In Abdullahpur of the capital, miscreants set fire to a BRTC double-decker bus at around 7 pm on Saturday evening. Rozina Akhtar, an official at the fire service headquarters, confirmed this to Prothom Alo. North East police station inspector (investigation) Rakibu Haq said miscreants set fire to a double-decker BRTC bus in Abdullahpur. The bus…
Public transport started on Dhaka Elevated Expressway
Government agency BRTC has started operating bus services on the Dhaka Elevated Expressway at 11:15 am today, Monday. Road Transport and Highways Division Secretary ABM Amin Ullah inaugurated the bus service at Manik Miyan Avenue in the capital. BRTC Chairman Mohammad Tajul Islam was present. After the inauguration, the first bus left for Jasimuddin Road,…
Dhaka Elevated Expressway: BRTC bus service to be started today
He said that since BRTC operates buses all over Dhaka, more routes would be added to the metro rail passenger service if necessary. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the country’s first metro rail service on Wednesday and passengers will be allowed to travel the next day.
Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) has launched wifi internet service on ten of its buses in the capital today. It only trial period; if it is successful BRTC will expand this service. They have named the buses as digital bus. Ten BRTC buses which ply between Uttara and Motijheel will have four 3G routers and…
A girder of an under construction bridge on Kalapara-Kuakata road was collapsed when the workers were trying to lift if with hydraulic jack. They were lifting the 129-tonne girder to place rubber bearing on both ends of the girder. At that time one hydraulic jack broke, the girder tilted and eventually collapsed on a BRTC…
Bangladesh Army will supervise approach road project of much hyped Padma bridge. They will also supervise two service areas of the bridge project. Prime minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate the construction work after the Eid. The contract between army and communication ministry is signed at Setu Bhaban today. Project director Shafiqul Islam and…
ommunications Minister Obaidul Quader definitely pronounced which a little 100 double-decker buses of Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) would be since for a operate of propagandize starting students in a city as partial of shortening traffic jam. The Minister came up with a stipulation Sunday whilst addressing a contention with chiefs of assorted schools orderly…
A publisher was killed as a bus strike his motorcycle from during a back of as good as afterwards ran him over during a capital’s Kakrail yesterday. Victim Dinesh Das, 47, died upon a mark around 8:45am, military said. He was upon his approach after dropping his class-III daughter during Viqarunnisa Noon School during Bailey…
Journalist Nikhil Bhadra mislaid his leg yesterday, hours after the BRTC bus ran him over in front of Jatiya Press Club in the morning. Witnesses pronounced the bus run by BRTC (Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation) strike the 38-year-old comparison contributor of Bangla any day Kaler Kantha around 9:45am whilst he was channel the road. Doctors…
Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) today starts selling tickets for travel from the capital to different districts ahead of Eid-ul-Azha while Bangladesh Railway will sell tickets from October 27 to October 31. The advance bus tickets will be available at the city’s four bus depots–Motijheel, Pallabi, Kalyanpur and Joarsahara, said BRTC General Manager (operations) Quazi…
Railway will sell advance ticket from 21st August to 25th August to cope with rush of homebound passengers on the Holy Eid-ul-Fitr, the biggest Muslim festival. Railway in also introduce 43 rail coaches before the Eid. Tickets for 26th August will be available on 21st August, similarly, other dates are: for 27th on 22nd, for…
Narayanganj district is adjacent to Dhaka, it is possible to reside there even if one’s working place is in the centre of Dhaka. But communication between Dhaka and Narayanganj is a matter great sorrow. So many people like to stay in Dhaka, which creating extra pressure on accommodation and causing rising house rent rising in…
In the colonial era local industries was destroyed by the rulers. They wanted to make their colony as their market. After the liberation people expected promotion of local industries. But it didn’t happen in all cases. There was a time when Bangladesh Railway produced its own carriages. Canadian government even offered assistance to make locomotive…