Foisal Ahmed

Pedestrians pass through a muddy road on the Demra-Jatrabari highway. Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed
Infrastructure

Slow Demra-Jatrabari 4-lane project compounds people’s sufferings

Tyre raring to roll but for lack of policy support
Economy

Tyre raring to roll but for lack of policy support

People gathering in front of BRTA for licensing. Photo: Noor-A-Alam/TBS
Transport

Smart driving licence backlog keeps growing

Vehicles take risky turns at an unauthorised U-turn on the Matuail-Sanarpar route. The photo was taken recently. Photo: TBS
Infrastructure

Matuail’s accident-prone illegal U-turns to be finally closed

Data from 2016, the latest available, shows Bangladesh's coastal populations generated 0.36 million tonnes of inadequately managed plastic waste. Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed Paulash
Environment

Poly packaging nightmare

Bangladesh plastics aim at global market pie
Economy

Bangladesh plastics aim at global market pie

The country's first overhead metro train on a performance test run from Uttara's Diabari to Pallabi on Sunday. Photo: Saad Abdullah
Transport

Wider roads, clean air make residents happy after years of metro rail work

Vehicles stand still in traffic congestions on the Dhaka-Gazipur highway. The government took up the Bus Rapid Transit project in 2012 to ease traffic congestion on the highway but the project is yet to be completed. Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed
Infrastructure

Country’s most productive Gazipur blighted by nightmarish road

63 out of 99 bridges too low for smooth navigation: BIWTA
Bangladesh

63 out of 99 bridges too low for smooth navigation: BIWTA

Inter-district public transports ply on Dhaka-Aricha highway at Hemayetpur in Savar on Saturday. Photo: Mumit M
Transport

Public transports still counting losses due to passenger drought

Low-income people queue up to buy rice and flour at discounted prices from a truck of Dhaka Rationing at Badda on Sunday. Due to the ongoing lockdown, subsidised food has become an essential component of survival for the low-income groups. Photo: Mumit M
Bangladesh

Low-income people’s food, protein intake down in lockdown

Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed/TBS
Bangladesh

Lockdown: People coming to and leaving Dhaka in increasing numbers

A Rickshaw puller sits idly on his carrier in absence of passengers amid an intermittent rain across the county. Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed/TBS
Bangladesh

Virus curbs: Commuters bear the brunt