Interpol issues red notice upon BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman in connection with August 21, 2004 grenade attack on Awami League rally that left 24 people dead.The name and details including photograph of Tarique, now staying in London, are posted as a wanted person on the Interpol website.

Awami League and Bangladesh Chhatra League activists allegedly carry out an attack on BNP activists in Chittagong during inauguration of BNP’s election offices.

The decision on army deployments ahead of the city corporation polls of Dhaka and Chittagong will be taken on April 19, the chief election commissioner said.

Awami League-backed mayoral candidate for DNCC elections Annisul Huq announces manifesto promising to make the city clean and green.

BNP’s youth front Jubo Dal’s President Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal walks out on bail while the party’s Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi was denied bail.

BNP-tent aspirant Abdus Salam, sacked advisor to Jatiya Party chief Bobby Hajjaj and ruling party’s Sarah Begum Kabari pull out from Dhaka’s mayoral race.

Dhaka Nagorik Samaj, a platform of professionals, extend their support to the Awami League sponsored mayoral hopefuls for the Dhaka city corporation elections.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has returned to her residence embracing failure and defeat after staying 92 days in her office aiming to topple the government.

The mayoral and councilor aspirants launch campaign for the Dhaka and Chittagong city corporations poll.

ON August 21, 2004, 23 Awami League leaders and workers were brutally killed in a premeditated grenade attack in a rally on Bangabandhu Avenue addressed by the then Leader of the Opposition and Awami League, Sheikh Hasina.

A day after BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia returned to her Gulshan residence, the government Monday evening redeploys police personnel in front of it to ensure her security.

The High Court stayed for a month, a three-day remand of BNP joint Secretary General Rizvi Ahmed under police custody in a vandalism case.

Two mayor aspirants of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) polls have been served with separate show cause notices for violating electoral code of conducts.

Supreme Court upholds a High Court order that granted bail to Humayun, son of former Awami League lawmaker Khan Tipu Sultan, in a murder case of his wife Shamarukh Mahajabin

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said local government elections should be held in partisan manner and the related laws should be amended to do so.

Pro-BNP academic Prof Emajuddin Ahmed has warned the Election Commission of dire consequences if it fails to hold the upcoming Dhaka and Chittagong city corporation polls in a free and fair manner.

Seven people are sentenced to death and another to life term imprisonment for killing an Awami League man in 2006

20-party calls 48-hour hartal from Monday demanding return of missing Salahuddin Ahmed. Dhaka, Ctg to remain out of purview.

Ten mayor aspirants submit their nomination papers to contest the Dhaka north and south city corporation polls today, the last day for submitting nomination papers

AJM Nasir Uddin and M Manjur Alam Manju, the Awami League- and BNP-backed mayor aspirants, submit their nomination papers to contest the forthcoming Chittagong City Corporation polls slated for April 28.