Let the truth be known: no one has any idea what’s going to happen to Bangladeshi politics.
istomorrowhartal.com, a 2015 website that offers timely information on hartals (strikes) and blockades in Bangladesh, has resurfaced again in 2023 in midst of the ongoing blockades. The service was initially set up during a period of frequent hartals by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and has recently updated its offerings to include information on the latest blockades by the same party.
There is no doubt that the country is heading towards a long-drawn confrontational politics ahead of the election.
In Dhaka, the designated streets occupied by BNP looked like a battlefield.
At least seven foreign missions in Bangladesh have issued a statement calling on all stakeholders to exercise restraint, refrain from violence and work together to create the conditions for free, fair, participatory and peaceful elections.
Saturday’s violence may only be a premonition of much worse days to come
No long-distance buses left or entered Dhaka since morning.
The six-hour hartal enforced by Bandarban district Awami League protesting the murder of its leader ends peacefully.
Sound bursts have been used to disperse pro-shutdown activists in Dhaka city, during a pro-left sponsored half-day hartal protesting retail power tariff hike. The hartal has had little observable effect on daily city life.
Three people, including a woman and her daughter, have been burnt as miscreants firebomb a commuter train in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj
Miscreants torched at least eight vehicles at different parts of Dhaka and Narayanganj today
FOR the last 50 days, pessimism has gripped the citizenry because of the hartal and oborodh enforced by BNP-led alliance.
CAPTAIN'S log, star date 4698.3. Hartal -- the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Bangladesh. Its continuing mission -- to seek out new strifes and new abominations, to explore strange new ways of self destruction, to boldly go where no (sane) man has gone before.”
BNP-led 20-party alliance threatens that it would enforce a tougher programmes including countrywide hartal from Sunday if the government does not realise its demand for holding a fresh inclusive national election
Ban Ki-moon express concerned over the rising tensions and continuing violence in Bangladesh and calls for a peaceful resolution to the crisis.
City dwellers in Dhaka came out to the streets and are performing their daily activities even though BNP-led 20-party alliance is observing the fifth day of its 120-hour hartal
A pedestrian died in a crude bomb explosion in the port city of Chittagong.
Police detain a leader and an activist of Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal, youth front of BNP, from Wari in Dhaka.
Miscreants set fire to a passenger bus in Shamibag area of Gendaria in Dhaka
