BANGLADESH is faced with many tricky challenges in its quest for transition to a truly democratic system of governance. The student-led mass uprising of July-August 2024 forced Sheikh Hasina to flee the country after her 15-year iron-fisted rule, albeit under the fa莽ade of a democratic system of government. In 2021, when the country reached...
JOE Biden keeps departing and Donald Trump keeps arriving. The soon-to-be former president and the still-future president are like comic-tragic characters in a political zombie film...
The Bus Rapid Transit held an awareness campaign and issued guidelines to ensure order and traffic management in the BRT corridors on the Gazipur-Airport route Tuesday morning...
The government on Sunday opened the Bus Rapid Transit corridor with 10 air-conditioned buses to ply between Dhaka and Gazipur to ease the commute between the two cities that till now took hours amid extreme traffic congestion...
The government is set to introduce the much-sought AC bus service under the Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation in the Bus Rapid Transit corridor on Sunday...
The Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited will import 4,40,000 more single journey tickets in the context of increasing demand and damages of previously imported tickets...
BANGLADESH stands at a crossroads, thick with tension and uncertainty. A nation that has long prided itself on the embroidery of religious and cultural coexistence is now wrestling with the cracks in its communal harmony. The timing could not be worse. Political transition is inherently unstable and in such moments of flux, the consequences...
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has refused a proposal to provide transit for bandwidth to India through Bangladesh as the transit might weaken Bangladesh鈥檚 role as a regional digital hub...
THE recent political transition in Sri Lanka, following the presidential and parliamentary elections of September and November, offers a pivotal opportunity to address entrenched issues of exclusion. In his inaugural speech at the 10th Parliament, president Anura Kumara Dissanayake emphasised his commitment to preventing racism and religious extremism in Sri Lanka. He asserted that his government...
Gonofourm鈥檚 emeritus president Dr Kamal Hossain on Saturday stressed the need for a national dialogue for the democratic transition of the country...
Speakers in a side event on Accelerating Finance for Just Transition in Bangladesh: Insights from COP 29 held at the Bangladesh pavilion of COP 29 on Thursday in Baku, Azerbaijan emphasised on international cooperation for financing just transition initiatives in Bangladesh.
Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited is likely to start selling the Rapid passes at the end of this month, said officials.
IN TIMES of political transition, such as during an interim government, a country鈥檚 identity often comes into question. How can a nation present itself positively to the world amid uncertainty? Bangladesh, under the leadership of Dr Muhammad Yunus鈥檚 interim government, faces just such a challenge. Nation branding strategies are essential for projecting...
The relocation of the lines of the utility services for the construction of mass rapid transit line 1, the first underground metro rail system in Bangladesh, is causing traffic congestion at different points in the capital...
Writer and professor Salimullah Khan on Friday at a discussion in Dhaka said that the July-August uprising resulted in only a transition of power and nothing new was born completely in the past two months...
Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited has launched the Friday operation of metro rail.
The metro rail services on the Agargaon-Motijheel section remained suspended since 9:40am on Wednesday due to the 鈥榯echnical glitch鈥� of the track...
AS BANGLADESH navigates through a pivotal phase in its political and social transformation, the necessity of maintaining communal harmony has never been more critical. The country鈥檚 rich tradition of religious tolerance, once a shining example for the region, now faces the gravest threats in recent memory. The foundations of this harmony, deeply...
BUS Rapid Transit Line 3 Project, taken up about 12 years ago to connect Gazipur to the Dhaka airport with a dedicated bus service on a 20.5-kilometre corridor, has become an example of irregularities and mismanagement of development projects. The project, once completed, is meant to carry close to half a million people every day. The estimated travel...
The deadline of the country鈥檚 first-ever bus rapid transit line project, undertaken nearly 12 years ago to connect Gazipur and Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport through a dedicated bus service over...
The government on Monday has appointed Mohammad Abdur Rouf as new managing director of the Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited, the implementing agency of metro rail services in the capital.
The two-day energy finance conference of the US-based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis began in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday with a call on the governments of Asian countries to accelerate energy transition to get rid of costly and unreliable fossil fuels...
The authorities of the metro rail services on Monday started preparatory work to run the services on Fridays soon...
IN THE 21st century, demographic transition, not an esoteric fact any more, has become a critical issue for policymakers and economists worldwide. The process affects every aspect of society, from the labour market and economic growth to healthcare systems and social security to the extent that supranational organisations such as the World Bank...
WESTERN governments have finally realised that the energy transition is happening 鈥� and that the resources needed are mostly in Chinese hands. Transition minerals, by some dubbed the 鈥榥ew oil,鈥� are the key ingredients for renewables technologies like EV batteries, solar panels, and wind turbines that make the transition happen...
The authorities said on Sunday that services of the metro rail in the capital would be resumed at least one week later when the situation would improve...
The services of metro rail remained suspended for about half an hour on Sunday as electricity supply was suspended, said officials of Dhaka Mass Transit...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday questioned what loss Bangladesh would incur if transit facilities were provided to India and insisted that Bangladesh could not keep its doors closed in this current world...
Ambassador and head of delegation of the European Union to Bangladesh Charles Whiteley on Monday said that the EU wanted to see more collaboration in the area of security and defence in Bangladesh beside their support in achieving the goal of green transition...
IN A complete disregard for citizens鈥� opinions and their need for green open space, the city authorities continue to deny access to public parks in the city. The case of Shaheed Anwara Park, named after the first woman martyr...
