Anarchy reigns on roads

BNP has a hand: Quader * Transport law impractical: Fakhrul

News Report: Passenger and freight transportation both crumbled for a wildcat strike-blockade action against a new transport law while people were smarting from exponential price rises. There had been unscheduled and isolated passenger-transport strikes in different districts and regions since the government enforced the Road Transport Act 2018, but the situation took a turn for the worse Wednesday as freight transporters also struck and put up road barricades amid some acts of coercion against who defied, witnesses said. "No inter-district buses did depart from the terminals in the capital as the strikers blocked the gateways to the city in the morning," says a firsthand account of what reporters from the scenes described as "anarchic situation". On many short-and l...  read more>>