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  Most motorbikes breach law, risk accident

  Shahin Akhter | Updated at 11:40pm on November 29, 2020

  As motorcycles have outnumbered all other modes of transport across the country, the two-wheelers are also making roads unsafe due to desperate driving and rampant breaches...

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  Railway for doubling cost, extending time   

  Shahin Akhter | Updated at 12:22am on November 26, 2020

  Bangladesh Railway on Wednesday approved a proposal for increasing cost and extending the deadline of a project to turn the Dhaka-Narayanganj railway route into a...

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  45pc toll hike proposed

  Shahin Akhter | Updated at 12:03am on November 19, 2020

  Bangladesh Bridge Authority recommends a 45 per cent increase in toll fees on an average for using the Bangabandhu Bridge on the river Jamuna and...

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  New route for ferry between Shimulia, Kathalbari

  Shahin Akhter | Updated at 12:45am on November 17, 2020

  Though the authorities opened a new route for ferry movement on the Shimulia-Kathalbari water channel in the river Padma on November 5, disruptions in communications...

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  Parking space crisis cripples city traffic movement

  Shahin Akhter | Updated at 12:02am on October 24, 2020

  The acute crisis of parking spaces is a major reason for the nagging traffic congestions in the capital while urban planners say that more off-street...

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  Depression disrupts normal life

  Emran Hossain and Shahin Akhter with Ferdous Ara in Chattogram | Updated at 11:41pm on October 23, 2020

  Heavy rain and squalls caused by a depression that moved inland around Friday noon hampered normal life across the country, disrupting road and river communications....

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  Padma bridge rail link redesign rejected

  Shahin Akhter | Updated at 12:20am on October 23, 2020

  The bridges authorities did not accept the rectified design of the Padma Bridge Rail Link project sent by the railways authorities after the detection of...

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  No system yet for drivers’ drug test

  Shahin Akhter | Updated at 12:12am on October 23, 2020

  The authorities have not yet introduced a regular and universal system to carry out drug tests on drivers in defiance of a High Court directive...

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  Road safety still far off

  Shahin Akhter | Updated at 11:09pm on October 21, 2020

  The government is set to observe the National Safe Road Day 2020 today amid the never-ending chaos on roads in the capital as well as...

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  Easy bikes keep running on Dhaka roads

  Shahin Akhter | Updated at 11:57pm on October 16, 2020

  Unregistered battery-run three-wheelers ‘easy bikes’ continue to run on the Dhaka city roads defying repeated ban imposed by the authorities to avoid possible fatal accidents....