4 vehicles torched in Ctg, Gazipur
Alleged pickets torch and vandalise four vehicles in Chittagong and Gazipur during the countrywide daylong hartal enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami.
4 arson victims die at DMCH
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
Violence decreasing: IGP
IGP AKM Shahidul Hoque says incidents of sabotage have been on the decrease due to police actions
Rangpur hartal progressing peacefully
The 48-hour hartal enforced by the Jatiya Party in Rangpur division is progressing peacefully today.
...JP calls hartal in Rangpur div for tomorrow
The Jatiya Party has called a 48-hour hartal (shutdown) in Rangpur division for tomorrow demanding release of its party chief HM Ershad and protesting blasts at its district party office.
...Jamaat calls hartal for Sunday
The Jamaat-e-Islami yesterday announced it will hold a gayebana janaza for its assistant secretary general, war criminal Abdul Quader Mollah today and enforce a countrywide shutdown on Sunday.
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4 vehicles torched in Ctg, Gazipur
Alleged pickets torch and vandalise four vehicles in Chittagong and Gazipur during the countrywide daylong hartal enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami.
4 arson victims die at DMCH
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
Violence decreasing: IGP
IGP AKM Shahidul Hoque says incidents of sabotage have been on the decrease due to police actions
5 burnt in Feni firebomb attack
Five people suffer burns as miscreants hurled firebombs at a truck in Dagonbhuiyan upazila of Feni
Magura fisheries office set on fire
Miscreants set fire to the fisheries office in Magura town and exploded at least seven crude bombs there early Monday, police said.
Beyond finger-pointing
MUCH more is at stake in Bangladeshi politics than fooling ourselves by fooling the United States. Both The Daily Star articles, by Mahfuz Anam (December 13) and Mirza Azizul Islam (December 15) correctly highlight the economic toll that incessant hartals and stoppages have been exacting. Much more than our pockets are being victimised.
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Poultry farms in feed crisis for hartals, blockades

Hartals, blockades make timely textbook distribution uncertain
