She has been living with around 1,800 splinters in her body, including two in her brain, for the last 11 years. All of the splinters remain inoperable to this day.

In a major development, South Africa yesterday agreed to send back Maulana Mohammad Tajuddin, a key accused in the August 21, 2004, grenade attack cases, to Bangladesh.

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.

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.

Harkat-ul-Jihad (Huji) leader Mufti Abdul Hannan and two others, without influence from law enforcers, confessed their involvement in the August 21 grenade attack, former Dhaka additional chief metropolitan magistrate Sultan Mahmud, who recorded the trio's confessional statement, told a Dhaka court on May 5, 2015.

Joj Mia on September 30, 2014 narrates before a Dhaka court how he has been forced by three CID officials into confessing falsely that he took part in the August 21 grenade attack.

The mother of petty criminal Joj Mia, who was falsely implicated in the August 21 grenade attack cases, appears before a Dhaka court on September 8, 2014 and seeks justice for the harassment of her son.

A Dhaka court on May 8, 2014 frames charges against 13 members of banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (Huji), including its top leader Mufti Abdul Hannan, in connection with the CPB rally bomb blast case in 2001.

Why police offered to give her money to meet her family needs was not clear to Jobeda Khatun, mother of Joj Mia. An unknown, petty criminal, Joj Mia was to appear as a much-talked-about character in 2005 in connection with the August 21, 2004 grenade blasts at an Awami League rally in the capital.

2004 [BNP in Power] Aug 21 * At 5:22pm, Islamic militant outfit Huji carries out the grenade attack on an Awami League rally in Dhaka, killing 24 people and injuring 300 more. Sheikh Hasina narrowly escapes assassination. * Attackers leave the spot safely, reportedly with the help of the administration and the law enforcement agencies. * Hasina blames the BNP-led government for the attack and asks it to quit. * AL activists hold angry protests.

Walking through the busy, rain-soaked Bangabandhu Avenue, it was almost impossible to picture what had happened here 10 years ago.

A prosecution witness on March 11, 2014 says a leader of the banned militant organisation Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami (Huji) has described the grenades hurled at an Awami League rally in 2004 as “breakfast for Sheikh Hasina”.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has made a very dangerous insinuation that "unknown faces" were seen in the joint forces during the recent operation against Jamaat men in Satkhira, without bothering to give any proof in her speech.