Last Thursday the city was mostly blocked and traffic came to a standstill. Later the news read that was due to a factory of NASA garments shutting down and workers losing their job, they were blocking the road.
Weekend is over and it's Sunday. Today's news another garments in Mirpur shutdown their factory and workers blocked the road. 40+ garments factory have been shutdown this year.
Global slowdown hitting Bangladesh. Note that 90% of our export is garments.