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High turnout in historic US polls
Obama, McCain keep fingers crossed as voting progresses
Democrat Barack Obama is joining the nation's earliest voters in filling in a ballot in his historic presidential contest with Republican John McCain.
BNP weighs gains from Jamaat
Also assessing Jamaat success in 3 polls, impact of possible AL-JP alliance
In a quite surprising move, BNP is now evaluating Jamaat's performance in the past three parliamentary elections and also its own gains from forming its electoral alliance with the religion based party, said BNP insiders.
BNP, Jamaat get EC certificate
AL's copy ready; poll symbols of 20 parties allocated
Six more political parties yesterday received certificates of registration with the Election Commission (EC) as parliamentary party. They are BNP, Jatiya Party (JP-Ershad), Bikalpadhara Bangladesh, Workers Party of Bangladesh, Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) and Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD-Inu).
AL grassroots to send nominations by Nov 9
Little change in January 22 list expected
Awami League's (AL) parliamentary nominations will be largely based on the list prepared prior to the stalling of the January 22, 2007 election with minor changes in it.