outside Dhaka that votes have been cast overnight unlawfully depriving the voters of their right which is very disturbing, he said. Millions of lives had been laid down in 1971 and thereafter in the Liberation War and different democratic movements for establishing the voting right, Kamal said. Through casting votes, he said, people exercise their rights to the state. Dr Kamal said there are around 160 mi...