National
A transport worker was killed in a road accident in Satkhira. The deceased was identified as Mehdi Hassan, 25, son of Kamrul Islam hailed from Dhulihar village under Sadar upazila in Satkhira. The accident took place at around 1:30 pm in front of the Itagachha police camp on Satkhira Kal...
National,Back Page
An organisation named Nirapod Sarak Gorte Chai (NSGC) held transport owners responsible for increasing accidents across the country.The NSGC, an organisation working for awareness building against road accidents, at a press conference held on Wednesday at Dhaka Reporters Unity, claimed that drivers ...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Wednesday said the road transport law will be sent to the Jatiya Sangsad again with some amendments, reports BSS. “We will crosscheck the road transport law and discuss it elaborately in the meeting,” he told to journalists before holding a meeting...
National,Front Page
The government has undertaken a mega project to construct 129km elevated ring road surrounding capital Dhaka in order to ease transportation with different parts of the country. The project also aims at reducing the traffic congestion in the city capital. The project would be implemented under gover...
Immediate implementation of ‘Road Transport Act’ is needed to ensure discipline on roads and highways. According to experts, despite widespread road safety movement nationwide, the country’s roads and highways have continued witnessing deadly accidents claiming lives of people and ...
Transport workers are allegedly charging excessive fare from the home bound passengers ahead of Eid-ul-Adha, despite deployment of additional vigilance by the law enforcers at bus stops in city and elsewhere. Passengers belonging to the poor, middle class and lower-middle class group are facing seri...
Hundreds and thousands of sacrificial animals are transported to the capital by various means including trucks trucks. Cattle transported by boats is also a traditional practice preferred by cattle traders due to cheaper costs of transporting the animals. The picture, taken from Postagola Bridge on ...
Country DeskPolice recovered the body of a transport employee from a jute field in Jhaudanga under Sadar upazila in Satkhira on Tuesday.The deceased was identified as Alamgir Hossain Alam of Gobindakati village in the upazila.He was a supervisor of transport company ‘Songram Paribahan’. ...
All Section,City
Five new cars have been added to transport pool Jahangirnagar University (JU) on Tuesday. Among them, there are 2 AC minibus of 28 seats, 1 non AC minibus of 30 seats, 1 large microbus of 16 seats and 1 pickup.Vice- Chancellor (VC) of the university Profe Dr. Farzana Islam in...
Broke down Matamuhuri bridgeTransport connection has been detached in all over the country due to break down the Matamuhuri bridge at Chakoria in Cox's Bazar on Friday evening.The vehicular movement on the highway road has been disrupted. As a result passengers were facing extreme sufferings.Aro...
Country DeskMoulvibazar Poura Bus Terminal, the only bus terminal in the district town, has been lying unused for the last eight years due to reluctance among transport workers to use it.Claiming that passengers do not want to go to the terminal, half a km off Kusumbagh of district town, the transpo...
Students of BGMEA University of Fashion & Technology (BUFT) on Tuesday blocked the roads in Turag thana area after transport workers have carried out attacks on their buses and injured 7-8 fellow students.The protesting students said that a varsity bus carrying students was on way to BGMEA perma...
D S SouravFares on public transports have been raised by all transports in the city to match the price hike of gas that came into effect on Monday. The extra fare on public transports that came into effect from Tuesday, comes following informal announcement on the decision to raise the fares. As on ...
Editorial
It is encouraging news that the government is taking up a project to construct around 13,000 bridges and culverts in rural areas across the country. According to project details, the bridges and culverts will be constructed in 492 upazilas across the country. It is envisaged that these bridges and c...
The Dhaka city transport chaos continues on major roads and intersections every day, causing immense sufferings to commuters under the very nose of the authority concerned. Now it has become quite common to see cars, buses, motorcycles and even trucks being parked wherever the opportunity is availab...
The parliamentary standing committee on the Ministry of Shipping on Wednesday recommended taking measures to develop transport facilities in Hatia, Sandwip and Bhola islands. The committee made the recommendation at its 5th meeting held at Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Bhaban with committee chairman Major (re...
Supplement,Travel & Tourism
During the financial year 2018/19, Emirates SkyCargo, the cargo division of Emirates transported more than 75,000 tonnes of pharmaceuticals through its network. To reinforce its position as the global market leader for the air transport of temperature sensitive pharmaceuticals, Emirates SkyCargo has...
A team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-11 in a drive on Sunday night detained 19 transport extortionists from different spots on Dhaka-Chattagram Highway in Narayanganj.RAB members also recovered 1 lakh and six thousand extortion money and 18 cell phones used for extortion work from their possession...
The transport sector has sought additional Tk 4000 crore in the upcoming annual development programme before the announcement of budget for the fiscal 2019-20. In this regard, the Roads Transport and Highways Division (RTHD) has sent a letter to the planning commission seeking additional Tk 4000 cro...
Inland water vessels have started plying in different routes across the country from Sunday morning three days after Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) suspended the operation due to cyclonic storm Fani, reports BSS. The inland water transport services resumed at 6am as the weather ...
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