BNP will not go for any hartal and blockade-like programmes over the next few days even though the party outright rejected the poll results.

BNP today called a countrywide hartal from Saturday morning to Monday morning as part of their movement to boycott the January 7 elections

The BNP today deferred to Tuesday the countrywide hartal it had called for tomorrow

BNP has refrained from calling any programmes on Sunday marking International Human Rights Day

The BNP today declared a countrywide blockade on Wednesday, and a countrywide hartal on Thursday

Hartal and oborodh (blockade) have been part of the Bangladeshi political reality for decades. As the political situation has tensed up after BNP's October 28 rally ended in violence, around 80 percent of working days have seen the opposition parties calling for either a hartal or a blockade

Says Election Commissioner Rashida Sultana

Top law enforcement officials today informed the Election Commission that there were no big obstacles to arranging the upcoming national election

A countrywide dawn to dusk hartal enforced by opposition parties BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami yesterday had little impact on operational activities at the Chattogram port.

Arsonists boarded a Dhaka-bound bus in the guise of passengers and later set it on fire in Manikganj Sadar upazila this morning, amid the dawn-to-dusk hartal called by BNP

BNP has called a countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal for tomorrow protesting "police action" on the party leaders and activists in Dhaka's Kakrail area