Annisul mayor of Dhaka north, Khokon of south
The election commission has unofficially declared Annisul Huq as the mayor of Dhaka north city corporation while Sayeed Khokon of Dhaka south .
According to the results from 1093 voting centres in the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), AL-backed mayoral candidate Annisul polled 4, 60,117 votes while his rival BNP-backed candidate Tabith Awal got 3,25,080 votes.
AL-backed Nasir new mayor of Chittagong
Awami League-backed mayoral candidate AJM Nasir Uddin has won in the Chittagong City Corporation elections, which BNP boycotted alleging vote rigging.
Unofficial results from all 719 polling centers showed that the ruling party backed Nasir bagged 4,75,361 votes while his rival BNP-backed M Manjur Alam got 3,04,837 votes
PM: City polls held fairly
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the elections to Dhaka and Chittagong City Corporations have been held in a fair and peaceful manner.
She made the statement while talking to the journalists after providing compensation to the affected transport owners of the recent political agitation at her office in the capital’s Tejgaon area on Wednesday afternoon.
UN: Probe city polls ‘allegations’
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called to investigate into all allegations of Dhaka and Chittagong City Corporations polls.
UN Deputy Spokesman Farhan Haq said this in a press briefing on Tuesda
Quick strikes restrict Bangladesh to 332
After losing quick wickets, Bangladesh scored 332 runs aganist Pakistan in the second day of the test match at Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium in Khulna on Wednesday.
Bangladesh was all out for 332 runs in 120 overs.
Saudi king names new heir to throne
Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Wednesday named his powerful Interior Minister as heir to the throne and a son as second in line, under a shakeup that also saw the world's longest-serving foreign minister replaced.
A royal decree removed Crown Prince Moqren bin Abdul Aziz bin Saud and replaced him with Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who headed a crackdown on Al-Qaeda a decade ago.
Nigerian army 'rescues nearly 300'
The Nigerian military says it has rescued 200 girls and 93 women from an area where the Islamist militant group Boko Haram is active.
However, it said the girls abducted from a school in Chibok in April 2014 were not among them.
Indonesia executions spark anger
An Indonesian firing squad executed eight convicted drug-traffickers from several countries on Wednesday, prompting Australia to recall its envoy to Jakarta and bringing an angry reaction from Brazil.
The leaders of Australia and Brazil had made personal appeals for clemency for their citizens among the group, raising the stakes for Indonesia's new president, Joko Widodo, who has stepped up the pace of executions since coming to office.