After enforcing its first nationwide hartal in eight years, BNP yesterday called a three-day rail, road, and waterways blockade across the country from Tuesday to Thursday.

The way the events unfolded on Saturday has given the Awami League rank and file a confidence boost, claim leaders of the ruling party.

Arsonists torched a BRTC double-decker bus at Tongi this morning, amid the nationwide hartal called by BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami

Downtown Dhaka turned into a battlefield yesterday as BNP activists and police clashed, leading to the death of a policeman and a ward-level BNP leader.

The ruling Awami League yesterday said it would face the BNP politically and resist its hartal throughout the country.

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