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.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says that the country has incurred a loss of over Tk 1.20 lakh crore in the hartals and nonstop blockade since January 6.
Mahmudur Rahman Manna’s family files a general diary with Banani Police Station after detectives denied his detention.
BNP-led 20-party alliance extend its countrywide ongoing hartal till 6:00am Friday protesting what it said the killings of opposition leaders and activists in the name of crossfire and for the filing of false cases against the alliance leaders
WEEK after week has passed by since we have been living in a state of terror. Blockades and strikes appear to reign supreme in the lives of millions of helpless people in the country.
BNP announces to honour people, being killed in the hands of different government forces in the ongoing movement, as “freedom fighters of this generation”
People from different professions form a human chain at Gulshan-2 intersection in Dhaka protesting against BNP-led 20-party alliance’s ongoing countrywide hartal and blockade
Chittagong police arrests three leaders of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, on charge of conspiracy to blow up the depots of state-run oil companies -- Padma, Meghna and Jamuna.
With the BNP-Jamaat allies continuing to enforce blockade and hartal for the 44th day on February 18, the country has descended into deep chaos, uncertainty and unimaginable distress. We have got to be worried and perturbed after witnessing the scale of tragedies, lives lost by burning, destruction and losses inflicted on the economy in a free Bangladesh that we liberated at the cost 3 million lives. Since January 6, the country, from Teknaf to Tetulia, has turned into a theatre of unabated violence and destruction.
BNP-led alliance calls for another spell of 72-hour countrywide hartal from Sunday morning demanding fresh elections under a nonparty administration
Miscreants set fire to a bus in Louhajang upazila of Munshiganj, in the last hours of the 120hr hartal by BNP-led 20-party alliance.
