At least 10 journalists were injured as ruling party activists allegedly attacked a motel in a central Bangladesh town when they were covering this week's national election, a senior journalist said Tuesday.

Bangladesh: At least 10 journalists attacked ahead of polls

Thousands of army troops were deployed across Bangladesh on Monday to provide security and help conduct parliamentary elections on December 30, amid concerns that violence could happen.

Thousands of troops deployed in Bangladesh ahead of general elections

The United States has urged Bangladesh to do more to ensure a free election, blaming government foot-dragging on issuing visas for the cancellation of an international monitoring mission.

Disappointed with Bangladesh over inability to provide visas to poll monitoring team: US

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WION Dispatch: Thousands of troops deployed in Bangladesh ahead of general elections

Bangladesh will seal off refugee camps housing about one million Rohingya Muslims for three days around the country's tense general election this week, officials said Monday.

Bangladesh polls: Rohingya camps to be sealed off during election

High alert will be sounded along the international border in Tripura, hours before the Bangladesh general election, as the BSF steps up efforts to avert any "untoward situation" in the poll-bound country, a senior official said here Monday.

BSF to issue high alert along Tripura border ahead of Bangladesh polls

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina heads to the polls in Bangladesh this week on course for a historic victory, while her ailing opponent faces an uncertain future in a colonial-era Dhaka jail.

PM Sheikh Hasina on top in poll battle of 'Bangladesh Begums'

Bangladesh's Election Commission on Sunday allowed Jamaat-e-Islami, a crucial ally of jailed former prime minister Khaleda Zia's Opposition BNP, to contest the December 30 general elections, two months after it scraped the fundamentalist party's registration.

Bangladesh EC allows hardline Islamist party to contest upcoming general election 

Bangladesh on Sunday described as "disheartening" a US statement that criticised Dhaka's "inability" to grant visas to an American poll observer group to monitor the December 30 general election.

Bangladesh slams US statement over polls observers

Bangladesh's main opposition website has been shut down, the party said Saturday, amid accusation the government is muzzling dissent ahead of next week's general election.

Bangladesh opposition website shut down ahead of polls: Report

The United States has said it was disappointment over Bangladesh's inability to issue visas and other credentials to a group of international observers "within the timeframe necessary" for monitoring the general election later this month.

Disappointed with delay by Bangladesh in issuing visas to election observers: US

Bangladesh will collect and test samples of Johnson & Johnson's Baby Powder for asbestos in a couple of days, its main testing authority said on Friday, after a Reuters report last Friday that the firm knew for decades that cancer-causing asbestos could be found in the product.

Bangladesh to collect, test samples of Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder

Bangladesh’s ruling Awami League unveiled its election manifesto on Tuesday, making sweeping promises to eradicate poverty and boost the economy as it seeks to retain power for a third straight term.

Bangladesh ruling Awami party promises growth in bid for third term

Bangladesh's main opposition group promised on Monday to remove curbs on free speech and the media and to rein in the police if it unseats Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from her decade-long rule in this month's national election.

Bangladeshi opposition pledges to remove media curbs, raise pay, freeze energy prices

The Bangladesh government has decided to build a war memorial in Chittagong’s Bhramanbaria to pay homage to Indian soldiers who lost their lives in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.

Bangladesh to build war memorial dedicated to Indian soldiers killed in 1971 Liberation War

The Bangladesh government on Sunday felicitated Indian soldiers who were killed in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. The government felicitated the families of 12 Indian soldiers -- seven martyrs from the Indian Army, one from the Navy, two from the Air Force and two from the BSF.

Bangladesh felicitates Indian soldiers who died in 1971 Liberation War

A senior Bangladesh opposition leader's motorcade was attacked Friday after he visited a mausoleum in Mirpur to pay tributes to intellectuals Killed in the 1971 independence war with Pakistan.

Senior Bangla opposition leader's motorcade attacked in Mirpur

Fresh from jail for dissent, and celebrated by Time magazine for fearless journalism, Shahidul Alam is not hiding as his native Bangladesh approaches an election he fears could be rigged.

Top dissident warns Bangladesh at 'critical juncture'

With less than a month to go to a general election, many journalists in Bangladesh say they are living in fear of ever-tightening media laws and engaging in self-censorship as a result.

In fear of the state, Bangladeshi journalists self-censor as election approaches

A leaked seven-minute phone conversation between Bangladesh Nationalist Party BNP leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain and a purported staffer of the Pakistani spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence has been reported in the Bangladeshi media.

Leaked phone conversation seems to suggest Pak might be meddling in Bangladesh elections

Messages of solidarity poured in Wednesday from around the world on the one-year anniversary of the arrest of two Myanmar Reuters journalists who exposed a massacre of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state.

'Thumbs up' pics for Myanmar Reuters reporters as they mark year in jail

Bangladesh's telecoms regulator shut down dozens of online news portals for several hours on Monday, citing security reasons, as officials scrutinise hundreds of sites before a parliamentary election this month.

Bangladesh briefly shuts dozens of online news sites, citing security concerns

The Bangladesh High Court on Tuesday delivered a split verdict over whether imprisoned former prime minister and main opposition BNP chief Khaleda Zia should be allowed to contest the upcoming general election even as campaigning began for the December 30 polls.

Bangladesh High Court splits its judgement on permitting BNP's Khaleda Zia to contest polls

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