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Obaidul vows to enforce discipline on roads in 2020
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:16am on December 24, 2019
Road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader on Monday said that establishing discipline on roads would be his main challenge in the upcoming year. ‘Discipline,...
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Decent public transport service still elusive in Bangladesh capital
Rashad Ahamad | Updated at 12:43am on December 13, 2019
Decent public transport is nowhere to be found in the capital today. In fact, for years, commuters in Dhaka have been suffering from the absence...
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Dhaka urgently need infrastructure, transport policy: Akter Mahmud
Rashad Ahamad | Updated at 12:38am on December 13, 2019
Jahangirnagar University urban and regional planning professor and the president of Bangladesh Institute of Planners Akter Mahmud said that considering the socio-economic context and purchasing...
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Stop extortion, ensure governance in transport sector: Musleh Uddin Hasan
Rashad Ahamad | Updated at 12:37am on December 13, 2019
No decent public transport system emerged in Dhaka over the years as the policymakers did not emphasise its importance, said Musleh Uddin Hasan, Bangladesh University...
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French strike bites on pensions
Agence France-Presse . Paris | Updated at 02:00am on December 09, 2019
French president Emmanuel Macron will on Sunday meet ministers involved in his radical pension reform which has prompted a nationwide strike and brought key transport...
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Emphasis on infrastructure alone won’t improve traffic
| Updated at 12:00am on December 09, 2019
THE transport sector appears to have been the most happening scene, with a number of flyovers having been built and opened to the public for...
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A ruse of transport owners on wings of government inaction
| Updated at 12:00am on December 02, 2019
ROAD transport owners standing back on their decision to arrange for drug testing for bus drivers in the capital city beginning on Saturday is worrying....
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All regional highways to be four-lane: minister
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:30am on November 27, 2019
Planning minister MA Mannan on Tuesday said all the regional highways in the country would be widened to four-lanes as part of the government aims...
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Workers harass 83pc female passengers sexually in Bangladesh: study
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on November 24, 2019
Around 83 per cent women who regularly avail public transports in the country were sexual harassed by transport workers on roads, showed a report published...
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Few leaders hold transport sector hostage: experts
Shahin Akhter | Updated at 12:00am on November 24, 2019
A handful of people at the top representing the associations of road transport owners and workers control the sector by holding hostage the people in...
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