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.

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

Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam says country's ongoing violence is part of global terrorist activities by religious fundamentalists.

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

SSC, equivalent exams scheduled for tomorrow have been shifted to February 27 following hartal extension by the BNP-led alliance

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

When hartals are more important to BNP and Jamaat than the education of country's younger generation, there is no other choice but to ban hartals. It is clear that their main aim is to dislodge the government and scuttle the trials...

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)

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia should be charged with sedition for her ‘anti-state movement’, says Finance Minister AMA Muhith

BNP-led 20-party alliance calls a fresh spell of 72-hour countrywide hartal from Sunday morning protesting “conspiracy to starve its chief Khaleda Zia to death”

Due to continuous blockades and hartals, the country's economy is facing severe loss. Innocent people are dying all around us, properties are getting vandalised, schools are remaining closed.

It has been more than a month since the anti-government blockade started. With it came continuous spells of hartal, and while Molotov cocktails have become part-and-parcel of the 20-party alliance strategy, it appears that firearms are about to join the fray. The police have recently unearthed an illegal racket of arms whereby dealers are using children as arms carriers.

BNP-led 20-party alliance threatens to go for “law flouting programme and non-cooperation movement” against the government’s “repressive acts”

Passenger suffers splinter injuries as miscreants hurled crude bomb at a bus in Mohammadpur area of Dhaka

THE pressure was getting to me. Tomorrow was the last day of my exams, and if I did well I'd have a good feeling during the entire vacation.