Autorickshaw

BUET Professor Md Ehsan stands beside his newly designed autorickshaw—just 3.2 metres long and 1.5 metres wide—built for two passengers to ensure greater stability and prevent tipping. With a safety-focused top speed of 30 km/h, the vehicle can be produced at an estimated cost of Tk1.5 lakh. Photo: Junayet Rashel
Features

Buet’s smart fix for Dhaka's autorickshaws

The result was a safer battery-run autorickshaw, made entirely in Bangladesh

Constable Kamal Das hanging from the side of a running autorickshaw in Gazipur on 19 February. Photo: Screengrab from video
Crime

Autorickshaw driver drags policeman for 1km after asking to stop

Battery-run rickshaws should be allowed to ply only on branch roads under a regulated policy. Photo: Syed Zakir Hossain
Panorama

Banning battery-run rickshaws doesn’t work. What can?

Protesting battery-run rickshaw pullers vandalises two buses in Mirpur 10. Photos: TBS
Crime

42 arrested for vandalising vehicles, setting fire to police boxes in Dhaka's Mirpur

A driver of a batter-run auto rickshaw plying city streets. File photo: Saqlain Rizvi
Thoughts

Tales of 'Bangla Tesla' drivers and the hopelessness borne from the temporary ban

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi. File photo: Collected
Politics

Ruling party members extorting toll from auto-rickshaw pullers: Rizvi

The batteries used by these e-rickshaws are not certified by BSTI yet there are more than three million e-rickshaws in Bangladesh currently. Photo: Saqlain Rizve
Bangladesh

PM allows battery-run auto rickshaws on Dhaka city roads

File Photo: MumitM/TBS
Transport

Licence for battery-run autos demanded to ply on roads except highways

Rashed Kabir. Photo: TBS
Crime

Man arrested 6 months after killing 2 autorickshaw drivers in Faridpur