Buses plying from the Syedabad bus terminal to southern districts are reportedly charging extra fare from those heading home for Eid. Moreover, due to traffic congestion in the Sayedabad Bus Terminal area, buses have to wait for hours to leave the bus terminal. This picture came to light when Syedabad bus terminal was visited on […]
In Gabtali and Sherebangla Nagar area of the capital, miscreants set fire to two passenger buses within 9 minutes. The buses were set on fire at around 11:00 pm and 11:09 pm on Saturday night. Fire Service Headquarters control room officer Rakibul Hasan confirmed this to Prothom Alo.
What we know about the bus fire at the Bangabandhu Expressway toll plaza
According to fire service sources, miscreants damaged a bus at Baddarhat in Chattogram around 9:00 pm, a pickup van at Joypurhat around 10:00 pm, another pickup van at Kendua in Netrokona at 10:30 am. On, a bus was set on fire in Cumilla around 11:30 pm. In front of Labaid Hospital in the capital at […]
Some unknown miscreants set fire to a passenger bus in Baridhara area of the capital on Wednesday evening. Rozina Akhtar, control room in-charge of fire service and civil defence, said the Baisakhi transport bus was set on fire at 7:07 pm on Wednesday. On receiving information, two fire fighting units reached the spot and immediately […]
On the second day of BNP blockade in Syamali of the capital, a bus of Welcome Paribahan was set on fire at around 6 pm on Wednesday. There is no news of any casualty in the incident. Police said the miscreants boarded the bus posing as passengers and set the bus on fire while leaving. […]
Irshad Hussain, officer-in-charge of the fire service and civil defense control room, told Prothom Alo that the upper part of the bus was burnt in the fire. They have not yet identified the bus company. According to fire service sources, the miscreants boarded the bus as passengers and set the bus on fire while alighting.
Ashraful Haleem said that so far he has come to know that Nazim was the driver’s assistant in Asim Paribahan’s bus. The vehicle was parked on the roadside and the driver and his assistant were sleeping inside and, at one point, the bus caught fire. He said that Nazim’s body has been handed over to […]
An attack on a military bus in Syria’s east killed 23 government soldiers and wounded 10 more, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) war monitor blamed on Friday on the Islamic State group, which operates sleeper cells in those countries. governs those whom he once ruled. The attack took place near the city of […]
Rabindranath Tagore said a hundred years ago in one of his essays, “We begin but do not finish, we arrange for much pomp and splendour, but do not act.” The great poet was talking about the “nature” of Bengalis who were then under British colonial rule. But the “essential character” has not changed much though […]
CNG-powered autorickshaw collides with bus in Bogura, five killed
Earlier on September 22 last year, four transport companies had started e-ticketing on a trial basis. This advanced system of fare collection was first implemented when on November 13 last year, buses of 30 companies of Mirpur zone came under e-ticketing. Problems do arise when any new system is implemented and e-ticketing was no exception. […]
