At least four are injured as miscreants attack motorcade of BNP chief Khaleda Zia after she went to campaign for her party-endorsed mayoral candidate Tabith Awal at Karwan Bazar.

Dhaka city is in a festive mood. Festoons and streamers deck the roads and alleys. Mayoral candidates are on whirlpool campaigning. Commissioner candidates are bringing out support processions. It all matches what democracy should look like, except what happened yesterday.

Condemning sexual assaults on women by rowdy men during Pahela Baishakh celebrations on Dhaka University campus, Awami League-backed mayoral candidate Annisul Huq says he has a plan to bring the entire city under CCTV surveillance if he is elected.

At least six people including an officer-in-charge is bullet injured as gun of a local Awami League leader went off “accidentally” during a rally of the ruling party's Presidium Member Kazi Zafarullah in Bhanga upazila of Faridpur.

Rajshahi city Awami League General Secretary Dablu Sarkar scuffles with Vice-Chancellor Prof Mizan Uddin at the latter’s office over recruiting ruling party men at Rajshahi University.

Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of ruling Awami League, suspended five of its leaders and activists of Jahangirnagar University unit on charge of physically assaulting an indigenous student.

We can thank Khaleda Zia and her party BNP for at least one thing that they have contributed to Bangladesh politics: They have made hartal redundant for this country.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina vows to execute the remaining war crimes trial verdicts saying Bangladesh war criminals committed much more heinous crimes than Iraq’s Saddam Hussein.

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.