Advance bus tickets sale begins

Dhaka bus operators have started selling advance tickets for the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr holidays. ‘There are adequate tickets, everybody will get ticket,’ Md Zaman, an employee of a transport company said. A salesman at Shaymali Paribahan's Kalyanpur ticket counter, Md Nadim, said there would be no crisis. When paying a visit to Gabtoli Bus Terminal this correspondent saw many people standing in the queue since Sunday night. Many of them returned without tickets due to long queue, he said. Tickets would be sold from 6am to 6pm until the day before Eid, bus operators informed. Sale of advance train tickets would start on July 20 and continue until July 24. This time a person will be allowed to buy a maximum of four tickets. Tickets for travelling between July 24 and 28 can be purchased in advance during the July 20-24 period. Return tickets would be available from July 27, according to bdnews24.com.