11.   Authorities had called Sunday on all available lawyers and bailiffs to report to polling centres lacking supervisors.

12.   But on leaving the polling centre, some young women had already found a way to remove the stain, using ordinary household bleach.

13.   The official BSS news agency said one hour before the polling ended nationwide that thousands of men and women were enthusiastically crowding polling centres.

14.   Thousands of men and women were seen crowding the polling centres.

15.   Thousands of men and women were seen enthusiastically crowding polling centres nationwide.

16.   Thousands of troops and paramilitary-backed armed police were patrolling deserted streets and guarding polling centres in Dhaka.

17.   Troops were called in at a suburban polling centre early Wednesday after several crude bombs exploded nearby, officials said, adding that there were no injuries or damage.

18.   Voting was postponed until Sunday at two polling centres in Rauthat due to reports of massive rigging and widespread electoral malpractice by ruling NC party activists, they said.

19.   With troops on machine gun-fitted trucks patrolling streets or standing guard outside some sensitive polling centres, more people came out on the streets around mid-morning.

20.   Women, many of them from slum areas, crowded polling centres along with men displaying lapel pins of their favourite party.