BRTC double-decker crashes into Farmgate pillar
A Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation double-decker bus rammed into a pillar of the Elevated Expressway at Farmgate in Dhaka city on Tuesday, causing a brief traffic disruption on the busy road...
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People鈥檚 court for halting DEE link road thru Hatirjheel, Panthakunja
A people鈥檚 court on Friday ordered an immediate suspension of all activities related to the under-construction Dhaka Elevated Expressway link road through Hatirjheel and Panthakunja Park in the capital Dhaka.
Panthakunja Park should be restored
NEARLY six months have passed since the Bangladesh Tree Protection Movement began a sit-in inside the partially destroyed Panthakunja Park, one of the capital鈥檚 last parks, calling for a halt to the construction of a section of the Dhaka elevated expressway from the Film Development Corporation to the Plassey crossing. Protesters say that the construction of the elevated...
PANTHAKUNJA PARK PROTECTION: Protests on for months
More than five months on from the start of a sit-in programme against the construction of a Dhaka Elevated Expressway link road through the Panthakunja Park at Karwan Bazar in the capital Dhaka, conservationists are yet to receive any response from...
157 eminent citizens condemn destroying Panthakunja, Hatirjheel
Eminent citizens, politicians, rights activists, academics and cultural figures among them, issued a joint statement on Tuesday, demanding the cancellation of the Dhaka Elevated Expressway link road construction that has already led to the destruction of Panthakunja Park and a section of the Hatirjheel Lake...
Green activists send letter to chief adviser seeking independent commission
On the 143rd day of its ongoing sit-in protest, the Bangladesh Tree Protection Movement (Bangladesh Gachh Raksha Andolon) on Monday sent a letter to the interim government chief adviser seeking an independent commission to probe over the demand to cancel the proposed link road of the Dhaka Elevated Expressway from FDC to Palashi.
EXPRESSWAY OVER PANTHAKUNJA: Protest on, govt firm on park use
People from various strata have protested for months against the Tejgaon鈥揚lassey Crossing segment of the Dhaka Elevated Expressway that destroys Panthakunja and part of Hatirjheel, but the government remains resolute about the project.
Cat trapped in beam under Dhaka elevated expressway rescued after 11-hour effort
After around 11 and a half hours of effort on Sunday, the Dhaka North City Corporation rescued a cat that was trapped in a beam under the Dhaka Elevated Expressway, right above the Mohakhali Flyover in Dhaka.
Vehicles to be sued for speeding on elevated expressway from Feb 21
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police will start filing video cases against those vehicles that cross speed of 100-kilometre per hour on the Dhaka Elevated Expressway for speeding from February 21.
Ctg expressway renamed after July uprising martyr Wasim
The Chattogram Elevated Expressway has been renamed after Wasim Akram, the first martyr of the July-August uprising in Chattogram, to preserve the memory of his sacrifice for future generations....
Dhaka Elevated Expressway: Protest continues for cancellation of Tejgaon-Plassey segment
Speakers, including local residents and environmentalists, on Friday continue to hold protest, demanding the cancellation of the Dhaka Elevated Expressway segment from Tejgaon to Plassey Crossing via Panthakunja Park and Hatirjheel Lake.
Saving Panthakunja park, Hatirjheel lake, trees: Protesters continue sit-in for 10 days
Protesters have been staging a 24-hour sit-in at Panthakunja Park in Dhaka鈥檚 Banglamotor area for 10 consecutive days, demanding the cancellation of the Dhaka Elevated Expressway segment from...
Protection of parks from elevated expressway demanded
Urban planners and environmental activists at a human chain protested the construction of the Dhaka Elevated Expressway segment from Karwanbazar to Plassey Crossing, citing the destruction of Panthakunja Park and Hatirjheel lake in the capital...
No motorcycles, trailers on Ctg expressway
The Chattogram Development Authority is going to ban the movement of motorcycles and trailers on the elevated expressway between Lalkhan Bazar and Shah Amanat International Airport from...
Dispute between foreign companies ends
After almost a year-long legal battle, the dispute between the three foreign investment and shareholding companies under the Dhaka Elevated Expressway project has come to an end recently.
No progress in remaining 25pc work of Dhaka elevated expressway
The remaining 25 per cent works of the Dhaka Elevated Expressway project, which would take less than a year to complete, has been at a near halt since early this year over...
Elevated expressway鈥檚 Mohakhali ramp opens to traffic
The authorities on Thursday afternoon opened the entrance ramp of Dhaka Elevated Expressway in Mohakhali area in Dhaka after about a month...
Toll collection on elevated expressway begins after 23 days
The authorities began the toll collection on the Dhaka Elevated Expressway on Sunday afternoon, 23 days after they had suspended the collection...
Maintain status quo over share transfer: SC
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the foreign companies, implementing the Dhaka Elevated Expressway project, to maintain the status quo over transferring the major shareholder鈥檚 shares to its co-contractor firms until arbitration in Singapore resolved the share transfer dispute...
Mayor Taposh fears water stagnation due to Hatirjheel earth-filling
Dhaka south city mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh said on Wednesday that he feared that the people living in the Hatirjheel catchment areas might suffer for water stagnation in the forthcoming rainy season due to earth-filling at Hatirjheel project by the Dhaka Elevated Expressway authorities...
Incoordination holding off expressway link worrying
INCOORDINATION between two projects erecting elevated expressways 鈥� the Dhaka-Ashulia elevated expressway and the Dhaka elevated expressway 鈥� has left uncertain the connection between the expressays meant in the Dhaka airport area...
SC orders companies to maintain status quo over share transfer
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the project implementing foreign companies to maintain status quo over...
Connection between 2 expressways in limbo
The lack of coordination among the authorities in implementing development projects becomes evident once again in a latest instance in which the building works to connect the two under-construction expressways, to be done in the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport area in the capital, remains in limbo...
Dhaka elevated expressway construction halted after row among China, Thai cos
The works of the Dhaka Elevated Expressway project have come to a near halt following altercations between the three foreign investment and shareholding companies implementing the project over ownership of shares...