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Transport workers face hardship during lockdown
Shahin Akhter | Updated at 12:29am on April 01, 2020
The road transport workers are not getting any financial assistance from the welfare fund meant for them to get through the hard times following the...
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Road transport workers in hardship, seek food rations
Shahin Akhter | Updated at 11:37pm on March 29, 2020
Lakhs of road transport workers across the country are passing their days in hardship because of the 10-day ban on the movement of all kinds...
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People continue to leave Dhaka in goods-carrying vehicles
Shahin Akhter with Habib Khan in Tangail | Updated at 11:23pm on March 29, 2020
Many people continued to leave the capital by goods-laden vehicles risking their lives amid the 10-day public holiday and a countrywide ban on all modes...
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Bangladesh sees mad rush for home despite ban on public transports
Shahin Akhter and Rashad Ahamad | Updated at 11:33pm on March 24, 2020
The authorities on Tuesday closed all public transport services on railways, waterways and domestic airways in the country while thousands of people overcrowded the terminals...
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Virus hits shipping, spreading global economic strain
Agence France-Presse . London | Updated at 11:55pm on February 23, 2020
Sea freight transport, the lifeblood of trade and a bellwether of the global economy, has been blown off course by the new coronavirus, sparking general...
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Bangladesh government must keep unfit vehicles off the road
| Updated at 12:00am on February 18, 2020
THE High Court directive that has asked the government to form task forces, composed of executive magistrates and Road Transport Authority and police representatives, headed...
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Form task forces to keep unfit vehicles off roads across Bangladesh: HC
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:37am on February 17, 2020
The High Court Division on Sunday directed the government to form separate taskforce headed by deputy commissioner at each district to monitor and put unregistered...
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Airbus reports 2019 net loss of 1.36b euros
Agence France-Presse . Paris | Updated at 11:52pm on February 13, 2020
Airbus on Thursday reported a net loss of 1.36 billion euros in 2019 after being hit by a 3.6-billion-euro fine over a bribery scandal and...
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Vacancies in road agencies must be filled, irregularities stopped
| Updated at 12:00am on January 18, 2020
VACANCIES in more than a half of the sanctioned positions in agencies under the road transport and bridges ministry is worrying as the shortage of...
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Union boss defiant in France strike
Agence France-Presse . Paris | Updated at 11:05pm on December 27, 2019
The boss of a hardline French trade union on Friday vowed to press on with a strike that has crippled transport in Paris for the...
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