Tag Archives: Hartal
BNP protest rally today
DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will stage a rally on Monday protesting the attack on Dhaka City Corporation’s (DCC) outgoing mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka.
The rally will also demand the release of approximately 100 BNP leaders and activists who were detained in different parts of the capital during yesterday’s hartal.
BNP’s Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the programme during a post-hartal press briefing at the party’s Naya Paltan central office on Sunday. He warned that the BNP will undertake non-stop agitation programmes to protest the government’s decision to split DCC into two parts.
Khoka arrested, freed: cops foil BNP rallies
DHAKA, DEC 4: The dawn-to-dusk hartal at the call of the BNP-led four party alliance to protest against Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) split- disrupted city life with a limited number of vehicles moving on city streets.
BNP-enforced hartal in Dhaka against DCC split underway (updated)
DHAKA: Police charged batons on a procession of Jatiyatabadi Mahila Dal in the early hours of Sunday during the BNP-enforced dawn-to-dusk hartal called to protest the splitting of Dhaka City Corporation into two entities.
BNP’s day-long hartal in city today
Dhaka, Dec 3: The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party is scheduled to enforce a dawn-to-dusk hartal in the capital on Sunday in protest against splitting of Dhaka City Corporation into two entities.
BNP’s hartal in city Dec 4
DHAKA, NOV 30: The opposition BNP had announced day-long hartal in the capital on Sunday (December 4) protesting the government’s decision to split Dhaka City Corporation (DCC). The decision was taken in the emergency meeting of the party standing committee meeting chaired by BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Wednesday.
Agitation and general strike: Sep 2011
Begunbari canal development
Crescent lake
Agargaon
Expressway under construction- Airport road
Army Medical College, Dhaka
Siddeswari road
Market opp to Ramna police station
Eskaton road
Stalls of Bakushah market, Nilkhet
Rampura road- bus stand
Firmagate- evening before BNP led Hartal of 22nd Sep (media pic)
Family ride dangerously with sleeping baby on bike in Dhaka (d.star)
BSMMU (PG hospital)- 6 hours power blackout in the morning today (d.sun)
Kakrail Intersection (media pic)
4-partyHartal view of 22 sep at Sapla square (media pic)
Argentine team with Dhaka kids (media pic)
Plight of Jagannath University students during agitation (media pic)
much talked about pic: Police action of 22 Sep hartal on a picketer (media pics)
gathering in today’s meeting (d.star)
BNP-enforced hartal passes off peacefully in Jessore
Jessore: A half-day hartal enforced in Jessore by district unit BNP passed off peacefully on Saturday.
The shutdown ended at 12:00noon without any untoward incident.
BNP reduce Thursday’s hartal by 1hr
Dhaka: Main opposition BNP has reduced Thursday’s countrywide dawn to dusk hartal by one hour till 5 pm.
30 hurt, 5 held during hartal in N’ganj
Narayanganj: At least 30 people, including 10 policemen, were injured in a clash between pro-hartal activists and law enforcers in Fatulla of the district on the first day of 30-hour hartal on Sunday called by the alliance of 12 religion-based political parties.
The clash ensued when police obstructed a procession brought out by the hartal supporters in the area.
Faruq assault: BNP MP filed case against 25 people
Dhaka: A case was filed against 25 people including Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) of police Harun-UR-Rashid and Assistant Commissioner (AC) Biplob Sarker this morning (Sunday) protesting the police assault on BNP chief whip Joynal Abedin Faruq during hartal on July 6.
Ashrafuddin Nizam, Lawmaker of Lakshmipur-4, filed the case with the court of Metropolitan Magistrate AKM Azad this morning.
Stray incidents mark second day of hartal
DHAKA, JULY 7: Stray incidents in the capital and elsewhere marked the first two days of the nationwide 48-hour shutdown.
Nearly 50 held on last day of hartal
Dhaka, July 7 (bdnews24.com) — The second day of the 48-hour general strike called by BNP and its allies has ended with sporadic clashes between law enforcers and pro-hartal activists.
Over 50 opposition activists were arrested on Wednesday across the country.
According to reports, police arrested 20 hartal supporters in Rajshahi, eight in Sylhet, two in Chittagong, two in Khulna, seven in Noakhali, five in Bogra, two in Barguna and two in Satkhira.
Around 30 vehicles were reportedly vandalised in Barisal.
Pickets torched two buses in Gazipur and one in Dhaka.
bdnews24.com/corr/ost/nir/2345h
BNP lawmakers stage sit-in
BNP lawmakers staged a sit-in at the east site of the parliament on Thursday demanding arrest and exemplary punishment of the policemen responsible for the attack on Opposition Chief Whip Zainul Abdin Farroque.
Meanwhile, police arrested a youth when he was trying to set a bus ablaze at Mirpur early Thursday, the second day of the 48-hour countrywide hartal called by BNP-led four-party alliance.
A total of 17 lawmakers including BNP joint secretary general Mahbubuddin Khokon started the sit-in programme at about 9:30am, which continued for one and a half hours.
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