Gazipur workers end blockades on highways, traffic resumes
Gazipur workers end blockades on highways, traffic resumes

Workers have lifted the blockade on the Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway in Tongi and the Dhaka-Tangail Highway in Gazipurs Mouchak, allowing traffic to resume. They blocked the highways demanding due wages, overtime, and Eid bonuses, as well as protesting the assault of a co-worker. Although the...

Gazipur traffic gridlock as workers block highways
Gazipur traffic gridlock as workers block highways

Labourers of a factory in Gazipurs Tongi have blocked the Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway demanding due wages, Eid bonuses, and protesting against overtime. Additionally, workers in Gazipurs Maouchak area have blocked the Dhaka-Tangail Highway in protest against assaults on their co-workers. The...

Titumir College students block roads again
Titumir College students block roads again

Students of Titumir College resumed their road blockade programme around 4 pm Friday after 12 hours of pause to press home their demand of upgrading the college into a university. The road blockade is continuing in front of the college campus for the second straight day. A few of the students...

Workers block roads in Ashulia over unpaid wages
Workers block roads in Ashulia over unpaid wages

Disgruntled workers in Ashulia, near Savar, staged a road blockade on Monday, demanding payment of overdue salaries and other benefits. The demonstration caused severe traffic congestion along a six-kilometer stretch of the Ashulia-DEPZ-Abdullahpur road between Jamgora and Zirabo. The protest...