Officials and employees of Biman Bangladesh Airlines demonstrated in front of the flag carrier's headquarters on Friday as its board of directors held a meeting there.
Only on Apr 10, the staff called off their strike after the civil aviation minister assured them the board would be dissolved as per their demand.
Some 200 Biman employees, under the banner of Biman Banchao Oikya Parishad, took part in the demonstration on Friday evening.
Additional police were deployed at the scene to avert any unpleasant incident.
"The civil aviation minister had assured us of dissolving Biman board of directors. Even after that, the board of directors has called a meeting in the evening," Biman Banchao Oikya Parishad publicity secretary Harun-or-Rashid told bdnews24.com.
"We demonstrated in front of Balaka Bhaban for one and a half hours starting from 4pm protesting the meeting," he added.
Shamshul Azad, a security official of Biman, told bdnews24.com that all of the board members reached the airliner's headquarters before 6pm to attend the meeting.
Airport Police Station sub-inspector (SI) said the protesters left the scene just after 6pm after staging their programme peacefully.
The Parishad on Apr 3 had called a 48-hour strike from Apr 16 demanding resignation of the chairman and dissolution of the board.
The pilots, cabin crew, officials and employees of Biman have been protesting since Mar 3 to press for their demands, terming the board corrupt and incompetent.
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A platform of owners and workers of petrol pumps and oil tank lorries has postponed a nonstop strike scheduled to be enforced from 6am on Sunday.
Bangladesh Petrol Pump Owners and Tank-Lorry Owners-Workers Unity Council announced the postponement in a media statement on Friday evening.
The platform had said that fuel oil will not be sold at about 9,000 petrol pumps while tank lorries would also have stopped supplying oil to press home its several demands including a hike in sales commission.
Convenor of the Council Nazmul Haque told bdnews24.com on Friday that at a press conference on Mar 31 they had issued an ultimatum for the government to raise commission on the sales of petroleum fuel and meet other demands before Apr 21.
"As the government has not made any move on the issue, we will enforce the indefinite strike from 6am on Sunday," he added.
One of the major demands of the association is implementation of the government's decision about increasing the pump owners' commission on sales of petroleum products.
After long negotiations, the government on Feb 23 last year agreed to raise the commission, but has yet to implement the decision.
A special committee formed by the government last year recommended increasing the sales commission of diesel and kerosene by 3.4 percent and octane and petrol by 4 percent.
"But the government on Jan 26 fixed 2.45 percent commission for the pump owners on diesel, 3.27 percent on petrol and 3.3 percent on octane without any discussion with us," he said.
Currently, around 4,900 petrol pumps are in operation.
Haque said the government raised prices of fuel oil several times in past few months but did not revise commission for the pump owners. Also the president of Petrol Pump Owners Association, Haque said pump owners and workers were being affected financially.
After the government raised fuel oil prices on Dec 29 last year, price of per litre diesel and kerosene went up to Tk 61, petrol to Tk 91, octane to Tk 94 a litre and furnace oil to Tk 60.
Their other demands include a guideline on installation of petrol pumps, increase in fares for tank lorries and an end to alleged police harassment in the name of checking papers of tank lorries.
"We have been pressing for several demands for past few years. The government assured us of meeting the demands but it is not keeping its pledge," Haque said.
The council had enforced an indefinite strike on May 9, 2010 but later called it off after prime minister's energy adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury and state minister for energy Enamul Huq had a meeting with them.
On May 17 last year, they once again announced to enforce a strike but later suspended it upon assurance from the government to meet some of their demands.
The ruling Awami League on Sunday brought out several anti-hartal processions at different points of the capital.
They also gathered in front of the party headquarters at the Bangabandhu Avenue.
AL activists and supporters started gathering at the party's Bangabandhu Avenue office since morning.
Party's city unit official Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya was at the headquarters where the supporters chanted anti-strike slogan.
The BNP is enforcing Sunday's shutdown protesting against the disappearance of the party's one of the organising secretaries M Ilias Ali. The opposition asked the authorities to find Ali.
The government, however, had requested BNP to withdraw Sunday's strike. The opposition rejected the call and threatened to enforce indefinite strike if Ali was not found.
Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), AL student wing, Paltan unit brought out a procession at the Nightingale Crossing near the BNP headquarters. Police, however, did not allow them to move towards the BNP headquarters.
Ulama League, a religious group affiliated with AL, brought out a procession at the Bangabandhu Avenue and held a rally in front of the National Press Club.
Several other anti-strike processions were also seen across the capital.
The BNP leaders had been alleging that the government had a hand in Ilias Ali's going 'missing'. Prime minister Sheikh Hasina rejected the allegation and said it was a "drama staged by the BNP".
Home minister Shahara Khatun on Friday called on the opposition to withdraw the strike, saying law enforcing agencies were working to find out Ilias.
BNP spokesman Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said the opposition might call non-stop shutdown if Ali was not found.
Police on Sunday fired around 100 rounds of blank shots and tear shells in Sylhet as massive clashes broke out between the law enforcers and pro-shutdown pickets on Sunday afternoon.
At least 20 were injured during the clashes and over 50 people detained, police said.
However, the situation was peaceful until the afternoon.
Clash ensued in Sylhet city after police barred BNP activists from taking out a procession in support of the shutdown protesting disappearance of one of the BNP's organising secretaries, M Ilias Ali.
The clashes ensued around 12:30pm at Zindabazar when police barred a procession led by Jamiyate Ulamaye Islam, member of the newly formed BNP-led 18-Party Coalition, Kotwali police officer in charge Ataur Rahman said.
Police fired at least 20 tear shells and 30 blank shots to bring the situation under control. They also detained 14 activists from the area that turned into a battle zone with opposition activists pelting the law enforcers with brickbats.
Earlier, opposition activists gathered at City Centre after police foiled a number of their attempts around the city to take out processions.
Chases and counter-chases also took place at the city's Babna Intersection. Law enforcers detained an activist during the altercation, South Surma police said.
A clash broke out at Tuker Bazar also and police fired 20-25 tear gas shells and blank shots and detained around 20 activists, Sylhet Mertopolitan Police deputy commissioner Ezaz Ahmed said.
BNP activists surrounded the Bishwanath Police Station, the area where Ilias Ali's home is, around noon and pelted brickbats. A clash between the law enforcers and protesters began and police fired 50 tear shells and blank shots. They also detained 11 activists from there.
Earlier, around 11:00am, pickets vandalised an auto-rickshaw carrying newspapers and a medicine shop and torched a food shop. Police have detained three pickets from there, Sylhet district SP Shakhawat Hossain said.
Additional police have been deployed at the key points of Sylhet city including Ambarkhana, Chouhatta, Court Point, Jindabazar and City Point. Rapid Action Battalion personnel are also patrolling the city.
Additional commissioner of Sylhet Mertopolitan Police Abdullah Al Azad Choudhury said, "Police are working to ensure safety and security of the people."
He added they detained two Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) activists, Saidul Enam Choudhury Lahin, 28, and Enamul Haque Choudhury Shamim, 32, from Zindabazar in the morning along with a knife and a motorcycle.
Most of the streets are empty due to the shutdown except for the rickshaws plying the streets. Long route buses are not operating and most of the shops are closed.
Around 8am, police detained four pickets from Eidgah area in Shayestanagar. They are Azizul Islam, 35, Sumon Mia, 30, Jewel Mia, 28, and district JCD joint convenor Imran Ahmed, 30.
A daylong shutdown was also enforced on Thursday in Sylhet over Ilias Ali's disappearance, who is also the chief of the district BNP.