0 a period of time, usually one day, when workers do not work because of an argument with an employer, or as a mark of respect for someone who has died
There was a general hartal in the city that day as a protest against these arrests.
The hartal started yesterday continues to-day.
Every one of these outbreaks had been preceded by carefully organised hartal, enforced by coercion and intimidation.
The hartal started yesterday continues to-day.
The more than doubling of the cost of rice was the main reason for the organizers of the hartal.
A hartal is a form of general strike, which attempts to bring all commercial activity to a standsstill for a limited period.
The programme called for complete "hartal" and general strike in all spheres of civic, commercial and industrial life except essential services.
In protest, a nationwide cessation of work ("hartal") was called, marking the beginning of widespread, although not nationwide, popular discontent.
