300 leaders and activists of Awami League barely escape with their lives in the grenade attack which kill 24 people in a party rally at Bangabandhu Avenue rally in Dhaka on August 21, 2004.

The High Court upholds the Election Commission’s decision to hear the dispute on cancelling Abdul Latif Siddique’s parliament membership.

Demanding immediate resignation of the ruling coalition, the mainstream opposition political parties yesterday called dawn-to-dusk hartals on August 24 and 25 to protest the grenade attack on the Awami League (AL) rally in the capital.

A ward-level Jubo League leader, who is shot by unidentified criminals in Dhaka yesterday, died at a hospital in Dhaka.

Leader of the Opposition Shiekh Hasina blamed the BNP-led coalition government for August 21, 2004 bomb and gun-attacks that she had narrowly escaped and demanded its immediate resignation.

"All hell broke loose there, they made it look like doomsday," recalls Motaher Hossain, general secretary of the Krishak League, who was standing barely a yard from the dais raised on a truck when indiscriminate bombs and gunshots rocked the area.

A ruling party activist allegedly involved in the August 15 infighting in Kushtia that left one dead is killed in gunfight.

The government appoints editor of the daily Samakal Golam Sarwar as chairman of the board of directors of Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB).

The district administration in Kushtia cancels licenses of 10 firearms of seven local Awami League (AL) leaders.

The High Court gives split order on Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya’s legality in holding parliament membership with a conviction in graft case.

President Abdul Hamid convenes the seventh session of the 10th parliament on September 1 exercising his power bestowed upon him by article 72 (1) of the Constitution.

A case has been filed against Kushtia unit Swechchhasebak League general secretary following yesterday’s clash between two groups of ruling party supporters that left one killed.

At least 40 were injured when ruling party’s youth wing Jubo League swooped on a procession brought out by the school students protesting extortion today.

Public Administration Minister Syed Ashraful Islam says that death sentences will surely be executed after bringing back the fugitive killers of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

A ward-level activist of Jubo Dal, youth front of BNP, is allegedly stabbed to death in broad daylight by miscreants in Chittagong city.

Awami League leader Mahbubur Rahman Gama, who sustained bullet injuries in Badda last night, dies at a hospital in Dhaka Friday morning.

Bangladesh appears as a safe haven for MPs of the ruling party as they tend to enjoy unlimited immunity and freedom.

A Dhaka court takes cognisance of the double murder charge against Bakhtiar Alam Rony, son of ruling Awami League lawmaker Pinu Khan.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will visit London this week for “medical purposes” where her elder son Tarique Rahman has been staying since 2008.

Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam slams the civil society for “making student politics tough”.