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.
Two more arson victims, who suffered severe burns in separate firebomb attacks in Chandpur and Magura, die at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid reiterates that the HSC and equivalent exams will begin on April 1 as per schedule
The countrymen will get a relief from hartal on a working day for the second time since February 1 as the BNP-led 20-party alliance will not extend the shutdown
At least two people injured in crude bomb blasts at TSC on Dhaka University campus, while miscreants torch a bus at Shahbagh intersection
A bus was torched inside Jahangirnagar University campus early today ahead of the kick-off to BNP-led 20-party alliance’s fresh spell of hartal
Four including three of the nine who suffered severe burns in the mindless petrol bomb attack on a truck in Magura succumbed to their injuries at DMCH
Two policemen are injured as alleged pro-hartal picketers hurl several crude bombs at Dainik Bangla intersection in Paltan of Dhaka
BNP-led 20-party alliance calls fresh spell of 72-hour countrywide hartal from tomorrow protesting alleged arrest of BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed, a party press statement says
I had a dream, which is not unusual given the time that we get to sleep during the traffic jam, which is the hallmark of the ongoing hartal imposed by the opposition out of parliament.
IGP AKM Shahidul Hoque says incidents of sabotage have been on the decrease due to police actions
