Asad Gate News Today

Tk 1,769.21Cr consultancy Budget Dhaka MRT LINE-5: The Planning Commission has asked for an explanation regarding the amount metro rail authorities sought for consultancy services for the construction of a new metro line.

How to get to BRAC University's new campus in Merul Badda by bus from different parts of Dhaka.

Traffic movement increased across the capital yesterday, on the first day of the sixth spell of the 48-hour blockade called by BNP and its allies to protest the schedule for the 12th parliamentary elections.

The government is moving forward with the mega plan to build a 140-kilometer metro rail network in Dhaka and its adjacent areas by 2030 to reduce traffic congestion and pollution, two major problems the city of 2 crore people is facing severely.

When I was born, my skin was dark, like my grandfather’s, in whose arms I discovered my first home. Relatives old and new, whose disappointment was being nursed by my parents’ fair complexions, looked from afar as my rotund cheeks melted into the sleeves of my dada’s discolored half-sleeve shirt.

An Awami League leader of Manikganj was run over by a truck while he was chasing a mugger who snatched his mobile phone in the capital's Asad Gate area last night.

The government is set to open the electricity distribution system for the private sector after a similar move to end the import and supply monopoly of fuel oil a month ago. The matter will be announced within this month, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid said on Sunday at a workshop held at the Bidyut Bhaban in the capital. "The government is

Bangladesh is all set to step into a new era of commuting with a new mode of public transport that has never been seen before -- the electricity-powered metro rail of Dhaka.

Two persons suffered burn injuries as a private car caught fire in the capital's Asad Gate area last night.

Two persons suffered burn injuries as a car caught fire in the capital’s Asad Gate area Thursday night.