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A hartal is a mass protest, often involving a total shutdown of workplaces, offices, shops, and courts of law, and a form of civil disobedience similar to a labour strike. In addition to being a general strike , it involves the voluntary closure of schools and places of business.
The Hartal 1953 (Sinhala: 1953 වර්ජනය, romanized: Varjanaya) was a country-wide demonstration of civil disobedience and strike, commonly known as a hartal, held in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) on 12 August 1953.
Hartal called by Reason Casualties and damage Notes 1962 – 1971: 15 [1] then East Pakistan: 1972 – 1975: 5 [1] 1981 – 1987: 59 [1] 1991 – 1996: 266 [1] Awami League, called for hartal of unknown number of days: 1996 – 2001: 215 [1] BNP, called for 59-day hartal [2] 2001 – 2007: Unknown: Bangladesh Awami League, called for 173-day ...
Hartal Doktor Kontrak (HDK) was a nationwide workers' strike organised by medical officers in Malaysia on 26 July 2021 in protest against the government's contract system in appointing medical officers which was implemented at the end of 2016.
Paul Hartal (born 1936) [1] is a Canadian painter and poet, born in Szeged, Hungary. He has created the term "Lyrical Conceptualism" [ 2 ] to characterize his style in both painting and poetry, [ 3 ] attempting to unite the scientific with the creative, or intuitive.
The House Tax Hartal of 1810–11 was an occasion of nonviolent resistance to protest a tax in parts of British India, with a particularly noteworthy example of hartal (a form of general strike) in the vicinity of Varanasi.
The 1967 Penang Hartal riot (Malay: Hartal Pulau Pinang 1967) happened on November 24, 1967 in response to the devaluation of the Malayan dollar against the British pound sterling and the newly established Malaysian dollar.
The All-Malaya Council of Joint Action (AMCJA) was a coalition of political and civic organisations in Malaya formed to participate in the development of a constitution for post-war Malaya in preparation for independence and to oppose the Constitutional Proposals for Malaya (also known as the Federation Proposals or the Anglo-Malay Proposals) which eventually formed the basis of the Federation ...