EXTORTION in the road transport regime appears to have been back to square again in full swing although the amount of money that changed hands during the authoritarian rule of the Awami League, which was toppled on August 5, in the process has come to almost a half in most cases. Yet, this is extortion, which is a crime, and it adds to the bus fare, finally burdening passengers. This also shows the failure of the interim...
The environment, forest and climate change ministry on Sunday sent a letter to the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority requesting removal of buses, minibuses, trucks and covered vans exceeded their economic life from roads in an effort to reduce air pollution...
In an effort to reduce air pollution, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has sent a letter to the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority requesting it to remove buses and minibuses older than 20 years, and trucks and covered vans older than 25 years from roads.
Director general of the department of printing and publications Md Yeasin has been made the new chairman of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority...
The validity of vehicle documents and driving licences has been given auto-extension till September 16 this year as these services under the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority at present remains suspended...
The ruling Awami League general secretary and road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader will exchange views with former student leaders on Wednesday...
The police arrested the president of a local unit of Sramik League and another person for their alleged involvement in setting a bus of the state-owned Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation on fire in Chattogram city...
THE death of three students in road accidents on an average every day, which has happened for five years and a half, as a Road Safety Foundation report published on July 13 says, is as concerning as any other such death. The report says that at least 5,619 students died in traffic accidents in January 2019鈥揓une 2024, noting that 611 students...
THE Road Transport Authority reports that 215 people died and 278 became wounded in 216 accidents around Eid time. The chair of the BRTA has urged the public to adhere to traffic laws and criticised civic groups for their recent reports on road accidents...
A Bangladesh Road Transport Authority report revealed on Tuesday that 215 people were killed and 278 others injured in 216 road crashes between June 13 and June 24 during the last Eid journeys...
Many service seekers in the capital are complaining about delay at banks in paying their fees to the banks working jointly with the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority...
The state-owned Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation will start its six-day special bus services across the country from June 13 ahead of Eid-ul-Azha...
The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority has restarted an initiative after 12 years to bring the motor vehicle workshops under registration as required by the Road Transport Act, 2018...
THIS is a good piece of news that the railway authorities, which run keeping to the Railways Act 1890, are updating the legislation understandably to keep pace with the changed context of the modern world...
The decision not to allow battery-run vehicles on roads in the capital city is welcome. The road transport and bridges minister at the first meeting of the Road Transport Authority advisory council committee on May 15 instructed authorities not to allow battery-run vehicles...
The road transport and bridges minister, Obaidul Quader, on Wednesday instructed the authorities concerned not to allow battery-run vehicles on Dhaka city roads...
The government has fixed the maximum speed limit for motor vehicles at 80 kilometres per hour in an attempt to reduce road crashes...
The statistics of the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority showed that the number of fatal road crash victims during this Eid-ul-Fitr holidays increased compared with last year...
At least 77 people were killed and 109 more were injured in 70 road crashes across the country between April 10 and 14 amid the Eid-ul-Fitr vacations, according to the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority...
THE death of an eight-year-old boy having been crushed between two buses at Gulshan in Dhaka on April 4 yet again shows that the authorities concerned have allowed the road to continue to be a death trap for citizens...