Hartal
AL leader murder: Bandarban hartal ends peacefully
The six-hour hartal enforced by Bandarban district Awami League protesting the murder of its leader ends peacefully.
Sound bursts used to thwart pro-hartal activists
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.
Power tariff hike: Left-leaning parties call hartal on Nov 30
Left-leaning political parties call countrywide half-day hartal on November 30 protesting power tariff hike.
JU to hold C unit entry test tomorrow amid hartal
The authorities of Jahangirnagar University (JU) have decided to continue the ongoing entry test tomorrow for the 2017-18 academic session amid the countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal called by Jamaat-e-Islami.
Jamaat calls hartal for Thursday
Jamaat-e-Islami calls countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal for Thursday protesting arrest and remand of its ameer and top eight other leaders.
After hartal, leftists threaten to besiege ministry
After sponsoring a half-day shutdown in capital Dhaka; left-leaning political parties threaten to besiege the power ministry protesting the latest gas tariff hike.
Jamaat’s 24-hr hartal progressing peacefully
The 24-hour countrywide hartal enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami is progressing peacefully with very little hindrance to public life.
HSC exams deferred for Jamaat hartal
As the Jamaat-e-Islami enforces a countrywide 24-hour hartal from 5:00am today over the execution of its chief Motiur
Tomorrow’s HSC exams moved to May 20 for hartal
Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examination scheduled for tomorrow is shifted to Friday, May 20, in view of the hartal sponsored by Jamaat-e-Islami.
24-hr hartal underway, Jamaat man held
An alleged activist of Jamaat-e-Islami was detained while trying to bring out a procession in Dhaka during the party-enforced 24-hour countrywide hartal.
HSC exams rescheduled for hartal
The government reschedules the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations scheduled for Sunday due to the 24-hour hartal called by Jamaat-e-Islami.
Jamaat calls hartal for Sunday
Jamaat-e-Islami has called a 24-hour countrywide hartal (shutdown) for Sunday after the Supreme Court upheld death penalty awarded to the party’s chief Motiur Rahman Nizami for his 1971 war crimes.
Dhaka traffic suffers in hartal
Students’ blockade protesting the murder of Tonu at Shahbagh intersection, one of the major intersections in Dhaka, created acute traffic congestion in the capital.
Shahbagh blocked during students’ hartal for Tonu
Student bodies blockade Dhaka's key intersection Shahbagh to begin the countrywide hartal clamped protesting government's failure to arrest the killers of Comilla college student Sohagi Jahan Tonu.
Torch march for Tonu tomorrow, hartal the day after
Students will march with torch tomorrow in favour of the countrywide hartal on April 25 protesting government’s failure to catch the killers of Comilla college student Sohagi Jahan Tonu.
Tonu killing: HC bench drops plea for judicial enquiry
For the second time in two days, a High Court bench drops a writ petition that sought a judicial enquiry into the murder of Comilla college student Sohagi Jahan Tonu.
Hartal progresses in Thanchi over killing of 3 cattle traders
The daylong hartal, enforced by Bangali Byabasaye, an organisation of businesspeople from Bengali settlers, protesting the killing of three cattle traders, who were kidnapped by miscreants here on Friday, is going on peacefully in Thanchi upazila.
Tonu killing: Students threaten hartal Apr 25
Students have threatened a half-day countrywide hartal for April 25 if killers of Comilla college student Sohagi Jahan Tonu are not arrested. Also, they have threatened to pull down the government if it remains indifferent in regard to serving justice for Tonu – the girl who was found dead near Comilla cantonment on March 20.
Jamaat withdraws hartal after Islam retained as state religion
Jamaat-e-Islami withdraws countrywide hartal after the High Court rejects a writ that challenged legality of Islam as state religion of Bangladesh.
