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New ticket-based pink bus service on Dhaka roads from tomorrow

Approximately 2,610 pink buses operated by 21 different companies will serve routes from Abdullahpur to various destinations across the capital.

The types of passengers you meet on a bus

Dhaka is not that big of a city. But there are way too many people, and while the number of buses is not little either, it’s far from enough. The daily bus commutes in Dhaka are tedious but if one is willing, there are plenty of drama and stories to find. Today, we will count the five types of p

Govt to buy 340 buses from S Korea

Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation is going to take up a project to import 340 buses and other equipment from South Korea.

Why we need more female public bus services

The problems faced in public transport are further intensified when the passenger is a woman.

CCTV on buses but a drop in the ocean

Scale up such initiatives for a safe city for women

Commuters suffer for lack of transport on Savar highways

The number of homebound people on Dhaka-Aricha and Nabinagar-Chandra highways in Savar increased this noon. However, the number of vehicles did not.

How will Eid journey be this time?

Another Eid is nearing, and Dhaka dwellers are planning to leave the city and head home for the holiday. The country is celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr with a nine-day holiday – giving people the perfect opportunity to spend time with their near and dear ones outside the capital, at home, or at tourist destinations. People in Dhaka can move around with relative ease; however, holiday-makers are expected to face a difficult situation.

Bus of bandits

Posing as passengers, a gang used to rob valuables from people travelling in a bus on the Dhaka-Aricha highway.

Football: Vietnam apologises for Indonesia team bus attack

Vietnamese football authorities apologised on Thursday after fans hurled stones at the Indonesian team bus shortly after their Suzuki Cup semi-final tie in Hanoi, breaking a window and injuring two of the visiting team's staff.

April 25, 2022
April 25, 2022

How will Eid journey be this time?

Another Eid is nearing, and Dhaka dwellers are planning to leave the city and head home for the holiday. The country is celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr with a nine-day holiday – giving people the perfect opportunity to spend time with their near and dear ones outside the capital, at home, or at tourist destinations. People in Dhaka can move around with relative ease; however, holiday-makers are expected to face a difficult situation.

November 4, 2017
November 4, 2017

Bus of bandits

Posing as passengers, a gang used to rob valuables from people travelling in a bus on the Dhaka-Aricha highway.

December 8, 2016
December 8, 2016

Football: Vietnam apologises for Indonesia team bus attack

Vietnamese football authorities apologised on Thursday after fans hurled stones at the Indonesian team bus shortly after their Suzuki Cup semi-final tie in Hanoi, breaking a window and injuring two of the visiting team's staff.

May 12, 2016
May 12, 2016

LVG puts on brave face

Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal put on a brave face and refused to blame an attack on his team's bus for the serious setback to his side's Champions League hopes at West Ham United.

March 21, 2016
March 21, 2016

3 killed as 2 buses smash car

Three of a family, including two women, were killed as two buses rammed their car from behind one after another in the capital's Khilkhet area yesterday.

March 5, 2016
March 5, 2016

3 killed in Madaripur road crash

At least three people are killed and as many injured when a bus rammed a three-wheeler on Dhaka-Barisal highway in Madaripur sadar upazila.

January 22, 2016
January 22, 2016

3 killed in Patuakhali road crash

Three people are killed as a bus hit a motorcycle in Golachipa upazila of Patuakhali.

December 14, 2015
December 14, 2015

41 killed after bus falls off bridge in Argentina

At least 41 people, most of them police officers, are killed after a bus fell off a bridge in north-west Argentina, officials say.

December 7, 2015
December 7, 2015

1 killed in Dhaka road crash

A woman killed and two others critically injured as a bus hit them in Kamalapur area of Dhaka, police source said.

October 23, 2015
October 23, 2015

French bus crash: Pensioners killed in truck collision (video)

At least 42 pensioners on a day trip are killed after their bus collided with a truck and burst into flames in south-western France.