The newly inaugurated metro rail has become the canvas for a marketing strategy that teeters on the brink of visual overload. The pervasive spread of advertisements of a certain refrigerator brand, plastered over every conceivable surface within the metro's interiors, has sparked a debate on the essence of tasteful advertising in public transportation - a conversation the context of which extends far beyond the borders of Bangladesh.

The government has given its approval to form a dedicated Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) police unit to ensure comprehensive security measures for the metro rail system

Metro rail has started picking up and dropping passengers at the Mirpur-10 station from this morning

The government is going to construct another metro rail line, whose construction cost per km is some 35 percent higher than that of a similar metro line.

The 31.241-km first-ever underground and elevated MRT-1 will run between Airport-Kamalapur and Purbachal-Natun Bazar-Pitalganj. 

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There are growing concerns among citizens regarding smooth mobile network coverage inside the trains.

The limited launch of the metro tomorrow is unlikely to make any real dent in Dhaka's traffic problem

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Finance Minister AMA Muhith says that the government is mulling creating an ‘independent metropolitan communication authority’ to ease traffic congestion in different important cities including Dhaka Metropolitan City.

A Japanese firm signs a deal to develop land and depot on the Metro Rail Line-6. It will do sand compaction piling, dynamic compaction and land filling.

Extra measures are to be taken in the Dhaka metro rail project to check noise, shock and vibration in key places like Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban, Dhaka University and National Museum.

The revised RSTP has been many years in the making. The inclusion of a project that has no part in the extensive network of roads-and-rail plan makes us wonder why it has been approved in the first place. From the looks of it the decision to go for this controversial flyover has been made on political grounds and not technical ones