Hartal
Three months that have cost us $2.2b
THE dreadful fear that we have had about the economic loss of the nation in the three-month-long political unrest has been substantiated in the
13 April 2015, 18:00 PM
BNP may not consider toppling govt again: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says she doesn't think BNP would consider any move to topple the government in the future again as "the party has lost its strength by resorting to subversive activities in the name of anti-government movement".
13 April 2015, 10:38 AM
4 vehicles torched in Ctg, Gazipur
Alleged pickets torch and vandalise four vehicles in Chittagong and Gazipur during the countrywide daylong hartal enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami.
13 April 2015, 05:12 AM
Jamaat’s daylong hartal Monday
Jamaat-e-Islami calls daylong hartal for Monday protesting the execution of their leader and war criminal Muhammad Kamaruzzaman.
11 April 2015, 17:08 PM
2 held with 27 crude bombs in Lalbagh
Police detain two persons with 27 crude bombs and bomb-making materials from a house in Lalbagh area of Dhaka.
6 April 2015, 07:36 AM
Khaleda returns to her residence after 92 days
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia returns to her Gulshan residence in Dhaka today after a 92-day stay at her political office.
5 April 2015, 06:24 AM
COMMENTS
No doubt security is a priority. But with continuous blockade and hartal imposed by her party, security of general people is in grave danger.
4 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Insensitivity to deaths is mental aberration
IF politicians deliberately create a “situation” in the country,and if that situation incites a group of unruly elements of their party to go about murdering people on the roads, and if those politicians remain insensitive to such deaths and destruction, the state of their mental disposition would definitely come into question at one point of time.
3 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Fresh 24-hr hartal from Thursday
BNP-led 20-party alliance calls 24-hour hartal from 6am Thursday demanding return of missing Salahuddin Ahmed. Dhaka and Ctg cities will remain out of its purview.
31 March 2015, 11:40 AM
48-hr hartal from Monday
20-party calls 48-hour hartal from Monday demanding return of missing Salahuddin Ahmed. Dhaka, Ctg to remain out of purview.
29 March 2015, 08:33 AM
2 more arson victims die at DMCH
Two more arson victims, who suffered severe burns in separate firebomb attacks in Chandpur and Magura, die at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital
25 March 2015, 04:56 AM
HSC exams on schedule, Nahid reiterates
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid reiterates that the HSC and equivalent exams will begin on April 1 as per schedule
24 March 2015, 14:19 PM
Brief relief from hartal
The countrymen will get a relief from hartal on a working day for the second time since February 1 as the BNP-led 20-party alliance will not extend the shutdown
24 March 2015, 13:40 PM
2 injured in TSC blasts, bus torched at Shahbagh
At least two people injured in crude bomb blasts at TSC on Dhaka University campus, while miscreants torch a bus at Shahbagh intersection
23 March 2015, 14:14 PM
JU bus torched ahead of hartal
A bus was torched inside Jahangirnagar University campus early today ahead of the kick-off to BNP-led 20-party alliance’s fresh spell of hartal
22 March 2015, 05:38 AM
4 arson victims die at DMCH
Four including three of the nine who suffered severe burns in the mindless petrol bomb attack on a truck in Magura succumbed to their injuries at DMCH
22 March 2015, 02:00 AM
2 cops hurt in Paltan crude bomb blasts
Two policemen are injured as alleged pro-hartal picketers hurl several crude bombs at Dainik Bangla intersection in Paltan of Dhaka
21 March 2015, 17:15 PM
Another spell of 72-hr hartal from tomorrow
BNP-led 20-party alliance calls fresh spell of 72-hour countrywide hartal from tomorrow protesting alleged arrest of BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed, a party press statement says
21 March 2015, 08:22 AM
The choice of the (unaware) 'elakabashi'
I had a dream, which is not unusual given the time that we get to sleep during the traffic jam, which is the hallmark of the ongoing hartal imposed by the opposition out of parliament.
20 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Violence decreasing: IGP
IGP AKM Shahidul Hoque says incidents of sabotage have been on the decrease due to police actions
20 March 2015, 12:31 PM