Pro-Awami League doctors give 24-hour ultimatum to BNP Chief Khaleda Zia for withdrawal of ongoing blockade, hartal (shutdown) and violence

Pickets vandalise five vehicles in Feni town on the fourth day of the BNP-led 20-Party alliance’s hartal

THE BNP- led 20 party alliance's announcement of a 12 hour 'break' in hartal to allow for people to celebrate the Bangladesh Cricket team's victory over England for the World Cup quarterfinals is a contrived attempt to gain public sympathy.

WE cannot but deplore in the strongest terms the senseless acts of vandalism that have plagued the country in the last two months, the latest victim of which, it seems, has become the land record offices across a big swathe of the country.

In the wake of some recent petrol bomb charges reportedly from the tops of city buildings, the government has decided to ask the owners of high-rise buildings in the capital to install close-circuit (CC) cameras.

Police today picked up three leaders of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, student wing of BNP, near Aziz Super Market at Shahbagh in Dhaka.

The government postpones the Dakhil examinations scheduled for tomorrow (Wednesday) following extension of hartal by the BNP-led 20-party political alliance.

BNP-led 20-party alliance relaxes its hartal for 12-hour from 6:00am tomorrow for the celebration of Bangladesh Cricket Team’s victory in the World Cup

The government has plans to form a specialised unit of law enforcers to combat subversive activities during the ongoing blockade and hartal enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.

A small trader, who was burnt in a petrol bomb attack, allegedly by hartal supporters in February, dies at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.

Alleged pickets torch two buses in Nikunjo and New Market area of Dhaka on the first day of 72-hour countrywide hartal (shutdown) enforced by BNP-led-20 party alliance

Miscreants set fire to a shuttle train of Chittagong University at Sholoshohor railway station in Chittagong

Terming Khaleda Zia as the leader of the militants, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says that the BNP chief would have to face punishment for getting people killing in petrol bombs attacks.

The BNP-led 20-party alliance has called for a fresh spell of 72-hour countrywide hartal from Sunday morning to press home their demands that include general elections under a nonparty administration.

The government has postponed Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations scheduled for Sunday and Tuesday after the BNP-led 20-party alliance called a fresh 72-hour hartal from tomorrow.

A front page report in this newspaper on Friday has very clearly brought out the trauma that the country has suffered in the last two months as a consequence of the political programmes called by the BNP. Our fears are compounded by BNP's threat of even tougher programmes should the government not accede to their demands by 8 March.

Two Jubo League activists have been killed by undefined attackers in separate incidents in Natore and Bogra

A sedition case has been filed against BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka and Nagorik Oikya Convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna.

3 people, including a Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader, were injured in separate crude bomb blasts in Dhaka

A truck helper, who suffered burns in an arson attack on a truck in Chapainawabganj, dies at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital.