BNP’s Faridpur Rally: Dhaka’s bus services with 5 southern dists halted by strike

Bus services between the capital city and five southern districts including Barishal have halted due to a strike enforced by transport workers and owners ahead the BNP's rally on Saturday in Faridpur. Transport strike has hit the southern districts of Barishal, Patuakhali, Pirojpur, Barguna and Jhalkati since 6am Friday. This meant

Bus services resume on Sylhet-Mymensingh route

Bus services have resumed on the Sylhet-Mymensingh route, after a fortnight-long strike following a strife between the public transport vehicle owners of the two districts.  The services began on Sunday night after a meeting between leaders of the bus owners' association and transport workers' bodies of the two districts broke the

Bangladesh-India bus services resume

Cross-border bus services between Bangladesh and India via ICP Agartala-Akhaura and ICP Haridaspur-Benapole resumed on Friday. The bus services had been suspended for nearly two years due to COVID-19 pandemic.  The resumption of services will help boost tourism and people-to-people ties, said the Indian High Commission in Dhaka.  The bus service via ICP

Much-hyped Dhaka Nagar Paribahan rolled out

The government has finally launched the 'Dhaka Nagar Paribahan' under bus route rationalisation programme of the two Dhaka city corporations on trial basis, aiming to streamline the public transport sector and reduce traffic jams in Dhaka. Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader inaugurated the bus services on Ghatarcha-Kanchpur route virtually

Transport services resume in cities

Public transport services have resumed in cities across Bangladesh, including in the capital Dhaka, on Thursday, albeit with a constrained number of passengers. However, inter-district bus services remained suspended during the extended lockdown period, according to restrictions imposed by the government to curb the chain of Covid-19 infections in Bangladesh. Several buses

Lockdown to continue until May 16

The Government has decided to continue the ongoing lockdown until May 16 while resuming intra-district public transport services from May 6. The decision was taken at the weekly cabinet meeting held with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair on Monday. The Premier virtually joined the meeting from her official residence Ganobhaban. Briefing