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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...

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3 of a family among 5 killed as bus hits ambulance

Five people, including three members of a family, were killed and three others injured as a bus rammed into a parked ambulance on the Dhaka-Mawa Expressway in the Nimtoli area under Sirajdikhan upazila in Munshiganj on Thursday...

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Five killed in Munshiganj road crash

Five people, including three members of the same family, were killed and three others injured when a bus rammed into a stationary ambulance on the Dhaka-Mawa Expressway in Nimtoli area of Munshiganj early Thursday.

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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.

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EXPRESSWAY OVER PANTHAKUNJA: Protest on, govt firm on park use

People from various strata have protested for months against the Tejgaon–Plassey Crossing segment of the Dhaka Elevated Expressway that destroys Panthakunja and part of Hatirjheel, but the government remains resolute about the project.

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4 highways, 8 bridges renamed

The road transport and bridges ministry on Monday changed names of four highways and eight bridges across the country, including the name of the expressway on the Dhaka-Mawa-Bhanga route...

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Seven killed in road accidents due to dense fog

At least eight people were killed in six road accidents on Friday in four districts. Six of the victims died in accidents due to poor visibility in dense fog in the morning.

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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’s shares to its co-contractor firms until arbitration in Singapore resolved the share transfer dispute...

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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...

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Incoordination holding off expressway link worrying

INCOORDINATION between two projects erecting elevated expressways — the Dhaka-Ashulia elevated expressway and the Dhaka elevated expressway — has left uncertain the connection between the expressays meant in the Dhaka airport area...

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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...

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BRTA mulls over allowing bikes on service lanes

Bangladesh Road Transport Authority said that a plan was under consideration to allow motorcycles to use only the service lanes on the Dhaka-Mawa-Bhanga Expressway instead of...