Woman dies on city footpath
An unidentified woman died on a footpath in Shahbagh area of Dhaka Wednesday morning...
An unidentified woman died on a footpath in Shahbagh area of Dhaka Wednesday morning...
IF DANTE had been born in Dhaka, I suspect he wouldn’t have written about nine circles of hell — he would have simply described a morning commute involving the BRTA and a short stroll along a Bangladeshi footpath. Because truly, what else but infernal suffering could explain a place where getting a driving licence requires divine intervention, a briefcase full of...
THE nuisance that errant motorcyclists create on footpaths is no less severe than the hazard that they create on roads. According to different studies, motorcyclists tend to violate traffic rules more than others while motorcycles are consistently found to be involved in the maximum number of road accidents every year...
A REPORT that Dhaka’s north city authorities and the city police have prepared says that about 61 per cent of all fatal victims of road accidents that took place in the areas under the north city authority jurisdiction in 2023 were pedestrians. The report was made public at a meeting on road safety that the Road Transport and Highways Division and the Bloomberg...
The Dhaka North City Corporation, in separate drives in the capital’s Agargaon and Uttara areas on Wednesday, evicted about 400 illegal shops that had been set up occupying footpaths and roads...
A HOME ministry affidavit, submitted to the High Court on April 29, says that local political leaders and ward councillors are involved in running business by grabbing footpaths in Dhaka. A five-member committee, formed in May 2023 to investigate illegal businesses...
Local political persons and ward councillors are directly involved in running business by grabbing footpaths in Bangladesh capital Dhaka, said a home ministry affidavit submitted to the High Court on Monday....