Expat鈥檚 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...
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...
Overlooked threat of unattended bridges, culverts
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...
Unpaid tea workers鈥� 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...
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.
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...
2 ASIs closed for negligence of duty
Two assistant sub-inspectors of Savar model police station were closed for negligence of duty.
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...
Holidaymakers鈥� 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...
DHAKA-ARICHA HIGHWAY: Passengers in panic as bus robbery continues
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 block highway in Gazipur for arrears
Workers from two different factories in Gazipur on Tuesday staged demonstrations demanding their wage arrears and the extension of Eid-ul-Fitr holidays...
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...
Spinning mill workers block Gazipur highway for arrears
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 rickshaw drivers block highway over fellow鈥檚 murder
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...
VAT machine made mandatory for highway restaurants in Bangladesh
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 suffer as Hefazat blocks Cumilla-Sylhet highway
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...
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...
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...
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.
Students block highway in Sirajganj聽
A group of students linked to the Students鈥� 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...
Farmers block highway demanding withdrawal of increased VAT
Northern farmers on Wednesday staged a protest by dumping tomatoes on the Rajshahi-Dhaka Highway in Natore, demanding withdrawal of the increased value added tax and duty imposed on tomato and mango pulp...
College student electrocuted on foot-over bridge
A college student electrocuted on a foot-over bridge on the Dhaka-Aricha highway in Savar Monday morning...
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...
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鈥揟angail 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...
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...
Workers block highway over factory closures in Gazipur
Workers blocked Dhaka-Tangail highway in Konabari area of Gazipur city on Monday, demanding the reopening of two closed factories.
Student movement leaders鈥� vehicle attacked by muggers
A microbus carrying eight leaders of the Student Movement Against Discrimination was allegedly attacked by muggers on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in Narayanganj鈥檚 Sonargaon upazila early Monday, police said...
Govt should find out quarters at play and take lawful action
A GATHERING of people, reported to have been falsely promised loans, converging from across the country at Shahbagh in Dhaka on November 25 prompted police intervention. The city police say that the organisers had promised the people, mostly low-income people from villages, help in getting more than Tk 100,000 in loans without interest and brought...
Farmers block highway in Bogura for potato seeds
Farmers on Thursday blocked the Dhaka-Rajshahi highway at Sherpur upazila in Bogura demanding potato seeds at a fair price...