The closure of shops and offices, typically as a strike(noun)
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Use "hartal" in a sentence
"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."