Voters in Bangladesh will head to the polls on Thursday for the country’s first parliamentary elections since former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted following her brutal crackdown on ...

India, Feb. 12 -- Voting is underway in Bangladesh today, February 12. This is a landmark general election that comes after the end of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina's 15-year rule. This is the ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party and allies secured 212 seats while the Jamaat-e-Islami party-led bloc won 77 seats, according to ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — The Bangladesh Nationalist Party headed by the son of a former prime minister was projected to form the next government as the South Asian nation on Thursday held its first ...

Enthusiastic voters line up at a polling center in Dhaka to cast their votes. Credit: Mehedi Hasan After one-and-a-half years of political turbulence – marked by the 2024 student‑led mass uprising ...

On Thursday, Bangladeshis will hold their first election since they overthrew their former leader in mass demonstrations in August 2024. But as NPR's Diaa Hadid reports from the capital, Dhaka, some ...

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has claimed victory in the country’s first election since a student-led uprising that ousted longtime leader Sheikh Hasina in 2024. Unofficial results confirmed ...

In the first election in almost two years since the ouster of Sheikh Hasina's regime in a Gen-Z protest movement, Bangladeshis lined up outside polling booths on Thursday for a return to democracy.

Bangladesh is all set to hold its parliamentary elections next week. This general election comes more than a year after the country witnessed political tensions and a student-led uprising which ...