CASES of trains ramming vehicles on the level crossing, leaving people dead, hardly appear to be ending even after a noticeable number of such accidents. At least seven died after a train had hit a battery-powered auto-rickshaw at Burichang in Cumilla on November 26. Railway authorities say that the level crossing was unauthorised and unattended. In a business-as-usual move, a committee was formed...
At least seven people, including four women, were killed and three more injured as a train hit a battery-powered auto-rickshaw at a level crossing at Kalikapur area under 鈥嬧�婤urichang upazila in Cumilla on Tuesday...
Passenger鈥檚 rights activists on Monday demanded immediate formation of guidelines for the proper management and control on the movement of battery-run rickshaws and other small vehicles...
The Appellate Division on Monday issued a one-month status quo on the High Court order that banned the unauthorised and unlicensed battery-run rickshaws from plying the Dhaka city streets amid protests...
Jahangirnagar University鈥檚 security officials handed over a battery-run rickshaw driver to police on Monday, following allegations of reckless driving that caused the death of a first-year student on November 19...
Several thousand battery-run rickshaw drivers on Sunday blocked several roads in the capital city pressing for their 12-point charter of demands that included allowing them to ply city roads...
Battery-run rickshaw drivers on Saturday announced to hold a sit-in programme in front of the National Press Club in the capital today for realising their demand to scrap the High Court鈥檚 November 19 order to stop plying of battery-run rickshaws on Dhaka city roads...
Battery-run rickshaw drivers blocked Jurain crossing for hours and clashed with the police on Friday as they continued protests for the third consecutive day since Wednesday, a day after...
Battery-run rickshaw drivers blocked several roads in the capital demanding access to the main roads of the city on Wednesday, a day after the High Court ordered a ban on battery-run rickshaws on Dhaka streets...
Protests erupted on the Jahangirnagar University campus on Wednesday, demanding justice for the death of a female student who was hit by a battery-run auto-rickshaw on Tuesday...
A fresher student of Jahangirnagar University was killed being hit by a battery-run auto-rickshaw on the campus on Tuesday evening...
Unidentified miscreants murdered an auto-rickshaw driver before stealing his vehicle at Sirajdikhan upazila of Munshiganj district on Saturday...
ENFORCEMENT failure lurks as the authorities meant to keep road regime disciplined have failed to keep unfit and unauthorised vehicles off the road. Unfit vehicles such as buses, trucks, pickups and privately owned cars continue to create chaos on the road in a few ways. Whilst unfit vehicles keep emitting black smoke, adding to the air pollution which often...
Heavy rainfall on Friday afternoon submerged several parts of Dhaka, leading to immense suffering for commuters.
Two passengers of a battery-run auto-rickshaw were killed and seven others, including the auto-rickshaw driver, were injured after a bus rammed their vehicle in Pabna on Sunday morning, said the police.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police traffic department has begun drives against unauthorised battery-run rickshaws plying main roads in the city ignoring traffic rules after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina regime on August 5...
A battery-run auto-rickshaw driver was stabbed to death allegedly by a group of muggers at Basabo slope of Khilgaon flyover in Dhaka on Saturday...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police traffic division announced on Saturday that battery-run auto-rickshaws, locally made three-wheelers, and other slow-moving vehicles would no longer be allowed on main roads in the city...
The Natore district police withdrew assistant sub-inspector Abdus Selim on Saturday night after a video of him beating a rickshaw puller went viral earlier that day...
Visual artist AFM Moniruzzaman Shipu has portrayed rickshaws and their significance as a mode of transport at his solo exhibition under way in...
The economic contribution of battery-run auto-rickshaws in Bangladesh is Tk 97,625 crore, revealed a study by the Coastal Livelihood and Environmental Action Network...
Protests are on the rise in reaction to a recent initiative to hike up the fare and daily deposit amount of the CNG-run auto-rickshaws running inside the Dhaka and Chattogram metropolitan cities...
Leaders of Rickshaw, Battery Rickshaw-Van and Easy bike Sramik Union on Tuesday submitted a memorandum to the road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader, demanding...
The government has backtracked on its decision to ban operations of unauthorised battery-run rickshaws in Dhaka city amid street protests by...
Over a dozen people were injured as battery-run auto-rickshaw pullers clashed with police in Dhaka on Sunday, demanding the withdrawal of...
At least four people were killed and more than 50 injured as two groups of auto-rickshaw drivers clashed for two hours at Baniachaung upazila in Habiganj on Thursday afternoon...
The Dhaka North City Corporation has started providing umbrellas, oral saline, and drinking water to rickshaw pullers for their health safety amid the ongoing heatwave...
Two people were killed in a head-on collision between an ambulance and a CNG-powered auto-rickshaw on the Pabna-Rajshahi highway at Singa in Pabna on Saturday night...
