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Workers block Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway for arrears

Vehicular movement on the Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway remained suspended for three hours as the workers of a ceramics factory blocked the highway, demanding arrears and other benefits, in Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila Sunday morning...

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Man accused in 23 cases hacked to death

A 40-year-old man was hacked to death by a group of miscreants on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway at Gouripur bus stand under Daudkandi upazila in Cumilla Friday night...

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Seven people killed in one month

A four-kilometre stretch of the Rangpur-Dhaka Highway, passing through the Mithapukur upazila, has turned into a deadly zone, claiming at least seven lives in the past month alone...

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Expat’s microbus robbed

A rented microbus carrying a female expatriate and her family was robbed on the Dhaka-Tangail-Jamuna Bridge highway in Tangail early Saturday...

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Mithamain elevated highway facing axe

The interim government has started a procedure for scrapping the costly and controversial project of constructing an elevated highway connecting Mithamain and Karimganj upazilas in Kishoreganj...

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Another bus robbed on Dhaka-Tangail-Jamuna Bridge Highway

Another incident of bus robbery occurred on the Dhaka-Tangail-Jamuna Bridge highway as a group of robbers took control of a bus and looted valuables and cash money from the passengers between Tuesday night and early Wednesday...

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Overlooked threat of unattended bridges, culverts

THE Roads and Highways Department’s finding that at least 712 bridges and culverts across the country are in urgent need of repairs is alarming. The figure, drawn from inspections in six of the department’s 10 zones, paints a deplorable picture of the state of national infrastructure. An additional 1,319 structures are on the brink of degradation, pending maintenance, and at...

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Unpaid tea workers’ concerns demand urgent attention

EXPORT earnings from tea gardens in the country have been progressively on the rise amid allegations of gross violations of tea workers’ rights. About 2,600 tea garden workers of Burjan Tea Company blocked the Sylhet Airport Highway on May 4 for several hours, demanding their wage arrears and allowances. Protesting workers reported that their wages and food...

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No end to 3-wheeler menace

The menace of three-wheelers swarming the highways, in outright violation of repeated bans, is getting deadlier every day, causing more deaths and exposing more lives to danger amid almost a complete absence of monitoring.

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RMG workers block highway for salary, festival allowance

Readymade garment workers on Thursday blocked Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in the Jaina Bazar area under Sripur upazila in the district demanding their salaries for the month of March and festival allowances for Eid-ul-fitr celebrated across the country on March 31...

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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–Cox’s Bazar Highway on April 2, a...

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Holidaymakers’ safety, security should be ensured

ROBBERY on highways has recently panicked the passengers headed for outlying areas on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr. In a recent such incident, robbers in the guise of passengers boarded a Manikganj-bound bus at Savar on March 24 and robbed passengers at gun point before they got off near the C&B Stand. Students and passengers managed to stop the bus after it had...

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4 held over highway robbery

The police have arrested four individuals today, in connection with two consecutive robbery-incidents on Dhaka-Chattogram highway at Chauddagram upazila in the district...

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MDB opens relocated Noapara sub-branch in Jashore

Midland Bank PLC on Monday inaugurated its relocated Noapara sub-branch at 26 Buikara, Kalahata, Joshore-Khulna Highway, Noapara pourashava, Aboynagar thana in Jashore, said a press release...

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4 highways, 8 bridges renamed

The road transport and bridges ministry on Monday changed names of four highways and eight bridges across the country, including the name of the expressway on the Dhaka-Mawa-Bhanga route...

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Feni road crash kills five, injures 10

Five people were killed and 10 others injured in a collision between a pickup van and a covered van on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in Feni on Monday night.

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Students block highway in Sirajganj 

A group of students linked to the Students’ Against Discrimination blocked the Dhaka-Rajshahi-Rangpur highway, protesting at not being included in the newly formed Sirajganj district committee of the platform, in Sirajganj on Monday...

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Students block highway for end to mugging

Over a hundred students from different educational institutions on Saturday held a demonstration blocking the Dhaka- Mymensingh highway demanding an end to mugging at Tongi in Gazipur...

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Govt should make apparel factory owners behave in paying workers

WORKERS of an apparel factory on the Ashulia outskirt of the capital city, reported to have been abstaining from work for several days, had blocked the Dhaka–Tangail Highway on January 13 for five hours, which majorly disrupted traffic. The workers are reported to be pushing for the demand for job termination benefits. The law enforcement agencies used...

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RMG workers block highway for benefit

Several hundred workers of a readymade garment factory at Ashulia, on the outskirts of the capital, on Monday blocked the Dhaka-Tangail Highway for five hours demanding their termination benefit...