The Roads and Highways Department coming to suspend its eviction drive to reclaim grabbed land after one of its surveyors was attacked by illegal occupiers speaks of the sorry state of reclamation efforts. The surveyor came under attack on September 2 during a drive to demolish illegal structures beside the Dhaka鈥揗ymensingh Highway at Sripur in Gazipur. Officials of...
Locals on Wednesday morning staged demonstrations and blocked several points of the busy Cumilla-Sylhet Highway, demanding its immediate repairs and long-awaited plan to upgrade the route into a four-lane one...
Around 1,500 kilometres of highways and roads under the Roads and Highways Department require repair at present, said the department鈥檚 chief engineer Syed Moinul Hasan on Monday...
Feni students on Thursday blocked Dhaka-Chattogram highway to press home their six-point demand, including permanent campus and shuttle bus services...
Vehicular movement on Dhaka-Barishal highway was suspended on Saturday as students blocked the highway for the third consecutive day on Saturday to press home their three-point demand.
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鈥檚 Sreepur upazila Sunday morning...
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...
Twelve people, including 11 motorcyclists, were killed in 10 road accidents on the Dhaka-Mawa-Bhanga Expressway and Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in the past six months...
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...
A rented microbus carrying a female expatriate and her family was robbed on the Dhaka-Tangail-Jamuna Bridge highway in Tangail early Saturday...
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...
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...
THE Roads and Highways Department鈥檚 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鈥檚 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...
EXPORT earnings from tea gardens in the country have been progressively on the rise amid allegations of gross violations of tea workers鈥� 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...
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.
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...
Two assistant sub-inspectors of Savar model police station were closed for negligence of duty.
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...
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...
Night-time robberies on the inter-district and city buses at different points on the Dhaka-Aricha highway are going unchecked, causing panic among passengers...
Workers from two different factories in Gazipur on Tuesday staged demonstrations demanding their wage arrears and the extension of Eid-ul-Fitr holidays...
The police have arrested four individuals today, in connection with two consecutive robbery-incidents on Dhaka-Chattogram highway at Chauddagram upazila in the district...
Workers of a spinning mill blocked the Chandra-Nabinagar highway in Kaliakair upazila of Gazipur for three hours Monday afternoon, demanding their three months鈥� unpaid wages...
Battery-run auto-rickshaw drivers blocked the Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway for four hours on Tuesday in the Natun Bazar area of Gazipur protesting at the alleged murder of their fellow driver by minibus staff...
The National Board of Revenue has decided to make mandatory installing Electronic Fiscal Device (EFD) or Sales Data Controller (SDC) machines at all VAT-eligible hotels and restaurants located on highways across the country...
People suffered as the leaders and activists of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh blocked the Cumilla-Sylhet highway in Brahmanbaria for about three hours on Wednesday...
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...
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...
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.
