National
Azizul Alam Mintu has been elected as the president and Selim Reza Mithu as the general secretary of the Jashore District Transport Workers' Union (Reg-227).The tri-annual election was held in a festive mood at Jashore Government City College on Friday (February 5). Votes were counted on Saturda...
The authorities of Jahangirnagar University (JU) on Wednesday inaugurated a newly constructed transport depot and office in the university’s Bishmail bazar area, reports BSS.Vice chancellor of JU professor Farzana Islam inaugurated the depot and office through a virtual platform amid COVID-19 ...
An indefinite transport strike on all the routes of Pabna started from Tuesday with a 6-point demand.After a 72-hour ultimatum given by Pabna District Bus Truck Owners Workers Unity Council ended, they announced the transport strike.Meanwhile, as a result of the strike, the suffering of the common p...
World
The EU transport commissioner warned Thursday that 10,000 European truckers were struggling to return from Britain and criticised France for imposing coronavirus restrictions on them, reports AFP.Several countries around Europe and the world imposed bans on travel from the UK this week after the dis...
Leaders of Jashore District Paribahan Sangstha Sramik Union called a transport strike for December 28 on 18 routes demanding Sramik Union’s elections. The strike was announced from a protest rally held on Manihar premises in Jashore district town on Tuesday afternoon. According to the ann...
Editorial
There have been a lot of plans in progress throughout the country, some of which have already been realised and others are on the way to being realised fully. In this regard, the government has taken a three-dimensional plan on the mass transportation system for the capital city Dhaka to alleviate s...
A three-day transport strike enforced by Truck-Pickup-Covered Van Owners' Oikkya Parishad, Sylhet division, starts in Sylhet from Tuesday (22 December) morning. Leaders of TPCVOOP called the strike demanding reopening of stone-quarries of Sylhet.Other organisations involved with the transp...
National,Back Page
The government has taken a three-dimensional plan on the mass transportation system in capital Dhaka in combination with road, rail and waterways, said sources concerned. Such plan has been taken to improve efficiency, speed and convenience of the city commuters.The sources said, this three-dim...
Tech Post
Google Maps has introduced its impressive new feature Google Transit, which allows the commuters in Bangladesh to access public transport information. Starting from Thursday, Google Maps will show routes, stops, and estimated travel times to assist commuters in planning their journeys using pub...
The Payra port will be able to transfer 20 million tonnes of coal annually to its own jetty once the dredging project of Rabnabad channel is completed, reports BSS.The information was revealed at a meeting on the main dredging project of Rabnabad channel and its maintenance at the shipping ministry ...
UNICEF is working with major global airlines and freight providers to step up efforts to deliver Covid-19 vaccines to over 92 countries around the world as soon as vaccines become available, reports BSS.To kick-start preparations, UNICEF together with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and ...
The gang accused in shipping worker Mahabub murder case is ruling Shitolakhya River and extorting toll from all river vessels in the name of different organisations.Slain Mahabub’s widow Razia Begum had filed a murder case with Bandar Police Station in Narayanganj accusing 11 people on Februar...
Amid speculations of enforcing a second lockdown, leaders of private transport owners and workers expressed grave concerns over continuing to carry on business.Many of them have questioned on how to survive if income of daily wage earners is prevented in such lockdown situations to prevent further t...
Leaders of Rajshahi Divisional Transport Owners' Association have called an indefinite transport strike in eight districts of the division from November-1 to press home their eight-point demand.Safakat Monjur Biplob, President of RDTOA informed if their eight-point demand including cancellation ...
Speakers at the human chain demanded implementation of Road Transport Act 2018 and called upon everyone to stay conscious while using of roads and highways. The demand came at a human chain organized by the Rajshahi unit of Nirapad Sarak Chai (NSC) organised at the zero point of the city’...
As rural people are at the centre of any given development plan, the government has undertaken an integrated initiative with extensive programmes in order to develop the country’s rural communication system.As per the directives of the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the Ministry of Local Govern...
A riverine-port connecting Rajshahi to Murshidabad in India is soon going to start operation to ease the transport of goods between the two countries. This proposed riverine port will be set up at Sultanganj of Godagari upazila of Rajshahi to carry goods from there to Maya port of Murshidabad ...
Water communications in the country is facing severe lack of modernisation and oversight. Since the country is a riverine land, there is a vast number of transports that ply the water routes. Despite this, the rivers are facing a crisis of being dried-up or encroached upon or polluted with no answer...
National,Front Page
Being the most affordable and secured communication system, the government is determined to bring discipline on the country’s water transport sector to make it transparent and accountable.The waterways communications area affordable and secure, and the sector need to be properly developed.&nbs...
The Shimulia-Kanthalbari route has been closed for a long time at night and the ferry service is limited during the day, so there is pressure on the Paturia-Daulatdia route.According to the ghat authorities, three ferries broke down while going against the current. They are being repaired.The pontoo...
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