WEEK after week has passed by since we have been living in a state of terror. Blockades and strikes appear to reign supreme in the lives of millions of helpless people in the country.

BNP announces to honour people, being killed in the hands of different government forces in the ongoing movement, as “freedom fighters of this generation”

People from different professions form a human chain at Gulshan-2 intersection in Dhaka protesting against BNP-led 20-party alliance’s ongoing countrywide hartal and blockade

Chittagong police arrests three leaders of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, on charge of conspiracy to blow up the depots of state-run oil companies -- Padma, Meghna and Jamuna.

The government defers two SSC and its equivalent examinations due to the BNP-led 20-party alliance 72-hour countrywide hartal that begins tomorrow

BNP-led alliance calls for another spell of 72-hour countrywide hartal from Sunday morning demanding fresh elections under a nonparty administration

Miscreants set fire to a bus in Louhajang upazila of Munshiganj, in the last hours of the 120hr hartal by BNP-led 20-party alliance.

CALLS from all quarters, both national and international, for dialogue between the government and the opposition has apparently fallen on deaf ears. As we approach the 50th day of the blockade coupled with near-continual hartals enforced by the 20-party alliance, the economy continues to bleed and the general populace suffer.

A pickup van driver, burnt in an arson attack by blockaders recently, dies at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital this morning.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina accuse Khaleda Zia of having a link with international militant group Islamic State (IS), and said the BNP chief will have to face trial for killing people.

A group of foreign diplomats called for a dialogue and compromise among rival political parties to bring an end to the deadly violence.

Two people suffer bullet wounds when police open fire in two separate incidents in Dhaka

The visiting EU parliamentary delegation did not express any concerns about the human rights situation in Bangladesh, claimed State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam.

Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina seeks all-out cooperation from all in rooting out militancy, terrorism from the country

Protesting the loss inflicted on their businesses by the blockade, the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) last week had held a programme, where it presented figures on the economic loss of various sectors.

Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal has called a three-day strike at all educational institutions across the country from Tuesday

BNP Joint Secretary General Rizvi Ahmed has been placed on a fresh three-day remand for bus arson case in Dhaka

Six days into a group of civil society members proposed for holding a national dialogue to end the political standoff, the BNP says it would welcome such initiative

Bangladesh High Court asks government to take steps to stop violence in the name of hartal and blockade

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)