OF late, our otherwise ineffective parliament has seen a wave of refreshing moments as concerns and expectations were voiced and shared there by our ruling party and main opposition party stalwarts ...

I think I understand Leader of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina's mind well. In fact, I guess there are very few in Bangladesh who do not. She was pretty upset from day one about losing power and wanted ...

The hartal staged across the Northern and Eastern provinces yesterday (18), demanding justice for the death of a 32-year-old Tamil man in Mullaitivu, and calling for the withdrawal of Army camps from ...

Several Tamil political parties have planned to stage a hartal today (18) in the Northern and Eastern provinces demanding the repeal of the Prevention of Terrorism Act, holding provincial council ...

This month marks the 70th anniversary of the island-wide eruption of social unrest in Sri Lanka, popularly known as the Hartal. We are republishing here an article posted on September 2, 2020 on the ...

Dhaka, July 4 (BDNEWS) - The countrywide dawn to dusk hartal called by the 14 party alliance is being observed Tuesday. The Awami League led 14 party combine enforced the hartal in protest of the ...

The Sri Lankan ex-lefts of the United Socialist Party (USP) have issued an appeal to opposition parties and the trade unions to call a hartal (a general strike and shutdown of businesses) to fight for ...

The Anti-Quota Unity Alliance has withdrawn its 36-hour hartal in Rangamati on Thursday. Leaders of the organization said they express gratitude to all who supported the hartal. As the assistant ...