Modified buses, trucks cause more accidents
Modifications of buses and trucks across the country remain a big concern for road safety as such modifications have been resulting in increased accidents and greater damages to roads and highways.
Tags : CID
Road accidents kill 612 in March: report
At least 612 people were killed and 1,246 more injured in 593 road crashes in the country in March, said a Passenger Welfare Association of Bangladesh report published on Thursday.
Call for trial completion, redress renewed
Different political parties and labour rights organisations specially the garment worker rights bodies on Thursday observed the 12th year of the Rana Plaza collapse, the deadliest industrial accident in the country, with the demand for completing the trial of the owners of the factory responsible for the accident...
Safety condition improves, challenges remain
Bangladesh鈥檚 readymade garment industry has undergone a significant change in the aftermath of the Rana Plaza collapse, one of the deadliest industrial accidents in the country, but there are still in the sector many issues to be addressed...
Army to extend hand in anti-mosquito campaign of DNCC
Bangladesh army is set to extend its hands to Dhaka North City Corporation鈥檚 anti-mosquito campaign agreeing to oversee the use of insecticide to control the vermin to prevent outbreak of dengue during the rainy season, municipal officials said on Sunday.
BRTA suspends registration of bus over loss of roof in accident
The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority has suspended the registration of the rashly-driven bus that lost its roof amid the driver鈥檚 desperate bid to escape after an accident...
Indecision about three-wheelers makes roads more chaotic
THE government鈥檚 stance on banning three-wheelers, considered technically flawed and, therefore, more prone to accidents, from national and regional highways appears confusing. There have so far been a number of government and court orders that have banned CNG-run auto-rickshaws, battery-run rickshaws and vans, 鈥榚asy bikes鈥� and improvised motorised and...
Police constable's body found hanging in Chuadanga
A police constable reportedly died by suicide at Joynagar International Checkpost in Darshana upazila of Chuadanga district early Friday.
Four die in road accident in Habiganj
Four people, including two women, were killed and five others were also injured in a collision between a truck and a pickup van on Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj early Friday.
Govt needs to ensure footpath use to stop pedestrian death
A REPORT that Dhaka鈥檚 north city authorities and the city police have prepared says that about 61 per cent of all fatal victims of road accidents that took place in the areas under the north city authority jurisdiction in 2023 were pedestrians. The report was made public at a meeting on road safety that the Road Transport and Highways Division and the Bloomberg...
Elderly man killed in road accident
A 77-year-old man was killed and two others were injured in a road accident in front of Khajur Union Parishad Office under Mahadebpur in Naogaon on Wednesday...
61pc fatal DNCC road accident victims in 2023 pedestrians: report
About 61 per cent of all fatal victims in road crashes occurred in the Dhaka North City Corporation areas in 2023 were pedestrians, said a report published on Wednesday...
Two people killed in Faridpur road accident
Two people died after a watermelon-laden truck lost control and hit a tree on the Dhaka-Khulna highway in Ghopghat area of Bagat Union in Madhukhali upazila of Faridpur on Tuesday morning...
Much for world, Bangladesh to do to stop Gaza genocide
THE wave of protests taking place as elsewhere around the world as in Bangladesh in solidarity with Palestine, demanding an end to Israel鈥檚 genocide in Gaza and condemning US complicity in an expanding offensive in the Palestinian city, that too, in violation of a ceasefire is something that Israel and the United States should heed for them to act and the world community for it...
Road accidents kill 604 in March: report
At least 604 people were killed and 1,231 more injured in 587 road crashes in the country in March, said a Road Safety Foundation report published on Saturday.
Six killed in road accidents
At least six people were killed and five more were injured in road crashes in Brahmanbaria, Feni, Kushtia and Bhola districts on Saturday.
Five killed in road accidents
At least five people were killed and 10 others injured in road accidents in Bogura, Feni and Habiganj districts between Thursday night and Friday.聽聽聽
Road accidents kill 4
Four people were killed in road accidents in Sylhet, Brahmanbaria, Sherpur and Patuakhali on Thursday.
Fewer Eid-time accidents are still too many
AT LEAST 322 people died and 826 became wounded in 315 road accidents during Eid-ul-Fitr holidays, keeping to Passenger Welfare Association of Bangladesh figures. While the report notes some progress in view the corresponding 2024 occasion, as accidents reduced by 21.05 per cent, fatalities by 20.88 per cent and injuries by 40.91 per cent, the overall figures remain...
This hell
WESTERN governments actively assisting genocide in Gaza; attacks on benefits for the disabled; a deliberate official narrative of Russophobia; rampant Islamophobia boosting the rise of extreme right-wing parties and fueled by government anti-immigrant rhetoric; an incredible accumulation of wealth by the ultra-rich; rampant erosion of freedoms of speech and...
322 killed in Eid time road accidents: report
At least 322 people were killed and 826 others injured in 315 road crashes in 15 days during the last Eid-ul-Fitr holidays, said a report of the Passenger Welfare Association of Bangladesh on Wednesday...
Kabita Parishad demands end to Gaza genocide
Jatiya Kabita Parishad on Tuesday organised a protest rally and a poetry reading session demanding an end to the ongoing genocide in Gaza...
Police response to Gaza strike vandalism appears delayed
TENS of thousands of students, professionals and ordinary people marched down the roads across Bangladesh on April 7 in response to a global call for a strike demanding an end to Israeli genocide in Gaza and, also, condemning US complicity amidst an expanding offensive in the Palestinian city. Educational institutions, chiefly universities, have heeded the global call by...
7 killed as bus plunges into ditch
Seven people, including three women and a child, were killed and 31 others injured when a running bus veered off the road to plunge into a ditch in Faridpur on Tuesday...
23 killed daily in road accidents during Eid: report
Nearly 23 people were killed daily on average in road accidents between March 26 and April 5 during Eid-ul-Fitr, one of the biggest religious festivals of Muslims, according to a Road Safety Foundation report published on Monday...
Three Jamaat members killed in Rajshahi road accident
At least three activists of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami were killed and 35 others were injured when two buses carrying them collided head-on with a truck on Rajshahi-Dhaka highway near Varendra University in Rajshahi on Monday...
Teenage girl found dead in Sylhet
A teenage girl allegedly committed suicide after being resisted from using mobile phone by her mother in Sylhet on Sunday...
Safe Eid journey still remains a far cry
THOUSANDS travel to outlying areas from the capital to celebrate Eid with friends and family and the journey almost always remains risky. This was no different this Eid. Road accidents left at least 41 dead and numerous others wounded across the country during Eid holidays. In an accident at the Chunti Jangalia point on the Chattogram鈥揅ox鈥檚 Bazar Highway on April 2, a...
Two killed as car, motorcycle collide on Kalshi flyover
Two friends riding a motorcycle were killed in a head-on collision with a private car on the Kalshi Flyover at Mirpur in the capital on Friday night.
Four killed in road accidents聽
At least four people, including two minors, were killed in road accidents across Bangladesh on Friday.