A bearing pad from an elevated Dhaka metro rail pillar suddenly dislodged and plummeted onto a busy Farmgate sidewalk around 12 noon Sunday. The 140–150kg rubber-and-steel pad struck a 35-year-old ...

A tragic accident on Sunday claimed the life of Abul Kalam Azad, a young man who was struck by a falling bearing pad, an essential component designed to absorb vibration in metro rail operations, near ...

A fatal accident involving a falling part from Dhaka Metro Rail has triggered fresh questions about the safety of Bangladesh’s flagship transport project, just two years after it opened to great ...

After the fatal metro rail accident, questions are mounting over how a bearing pad -- which supports viaducts weighing hundreds of tonnes -- could fall off again, just 13 months after a similar ...

A high-powered probe committee has found defects in the metro rail's bearing pads and design flaws at the point where a pad fell in Dhaka's Farmgate in October last year, killing one person and ...