The irony is that even when there is no political unrest, the culture of blocking roads for rallies and commemorations has the same suffocating effect on commuters, small business owners, and informal workers.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir secures bail in a case filed over the party’s anti-government road blockade in Dhaka in 2012.
March 30 was a terrible day to be on the road. Commuters were stuck for hours on end as major roads were blocked due to three reasons...
Workers of three garment factories block a road at Kamalapur in Dhaka and vandalise at least three buses while protesting the death of their colleague in a road accident.
A schoolboy dies after falling down from a mini-truck when the vehicle came under the attack of UPDF activists during a road blockade in Khagrachhari Sadar.
Garment workers set a bus afire after it ran over one of their colleagues in Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj this morning. Agitating workers also vandalised at least 10 vehicles, witnesses say.
