Definition of "hartal" [hartal]

• The closure of shops and offices, typically as a strike (noun)

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• "On Monday morning, bicycle rickshaws, motorbikes and the occasional bus had the run of the road in the frenetic capital of Bangladesh as the opposition party called another hartal, or strike."
• ""BNP has created issues for calling the hartal by manipulating the share prices and hoarding essential commodities," the Prime Minister told her cabinet, according to a local English newspaper the Read about rising food prices that have sparked riots and hoarding across the world."
• "State Minister for Home Shamsul Haque Tuku said the opposition called the hartal to hinder the trial process of war criminals."