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Cars dominate in absence of quality public transports
Shahin Akhter | Updated at 12:00am on September 22, 2021
The public transport system in the capital is far from ideal due to lack of quality services and discipline on roads. These inadequacies have been...
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Chaos on roads rises
Shahin Akhter | Updated at 11:42pm on September 17, 2021
The much-talked-about Road Transport Act 2018 is yet to be fully implemented even though almost three years have passed by after the law was enacted...
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A worrying violation of Covid safety rules
| Updated at 12:00am on September 06, 2021
PUBLIC health experts fear a fresh Covid wave as a gross violation of health rules are reported almost everywhere although the infection rate has been...
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Govt must register all vehicles, train all masters
| Updated at 12:00am on September 01, 2021
A CHAOS in the river transport regime appears to have been consequent on the government’s failure to ensure that all vessels are registered and all...
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Passenger beaten, pushed out of bus by staff over fare
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 09:13pm on August 30, 2021
A passenger was beaten indiscriminately and forcibly pushed out of a bus by transport workers during an altercation over fares at Gulistan in the capital...
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Ferry crisis on Aricha-Kazirhat route causes sufferings
Our Correspondent . Manikganj | Updated at 04:30am on August 23, 2021
The shortage of ferries on the Aricha-Kazirhat route across the River Padma has continued to cause huge sufferings to passengers and transport workers. On Sunday...
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Huge pressure at Aricha, Paturia terminals
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:30pm on August 19, 2021
A huge number of passengers and transport workers suffered while crossing the River Padma as pressures mounted at ferry terminals on the Paturia-Daulatdia and Aricha-Kazirhat...
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Undelivered promises keep the road regime unsafe
| Updated at 12:00am on July 27, 2021
It comes as highly worrying that the government agencies, tasked to discipline the road regime, and other stakeholders have failed to deliver on their promises...
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Walking is not pedestrian
Debra Efroymson | Updated at 12:00am on July 17, 2021
LIFE has changed in so many ways because of Covid-19, and this one change may not even have registered for you. But with restrictions on...
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Covid curbs falters in Bangladesh due to gross violations
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:02am on June 30, 2021
The fresh restrictions to curb the second wave of Covid-19 faltered due to widespread violations as a large number of people continued their movement on...
