Uber reports Tk 5,500cr economic activity in 2024
Uber, a ridesharing platform in Bangladesh, has reported Tk 5,500 crore economic activity in 2024 in the country...
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Cancellation of an enforcement order is not the answer
THE Bangladesh Road Transport Authority鈥檚 hasty decision to cancel its order on enforcing a meter-based fare for CNG-run auto rickshaws, as stipulated in the Road Transport Act 2018, is yet another case of poor governance that has been plaguing the public transport sector. On February 10, the BRTA sent a letter to the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, reminding them to file...
BRTC to build buses from March
State-run Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation is going to start building single-decker buses from March with the aim of reducing the import of buses.
Airbus, Boeing eye India鈥檚 鈥榮oaring skies鈥�
Air traffic is booming in India, even though only a tiny fraction of its people fly each year, and manufacturers are seeking lucrative deals at the flagship Aero India exhibition from Monday...
DTCA should learn from past mistakes
THE government plan on a bus route franchise to streamline public transports in Dhaka could clash with a similar programme that the transport owners鈥� association has taken up. This is worrying. The road transport adviser in December 2024 announced that the government would introduce company-based bus operation on nine routes in Dhaka on February...
Traffic sergeants to carry arms against muggers: DMP chief
Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Md Sajjad Ali announced plans to arm traffic sergeants with small arms to combat rising incidents of mugging in the capital...
Container transport in CTG at halt
Prime mover and trailer workers in Chattogram on Wednesday went on strike, demanding justice for a prime mover driver and his assistants who were allegedly assaulted during an altercation between security guards and transport workers at the DC Park in Sitakunda鈥檚 Faujdarhat area...
Hellmann to buy 40pc stake in Summit鈥檚 CTSL
Hellmann Worldwide Logistics, a global logistics company based in Germany, has announced its plan to acquire a 40 per cent stake in Container Transportation Services Limited, a subsidiary of Summit Alliance Port Limited...
Water transport workers call off strike after 45 hours
The water transport workers have called off an indefinite strike they had enforced demanding justice for seven murders on a vessel in the River Meghna and enhanced security after...
Water transport workers鈥� strike: Ctg port paralysed as strike continues for second day
An indefinite strike by water transport workers brought activities, including cargo unloading, at the Chattogram port, and at its outer anchorages to a grinding halt for the second consecutive day on Saturday.聽
BRTA offices to remain聽open on Saturdays
In a move aimed at enhancing customer service, the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority has announced that its offices will remain open on Saturdays, the weekly holiday in the country.
Govt to take action against BRTA if services not improved within one month
The government will take action against officials of the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority from top to bottom if it does not improve its services within the next one month...
12 injured in transport workers鈥� clash in Rajshahi
At least 12 people were injured on Tuesday when transport workers attacked CNG-powered three-wheeler drivers in Rajshahi city, following a feud between the two groups over a prior incident, said police...
BRTC to launch AC bus service in BRT corridor today
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...
Air passenger numbers to top five billion in 2025: IATA
Air passenger numbers are forecast to top five billion for the first time next year and the sector鈥檚 revenues will break the trillion-dollar barrier, the global aviation body IATA said on Tuesday...
Bangladesh owes $196m in blocked airline funds
The International Air Transport Association has once again called on Bangladesh to immediately release $196 million in blocked revenues owed to foreign airlines, highlighting that the restriction contravenes international agreements...
A city still asleep on women鈥檚 safety
FOR most women, going out of the house requires a lot of planning. From crowded streets and public transport to workplaces, the challenges that women face in staying safe are constant and exhausting. Citizens now call for women鈥檚 safety on the road and in public spaces. Everyone wants change. Women want to walk without the fear of being harassed or attacked...
Tools against corruption should not be rhetorical
PASSPORT, road transport administration, law enforcement and judicial services have come up to be the top four corrupt services sectors from 2017 to 2023, as Transparency International Bangladesh surveys for 2023, 2021 and 2017, the latest three of the surveys that the corruption watchdog have published since 1997, show. In the 2021 and 2017 surveys, the most corrupt service sectors were the same and in the...
Bus worker dies in fire from mosquito coil
A teenage transport worker asleep in a parked bus was burned to death in a fire triggered by a burning mosquito coil in Khulna in the early hours of Friday.
Transport strike in Benapole continues for 2nd consecutive day
Commuters faced severe difficulties on Sunday as the indefinite transport strike, enforced by long-route transport owners in Benapole, continued for the second consecutive day...
Half of bus routes in capital inactive: DTCA
Over half of the routes for the Dhaka city buses are now in inactive condition, said officials of Dhaka Transport Coordination Authority on Thursday...
Bangladesh Biman receives ISAGO, RA3 certificates
Biman Bangladesh Airlines has recently received the IATA Safety Audit for Ground Operations certificate from the International Air Transport Association as the highest recognition in the ground handling sector...
TfL to support DNCC for improving traffic management
Transport for London will provide support to Dhaka North City Corporation to improve the traffic system of Dhaka.
Rajshahi-C鈥檔awabganj bus service suspended
The inter-district bus communication between Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj was suspended on Monday after Rajshahi transport workers enforced a strike in the morning protesting against the attack on their fellows...
Extortion in Rajshahi transport sector continues
After taking over the Rajshahi Road Transport Group office immediately after the fall of the authoritarian regime of Sheikh Hanisa on August 5, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party...
Holistic approach needed to discipline city road regime
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...
Extortion in road transport regime should end early
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...
Extortions back in Bangladesh's transport sector
The extortions in the country鈥檚 transport sector have got almost back in full swing from the first week of September as police, transport company owners and political leaders allegedly started taking...
BRTA requested to remove old vehicles from roads
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...
Ministry asks BRTA to remove unfit vehicles from streets
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.