Passengers take free ride at some stations due to lack of staffers
The authorities have deployed six additional trains to accommodate the surge in commuters during Bishwa Ijtema
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has exempted value-added tax on the fares of Dhaka metro rail, which has gained a lot of popularity since the beginning of its operations.
My overdue visit to Selim Kabab Ghor at Mohammadpur caused quite a stir amongst my known associates. While I tend to ignore the uninformative “I have had better,” or “They aren’t the same anymore,” there were some who came up with actual recommendations for places that they maintain taste better than the popular Mohammadpur store.
Introduces 20,000 redesigned single-journey tickets
The Mirpur-10 metro rail station has resumed operations today, almost three months after it was damaged in July last.
Mirpur-10 metro station resumed operations this morning, almost three months after it was vandalised and consequently shut down in July
The Mirpur-10 metro rail station is set to resume operations from today, almost three months after it was vandalised and consequently shut down in July.
Operations of Kazipara Metro Rail Station will resume tomorrow (Friday), DMTCL Managing Director Mohammad Abdur Rouf said today
Metro rail authorities today appointed a Japan-Bangladesh joint-venture firm to develop the depot area for the country's first-ever underground metro rail, formally known as Mass Rapid Transit (MRT Line-1)
The country's first ever metro rail is expected to be inaugurated in the last week of December, metro rail authorities said today.."We have sent a summary to the road transport and bridges ministry seeking prime minister's appointment in the last week of December for inaugurating the metro
A Japan-Bangladesh joint-venture firm will develop the depot area for the country’s first-ever underground metro rail, MRT-1, for which physical work is expected to start next month.
Almost 95 percent work of metro rail between Uttara and Agargaon line has been completed and is expected to be finished by December, said MAN Siddique, managing director of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL).
Dhaka Metro Rail, from Uttara to Agargaon, will be operational by December this year, project officials said. They shared the information at the ECNEC meeting today (July 19, 2022).
Physical work of Bangladesh’s first underground metro rail will start within September this year.
The government has been working on building 258km of underground rail to ease up the traffic of Dhaka city. This plan consists of 11 different subway routes in Dhaka by 2050. Urban planners have called the project "costly" and "ambitious." They are saying that the project will not bring any positive change in the traffic congestion of the capital.
Can a parliamentary standing committee recommend a project directly to the prime minister without any due diligence? The law explicitly does not permit it.
In order to inform people about the metro rail—a new mode of public transport in Bangladesh, a mock-up of the coach will be displayed.
Gas supply will remain suspended today for 10 hours in Dhaka's Mirpur and adjoining areas due to relocation of gas pipelines to facilitate construction of Mass Rapid Transit Development under the Dhaka Metro Rail Project.
