Guest occupancy drops sharply Hundred of foreigners mainly businessmen have vacated Dhaka with the beginning of yet another round of general strikes called by the mainstream opposition parties. City’s posh hotel operators told New Age that occupancy rate by the foreign guests and other events had reduced to half since last month.
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Goods transport sector passing through hard time for strikes
Goods transport sector is passing through a severe crisis as their vehicles are being vandalised and torched during general strikes for the last few months. Truck and covered van owners told New Age that their business had already cut by more than 70 per cent and a good number of owners had failed
Labour leaders urge parties not to call strike
Labour leaders on Thursday said ferequent strikes were taking their toll on the low income poeple including labourers, hitting hard their life and livihood. At a human chian, they urged political parties to ensure safety of common people as they were always the victims of political violence.
Prolonged unrest is weighing on ecomonic growth: Moody’s
The ongoing political unrest and violent general strikes are weighing on Bangladesh’s economic growth by heightening the vulnerability and threatening to derail reform progress, said Moody’s in its latest credit outlook. The US-based credit rating agency in the report released on Thursday said the GDP growth of the country would fall to 5.9 per cent ... Read more
Opposition parties urged not to call hartal
Leaders of Imarat Nirman Sramik Union, a rights body of the construction workers, on Tuesday at press conference called on the opposition political parties to refrain from calling general strike or other such violent programmes. Mohammad Abdur Razzak, general secretary
Retail businesses passing through tough time
Retailers are passing through tough time as sales at their shops have almost halved due to the current political unrest and frequent general strikes, shop owners said. They said most of the small businessmen were forced to meet their operational cost with capital fund in recent weeks as they had failed to make any profits ... Read more
Oil-gas body observes strike today
The national committee to protect, oil, gas, mineral resources, power and ports observes a general strike in the capital for six hours today to press home its seven-point demand including cancellation of the deals signed with ConocoPhillips for the exploration and extraction of gas in two offshore gas fields. Leaders of the organisation at a ... Read more