If Dhaka had a national sport, it wouldn’t be cricket—it would be protests.

Workers of Birds Group, a textile maker in Bangladesh, withdrew their blockade at the Baipail intersection of the Nabinagar-Chandra highway in Dhaka’s Ashulia yesterday after being assured that all their arrears will soon be paid..At around 9:30am last Monday, workers of Birds Group blocke

Political parties must find a constructive way to end this impasse

As the streets of our country vibrate with the thunderous procession by the political parties and daily commute is hampered due to the sporadic blockades, not to mention the incidents of vehicles being torched that we hear about, the ongoing political unrest presents a challenging landscape for office goers and businesses alike. So, is it time for us to reconsider transitioning to remote work?

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.

Parbatya Chhatragram Janasanghati Samity (PCJSS-Santu Larma) has been observing a 36-hour road and waterway blockade in Rangamati demanding reelection at a polling centre at Bhushanchhara union of Barkal upazila of the district.

Students of the Rajshahi University blocked the Dhaka-Rajshahi highway for three hours demanding justice for Professor AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will surrender before a Dhaka court and seek bail in a case filed for an arson attack on a passenger bus in the capital's Jatrabari in January last year.

March 30 was a terrible day to be on the road. Commuters were stuck for hours on end as major roads were blocked due to three reasons...

At least 10 people injured as police use force to disperse a road blockade of unemployed nurses in Dhaka city’s key intersection Shahbagh.

At least a dozen people are detained from a demonstration in Dhaka’s Shahbagh demanding a raise in the age limit for entering government service.

Traffic on Dhaka-Chittagong highway has returned to normal after one-and-half hour following the death of a college student in Comilla yesterday.

The countrywide blockade, called by the BNP-led 20-party alliance last year, is still on. It is hard to believe that the opposition alliance is yet to officially withdraw the programme through any announcement, party insiders have said.

The month of January has come again, starting a new year with new hopes and new promises. But it makes no difference to those stuck in a circle of pain, sorrow and uncertainties resulted from the unprecedented violence last year.

The daylong blockade enforced by Parbatya Chhatragram Janasanghati Samity (PCJSS-Santu Larma) in Rangamati protesting the rigging in municipality polls is going on peacefully.

Bangladesh offers transit facility to Nepal through its Chittagong and Mongla seaports for importing petroleum products from third countries to address its acute fuel crisis triggered due to the blockade at the Nepal-India border.

Shortages of fuel, food, medicines and vaccines are putting more than three million infants at risk of death or disease as winter begins in Nepal, the UN children's fund (Unicef) has warned.

At least four demonstrators have been killed since Saturday in southern Nepal, during protests against the new constitution.