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This screengrab shows a traffic cop inside a seized a battery-run autorickshaw, surrounded by a mob of autorickshaw drivers on 7 October 2025

Mob assaults traffic cop, takes back seized autorickshaw in Chattogram

Battery-run autorickshaws are banned on major Chattogram roads, but many continue to operate illegally, often leading to confrontations with law enforcement.

File Photo: TBS

'Winter clothes shopping, Wednesday rush' lead to heavy congestion in capital

Sohana Islam Roja and Sanjida Akhter Shanta were arrested from their residences in Kushtia town this evening (9 December). Photo: Collected

Two arrested for assaulting on-duty traffic policeman in Kushtia

DMP files 838 cases, fines Tk37.94 lakh for traffic violations

File photo of traffic jam in Dhaka/TBS

Dhaka commuters get no respite from traffic gridlocks

Photo: Noor-A-Alam

DMP imposes over Tk30 lakh in fines, files 734 cases in one day

Protestors gather at Shahbagh on 19 August 2024. Photo: Collected from Facebook

Dhaka jammed as demands pile up

As Dhaka chokes in traffic amid demos, public attention turns to 'inefficient' traffic cops

As Dhaka chokes in traffic amid demos, public attention turns to 'inefficient' traffic cops

A student, while managing traffic at the entrance of Dhaka University area on Friday, holds a placard that reads ‘ambulance lane’, indicating to passing vehicles that the lane is only for emergency use – a concept which has been absent in Bangladesh. Students have been managing traffic on the roads after the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s government on 5 August. However, the DMP withdrew traffic police from the capital on 3 August to ensure their safety during the recent violent protests. Photo: Rajib Dhar/TBS

A week after govt falls, Dhaka streets yet to see traffic police

Sheikh Azam, 40, former traffic inspector of Jhenaidah district, was also fined Tk5,000. Photo: TBS

Former traffic inspector gets life sentence in drug case

Abdul Hasan Chowdhury Apu being taken by the police after his arrest on Friday, 24 May 2024. Photo: TBS

Cumilla traffic inspector's 'younger brother' accused of extortion and assault

DMP provides water, saline to traffic police amid heatwave

The traffic police are constantly exposed to Dhaka’s polluted air, which is primarily made up of black smoke from vehicles and dust from road construction work. Photo: Mehedi Hasan

Dhaka's traffic police are on the front lines of air pollution. Are they okay?