August 21 grenade attack
More attacks may happen
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday cautioned people about a repeat of carnage like that of August 15, 1975, as those who don’t like the country’s development would not sit idle.
A dark day in our history
We must never allow a recurrence of the August 21 tragedy
An eyewitness revisits gruesome grenade attack after 18 years
Today marks the 18th year of the heinous grenade blasts in Awami League's rally, which took 24 lives including prominent politician Ivy Rahman.
“BNP brought in Dalim, Rashid to plot Aug 21 attack”
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said that the August 21 grenade attack was carried out under direct patronage of the then BNP-Jamaat government to kill her and wipe out the top leadership of Awami League 18 years ago.
August 21 grenade attack: Living itself is now an ordeal
Even though 18 years have passed, Mahbuba Parvin is still unable to put herself back together after the trauma she faced in the August 21 grenade attacks on a rally by the Awami League.
Perpetrators of Aug 21 grenade attack will be punished: PM
Accusing the past BNP-Jamaat government and Begum Khaleda Zia and her elder son Tarique Rahman of perpetrating the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally in the capital, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asserts that punishment would be inflicted to those responsible for the heinous attack.
Aug 21 Grenade Attack Cases / HC accepts convicts’ appeals for hearing
The High Court accepts for hearing forty four appeals filed by the convicted accused of the August 21 grenade attack cases.
Verdict in Aug 21 Cases: BNP reacts to observations
Court's observations in the August 21 grenade attack case verdicts “exactly reflect the ruling Awami League's political speeches”, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said yesterday.
Cops locate Harris among 8 fugitives of Aug 21 grenade attack
Eighteen of the 49 accused in the August 21, 2004 grenade attack cases are still at large and police have been able to know whereabouts of eight of them.
Aug 21 carnage: Who did it? (video)
The gruesome killing on August 21, 2004 was one of the most shocking political crimes in the country's history. But what is more shocking is the list of the culprits behind the attack that has come into light after latest investigations.
August 21 carnage: Living with pain and trauma (video)
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.
Protest hartals on Aug 24, 25
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.
Hasina blames govt, asks it to quit
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.
Witness Account: When all hell broke loose
"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.
2.76 lakh govt posts remain vacant: Minister
State Minister for Public Administration Ismat Ara Sadeq announces in parliament that some 2.76 lakh posts have remained vacant with different ministries, divisions and offices of the government.
