The 60-year-old son of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, Tarique Rahman, who returned to Dhaka after 17 years of self-imposed exile, is widely seen as the front-runner in Thursday's poll.

Bangladesh election LIVE updates: Voting is currently underway in Bangladesh’s national election. This is the first election since former PM Sheikh Hasina's ouster and Khaleda Zia's death. BNP frontrunner Tarique Rahman has cast his vote at Gulshan Model School and College Centre in Dhaka.

Bangladesh is voting in its first general election since a student-led uprising toppled Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year rule in August 2024. What began as pro.

The security has been heightened across Bangladesh for Thursday's polling, with the officials deploying around 9 lakh security personnel, including many teams of army, to maintain law and order in the entire country.

Bangladesh votes in high-stakes polls without the Awami League, alongside an 84-point reform referendum, under near 1 million security deployment.

By Tora Agarwala DHAKA, Feb 10 (Reuters) - China’s influence in Bangladesh, boosted by the 2024 ouster of New Delhi‑aligned leader Sheikh Hasina, is likely to deepen after this week's election, although politicians and analysts say India is too large a neighbour to be sidelined completely.

Bangladesh is holding national elections for the first time since 2024, when a student movement ousted the prime minister.

"You guys in India haven't understood Jamaat," is what I have been told by members of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and some political experts in the last many years that I have been writing on Bangladeshi politics and society. I will be honest here.