Elections

by Rita Bhowmick (Dhaka Bureau) Discussions have commenced regarding the potential increase of reserved seats for women in Bangladesh’s National Parliament to 100, aiming to ensure effective participation and empowerment. Simultaneously, a proposal has been put forward for ‘direct elections’…

To ensure meaningful empowerment of women in politics and an effective role at the decision-making level The demand for direct elections to reserved women’s seats in the National Parliament of Bangladesh is gaining momentum as a crucial step toward ensuring…

Guwahati: Polling begins in the Himalayan nation of Nepal to elect a new Parliament in Kathmandu amid tight security cover, where nearly 19 million Nepali electors are eligible to vote. 23,112 polling centres erected under 10,963 polling stations in all…

Nepal, sandwiched between two populous countries namely India and Tibet/China, goes for national polls on Thursday and the political observers across the Asian region are looking for Pushpa Kamal Dahal (popularly known as Prachanda), a communist leader who led a…

The Landscape of the 13th Parliament and Barriers to Equality by Rita Bhowmick (Dhaka Bureau) In the political history of Bangladesh, women played a pioneering role in the ’24 Mass Uprising. From the streets of the capital to the courageous…

Even all political parties, not to speak of the millions of fans and well-wishers of Assam’s revered cultural icon Zubeen Garg, continue to preach against sparing the maverick singer’s name in politics. His mysterious death last year in a foreign…

By Burhanuddin (Dhaka Bureau) After a decade and a half of street struggles, legal battles, and a history of sacrifice, a massive brigade of former Student Dal (Chhatra Dal) leaders has secured their place in the country’s legislature. In the…

by Asif Showkat Kallol (Dhaka Bureau) Bangladesh’s ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has decided to enforce a ‘one family, one candidate’ policy in the allocation of women’s reserved seats in the country’s 13th parliament, a move party leaders say is aimed…

As Bangladesh has constituted a new government under the leadership of  Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) after a largely fair and peaceful national election on 12 February 2026, the people of eastern India (the region virtually embraces the poverty stricken country…

by Dimitra Staikou The 2026 national elections in Bangladesh were not merely a parliamentary realignment. They evolved into a social referendum on gender, authority, and the limits of ideological revival within a rapidly transforming Muslim-majority democracy. While the Bangladesh Nationalist…