Tag: Dhaka
Police returned to the streets of Dhaka after a week-long strike | News in brief
Hundreds of police stations were vandalized during student riots. The police received the wrath of the demonstrators because of the violent suppression of the demonstrations. Bangladeshi police are patrolling the…
Bangladesh: Faced with the absence of police, Muhammad Yunus, on his way to Dhaka, calls for calm
In Bangladesh, as the formation of an interim government, headed by Muhammad Yunus, becomes clearer, the absence of law enforcement is being felt. The main police union has apologized for…
clashes between police and protesters opposed to the Prime Minister in Dhaka
Bangladeshi police fired rubber bullets and tear gas this Saturday July 29 to disperse protesters who were throwing stones and blocking main roads in the capital Dhaka, calling for the…
Explosion in office building in Dhaka – dozens dead
The house is a seven-storey office building in central Dhaka. It is not clear at an initial stage what caused the explosion, but it happened on the fourth or fifth…
Bangladesh inaugurates its first skytrain line in Dhaka
It’s a small revolution for the capital of Bangladesh. Dhaka, with its 22 million inhabitants and its infernal car traffic, inaugurates its first metro line. It took 10 years to…
Dhaka gets its first metro
Published: Just now full screen Traffic congestion is costing billions in Bangladesh’s capital, but now the first subway line has opened. Stock photography Photo: Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP/TT The city of…
Dhaka gets its first metro
The Bangladeshi capital is among the world’s most densely populated and suffers badly from traffic congestion. The University of Technology has calculated that business in the giant city loses the…