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 crude bombs go off at Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue in Dhaka as BNP-led 20-party alliance is observing first day of the 72-hour nationwide hartal (shutdown)
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia should be charged with sedition for her ‘anti-state movement’, says Finance Minister AMA Muhith
BNP-led 20-party alliance calls a fresh spell of 72-hour countrywide hartal from Sunday morning protesting “conspiracy to starve its chief Khaleda Zia to death”
Due to continuous blockades and hartals, the country's economy is facing severe loss. Innocent people are dying all around us, properties are getting vandalised, schools are remaining closed.
It has been more than a month since the anti-government blockade started. With it came continuous spells of hartal, and while Molotov cocktails have become part-and-parcel of the 20-party alliance strategy, it appears that firearms are about to join the fray. The police have recently unearthed an illegal racket of arms whereby dealers are using children as arms carriers.
BNP-led 20-party alliance threatens to go for “law flouting programme and non-cooperation movement” against the government’s “repressive acts”
Passenger suffers splinter injuries as miscreants hurled crude bomb at a bus in Mohammadpur area of Dhaka
THE pressure was getting to me. Tomorrow was the last day of my exams, and if I did well I'd have a good feeling during the entire vacation.
