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Passengers suffer as vessel workers enforce daylong wildcat strike
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 06:03pm on January 25, 2021
Passengers on waterways suffered immensely on Monday following a daylong countrywide wildcat strike protesting at the jailing of two vessel workers in a case. The...
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Patients suffer at RMCH as interns go on indefinite strike
Our Correspondent . Rangpur | Updated at 01:23am on December 26, 2020
Interns at Rangpur Medical College Hospital went on an indefinite strike Friday morning over an altercation between an intern and a fourth class employee Thursday...
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Rangpur Sugar Mills workers, growers observe half-day strike in locality
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:03am on December 25, 2020
The half-day hartal called by the workers of Rangpur Sugar Mills and sugarcane growers in Mahimaganj union under Gobindaganj in Gaibandha demanding resumption of sugarcane...
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Armenia opposition stages protests over Karabakh
Agence France-Presse . Yerevan | Updated at 11:06pm on December 23, 2020
Thousands of protesters rallied in Armenia’s capital on Tuesday demanding prime minister Nikol Pashinyan resign over a controversial peace deal with Azerbaijan as the opposition...
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Vessel workers withdraw strike as owners to give food allowances
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 03:31pm on October 22, 2020
Workers of goods-carrying river vessels on Thursday withdrew their indefinite strike across the country on the third day as the vessel owners assured them of...
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Vessel strike continues for 2nd day, hits business hard
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:55am on October 22, 2020
The indefinite strike enforced by goods-carrying river vessel workers across the country continued for the second consecutive day on Wednesday amid the suspension of loading...
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A year from cricketers’ strike brings little change
Samiur Rahman | Updated at 11:37pm on October 20, 2020
Exactly one year ago Bangladesh cricket witnessed an unprecedented event when all first-class players went on a strike to fulfill their 11-point demands. The strike...
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Goods-carrying vessel workers begin indefinite strike
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:39pm on October 20, 2020
Goods-carrying vessel workers across the country went on a strike for an indefinite period from early Tuesday to press home their 11-point demands. Workers, under...
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Azerbaijan vows retaliation for deadly strike on civilians
Agence France-Presse . Ganja | Updated at 10:30pm on October 17, 2020
Azerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliyev vowed on Saturday to take revenge on Armenia after a missile strike killed 12 sleeping people in the city of Ganja,...
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Goods-laden vehicle owners, workers threaten strike
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:54pm on September 29, 2020
Goods-laden vehicle owners and workers have threatened to enforce a countrywide 48-hour strike from October 12 to press home their nine-point demands. They took the...