Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) is set to buy 440 new buses, including 100 electric buses for the first time in the country, to enhance and upgrade its services in Dhaka, Chattogram and different inter-district routes.

Passengers may not get the best out of 600 new BRTC buses bought recently as the state-run corporation has a track record of ruining the vehicles well before their ages hit double digits.

Passengers may not get the best out of 600 new BRTC buses bought recently as the state-run corporation has a track record of ruining the vehicles well before their ages hit double digits.

Two women were killed and at least five people injured as a train hit a BRTC bus on a railway crossing and dragged it around 150 yards along the track in the city's Sholoshohor area yesterday morning.