The scenography for the project was made by Paris-based multinational architecture, art, and design group Golem. It has been created with the support of Harper Collins India. The installation invites visitors to enter a forest of enormous pages where scenes from the book stand as tall as trees.
Bangladesh is now one of the countries that boasts of a metro rail service.
A total 3,857 passengers journeyed on the metro today, the first day the country’s metro rail service was opened to public.
A total of 3,857 passengers journeyed on the metro yesterday, the first day the country’s metro rail service was opened to public.
Twelve-year-old Imam Hasan Eyaad was over the moon after taking his first-ever ride on the metro rail yesterday morning.
Metro Rail passengers can buy multipurpose pass cards till 10pm today, MAN Siddique, managing director of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited, said today.
Five out of six vending machines at Agargaon Metro Rail Station have been inoperative since morning, causing delay for passengers in buying passes for their commute..The authorities are now providing passes from four manual booths and from one vending machine on the first day of the metro
The authorities will hold a review meeting on the overall situation of the first-day operation of the metro rail, said MAN Siddique, managing director of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited.
A day after its inauguration, the country's first metro rail is now open for general passengers.
Mariam Afiza, the driver who operated the inaugural journey of the country’s first metro rail, said it was a dream fulfilled that the prime minster and other dignitaries were her passengers on the momentous occasion.
At precisely 1:38pm came the glorious moment. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina waved the green flag and the country’s first-ever metro began to roll, marking a major leap in the Bangladesh’s transport sector.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said through the opening of the metro rail, the Awami League government has put another feather in Bangladesh’s cap.
The Japanese Embassy in Dhaka has said the opening of metro rail, with Japanese support, marks a historic moment.
