Challenges and Solutions for Metro Rail Services in Dhaka: A Critical Analysis

And that is why people accepted all the troubles, inconveniences and delays that came during the construction of Metro Rail. When metro rail services stop, the heartbeats of Dhaka residents stop. They get upset when there are disruptions in service. As BBC Bengali journalist Akbar Hossain commented on social media, it is becoming increasingly difficult […]

Traffic will remain closed in Abdullahpur, Bhogra, Kamarpara on Sunday morning

As was done during the first phase of Vishwa Ijtema, the Ghazipur Metropolitan Police (GMP) has issued some traffic instructions for the convenience of devotees traveling to and from the venue. GMP Commissioner Mullah Nazrul Islam said that vehicular movement from Tongi to Bhogara Bypass on Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway, Kamarpara Road, Abdullapur to Bypile on Ashulia […]

With few penetration tests, Southeast Asia could reap the most from China’s travel revival

Southeast Asia’s tourist economies are set to be major beneficiaries of China’s easing of travel restrictions as it steers clear of pre-entry COVID-19 tests that Europe, Japan and the United States have imposed on Chinese visitors . Even as the virus tears through its 1.4 billion people, the world’s second-biggest economy is opening its borders […]

Flights to and from the Philippine capital were canceled due to technical reasons.

Philippine authorities halted flights in and out of Manila on New Year’s Day due to air traffic control problems, leaving thousands of passengers stranded. A total of 282 flights at Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) were either delayed, canceled or diverted to other regional airports, affecting about 56,000 passengers, the airport operator said on […]