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Licensed to break law

Tue February 9, 2010 - 1:36am BdST

Car licence plates have become a symbol of utter disregard for law where plates are tampered with by using varying typefaces, and design their numbers violating the existing rules that strictly prohibit such practices. In the wake of increasing numbers of fatal street accidents and vehicle thefts, traffic police officers say altering the plates makes it difficult to make out the registration numbers. They are concerned that vehicles involved in crimes or hit-and-run cases can be difficult to trace.

Car of Ershad’s son dashes vehicles, injures 5

Wed December 23, 2009 - 12:25pm BdST

At least five were injured and a car and two rickshaws were damaged as they were hit by a car driven by Shad Ershad, son of Hussain Mohammad Ershad, at Banani in Dhaka on Tuesday. The Gulshan police said Shad’s car had hit the vehicles at least three times at different points — in front of the Iqbal Tower and on Banani Road 9 and 11 — in which the five were injured.

eBay And GM Team Up On Website, Will Sell Cars Online

Wed August 12, 2009 - 2:00pm BdST

San Jose, CA: eBay and General Motors announced Monday they have agreed on a joint promotion to sell cars online. The site, http://gm.ebay.com will launch Tuesday and run as a trial program for more than 200 GM dealers located in California.

American Ford enters Bangladesh market

Wed July 15, 2009 - 3:22am BdST

Vehicles of the fourth largest automaker of the world Ford were formally launched in the country on Monday night.

PSI on import of new cars withdrawn

Tue July 7, 2009 - 1:35am BdST

The government has withdrawn mandatory pre-shipment inspection (PSI) on import of new car aiming to encourage the importers to import directly from manufacturers without intervention of any middleman.

JS body pulls for cars, mobile sets

Thu June 25, 2009 - 1:07am BdST

A parliamentary body yesterday recommended that the government reduce the proposed import tax on different commodities including second-hand cars of up to 2,000cc, cellphone sets and raw materials for furniture.

All that is left is to drive a car

by pijush » Sat June 20, 2009 - 2:21pm comments (0)

I learnt when I was young, ‘Lekhpora korey je garighora chorey shey’. (Those who study get to ride cars). While growing up I came to learn that it is not only through studying that I can get to ride a car, studying is the blessing of debi Saraswati.

1818 imported vehicles cleared in 5 hours

Fri June 12, 2009 - 1:05am BdST

Officials of the import wing of Chittagong Customs House (CCH), biggest revenue earner for the national exchequer, reportedly became over efficient and finished formalities of clearing more than 1800 automobiles before Wednesday midnight.

Car buying craze

Mon June 8, 2009 - 10:05am BdST

Due to fear of extra tax imposed on Japanese reconditioned cars in next fiscal budget car buying craze has started. For last few days customers have been crowding in car showrooms of Dhaka and Chittagong.

Car sales hit all time high

Mon May 11, 2009 - 2:17am BdST

Car sales hit an all time high in the past year when importers released different types of vehicles worth Tk 2,070 crore.