At least six people, including a female student of Khulna University, were killed and scores injured in five road accidents in four districts, namely Bandarban, Habiganj, Noakhali and Gopalganj districts on Wednesday, according to 抖阴精品 correspondents and news agencies...
The Maldivian parliament has passed legislation to regulate journalists and media institutions despite widespread concerns that it would curb press freedom in the atoll nation...
AN INCREASING number of illegally modified covered vans plying the road is another example of a regulatory failure in the transport sector. A Passenger Welfare Association of Bangladesh report shows that 23.33 per cent of the road accidents in 2024 involved covered vans, trucks and pickups. The modified bodies of the vehicles, usually illegal extensions in length and width...
Covered vans which mostly are modified beyond allowed limits have posed a serious risk to road safety as such goods-carrying vehicles are often involved in fatal road accidents across Bangladesh, said experts, campaigners and transport worker leaders.
At least 428 people were killed and 791 others were injured in 451 road crashes across Bangladesh in August, according to a report published by the Road Safety Foundation issued on Monday.
Police filed a case naming 90 people and 150 unnamed others in connection with protests and blockades in Bhanga upazila of Faridpur over parliamentary seat re-demarcation...
Three people, including a police officer, were killed in a road accident on Jashore-Bagharpara highway in Bhangura Bazar area of Bagharpara Upazila on Sunday night...
PUBLIC transports remains fatally unsafe for passengers as the interim government has so far kept the sector off its reform agenda. The Passengers Welfare Association of Bangladesh on September 13 reported that at least 86,690 people died and 153,257 became wounded in 62,619 road accidents in 11 years. The number of fatalities, however shocking, is not surprising as...
Amid tight security measures, information and broadcasting adviser Mahfuj Alam attended two programmes in London on Friday smoothly, despite protests by a small group of Bangladeshis against his presence.
A bridge built over the Jamuna canal at a cost of about Tk 6 crore in Belkuchi upazila of Sirajganj has remained unused for four years, as no approach roads were ever constructed...
At least 86,690 people were killed and 1,53,257 more injured in 62,619 road accidents in the country in the past 11 years, according to the Passenger Welfare Association of Bangladesh...
At least eight people were killed in road accidents in Sunamganj, Sylhet, Lakshmipur, Chattogram and Mymensingh districts from Friday night to Saturday.
At least four people, including a child, were killed and four others injured in three road accidents in Chattogram and Feni districts on Friday.
The second edition of the Belt and Road Initiative in Bangladesh Exhibition-2025 kicked off in the capital on Friday to comprehensively showcase achievements of the BRI cooperation between China and Bangladesh.
THE Chinese government launched its global infrastructure project, the Belt and Road Initiative鈥櫬� on September 7, 2013. The project is also known as One Belt, One Road. The 鈥榖elt鈥� refers to the Silk Road economic belt, a network of overland road and railway routes connecting nations. The 鈥榬oad鈥� refers to the 21st century Maritime Silk Road, a series of shipping lanes and...
Five people were killed and five others injured when a bus plunged into a canal on Laxmipur-Dhaka road in front of Chandraganj Kafil Uddin Degree College on Saturday, the police said.
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...
At least three people, including a student of Rajshahi University, were killed in road accidents in Manikganj and Rajshahi on Wednesday night and Thursday...
At least 502 people were killed and 1,232 others were injured in 497 road crashes across Bangladesh in August, according to a report published by the Passenger Welfare Association of Bangladesh issued on Wednesday...
Two people were killed when a microbus and a battery-run easy-bike plunged into a roadside ditch after a collision between them on Panchagarh-Tetulia highway in Sadar upazila of Panchagarh district on Friday night...
Bangladesh Road Transport Authority has given Tk 1.8 crore in compensation to the families of 24 individuals who lost their lives in road accidents in Chattogram.
The road safety campaigns implemented by the authorities concerned in the past six financial years until FY24 utterly failed amid a surge in fatal road accidents in the country.
Hundreds of residents in 12 villages of Debidwar, Cumilla have been left stranded after a vital road, renovated less than a year ago spending Tk 1 crore, collapsed on Monday...
The Election Commission has approved the final roadmap for the 13th National parliamentary elections and is set to publish it on Thursday, according to the commission鈥檚 senior secretary Akhtar Ahmed...
A schoolboy was killed and two others were injured in a high-speed motorcycle accident in Gangni upazila of Meherpur on Tuesday evening...
Students of engineering universities, including Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, again blocked Shahbagh crossing on Wednesday, pressing for reforms in the recruitment and promotion system of engineers in the public service...
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...
Three people, including a woman, were killed and five others were injured in a head-on collision between a three-wheeler and a pickup van on Khulna-Satkhira highway at Dumuria upazila in Khulna district on Monday morning...
Adviser for road transport and bridges ministry Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan on Sunday became irate at an opening ceremony when he noticed his name on the inauguration plaque...
