The interim government appointed journalist Mushfiqul Fazal Ansarey on Monday as an ambassador of Bangladesh mission abroad with the rank of senior secretary for three years.
The country is set to observe National Road Safety Day tomorrow with its biggest ever road safety project likely to undergo significant cuts both in its cost and scope.聽
Only 566 road crash victims and their families in Bangladesh got the compensations after the introduction of the scheme about two years ago, shows government data.
Two people were killed and several others injured in a collision between a bus and a truck at Rezu Mor in Baraigram, Natore...
The month of September saw 493 road accidents in Bangladesh, leaving 498 people dead and 978 injured, according to a report by Jatri Kalyan Samity.
At least 9 people, including two women and a child, were killed and 23 others injured in separate road accidents in Chattogram and Faridpur districts on Tuesday.
Prolonged sufferings of the Dhaka city residents become increasingly unbearable as the roads, streets and alleyways across the capital lie unrepaired and potholed, while in many other areas road excavation for development works goes on endlessly, flouting rules...
ENFORCEMENT failure lurks as the authorities meant to keep road regime disciplined have failed to keep unfit and unauthorised vehicles off the road. Unfit vehicles such as buses, trucks, pickups and privately owned cars continue to create chaos on the road in a few ways. Whilst unfit vehicles keep emitting black smoke, adding to the air pollution which often...
The lack of enforcement by the authorities, especially by the traffic police, to keep unfit and unauthorised vehicles off the roads continues to create chaos on the city roads.
EXTORTION in the road transport regime appears to have been back to square again in full swing although the amount of money that changed hands during the authoritarian rule of the Awami League, which was toppled on August 5, in the process has come to almost a half in most cases. Yet, this is extortion, which is a crime, and it adds to the bus fare, finally burdening passengers. This also shows the failure of the interim...
At least eight people, including four children and two women, were killed as a car fell into a canal near Kadamtala Bazar at Pirojpur Sadar on Thursday.
At least 426 people died and 813 others were injured in 392 road accidents across the country in September, according to a report by the Road Safety Foundation.
The environment, forest and climate change ministry on Sunday sent a letter to the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority requesting removal of buses, minibuses, trucks and covered vans exceeded their economic life from roads in an effort to reduce air pollution...
In an effort to reduce air pollution, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has sent a letter to the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority requesting it to remove buses and minibuses older than 20 years, and trucks and covered vans older than 25 years from roads.
Major political parties, Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Bangladesh Jam aat-e-Islami and Ganatantra Mancha among them, on Saturday suggested that the interim government should give specific roadmaps for...
At least eight people, including a UP member, were killed and 11 others injured in separate road accidents in Tangail, Jamalpur and Gaibandha on Friday.
Vehicular movement on Nabinagar-Chandra highway remained suspended since Wednesday morning as workers of a garment factory staged demonstration by blocking roads for arrears in Ashulia of Savar...
As part of ongoing changes in Bangladesh missions abroad, the government has asked its envoys stationed in New Delhi, Brussels, Canberra, Lisbon and Bangladesh Permanent Mission to the UN in New York to return to Dhaka immediately.
Director general of the department of printing and publications Md Yeasin has been made the new chairman of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority...
Two people were killed and two others injured when a covered van ploughed through several rickshaw vans in the Raniganj Bazar area of Ghoraghat upazila in Dinajpur on Monday morning...
AS BANGLADESH navigates through one of the most transformative political transitions in its history, Tarique Rahman, the acting chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, finds himself at the centre of this unfolding drama. The fall of Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 16-year autocratic regime, led by a student-mass uprising, has created a political vacuum and the...
Two people were killed in road accidents in Birampur and Parbatipur upazilas in Dinajpur district on Sunday...
Four children tragically lost their lives after being hit by a speeding microbus in Khoksha upazila of Kushtia on Sunday morning, police said...
The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission will hold views exchange meetings with stakeholders to prepare a roadmap for reformation and development of the capital market...
At least three people were killed and another one injured in road accidents in Munshiganj and Chattogram between Thursday night and Friday.
At least four people, including three women apparel workers, were killed and 23 others were injured in two road crashes in Manikganj and Sirajganj on Thursday.
At least seven people, including a woman, were killed and 11 others injured in separate road accidents in Jhenaidah, Panchagarh, Chattogram and Magura between Monday night and Tuesday.
Two people died and another one was injured after a mini truck hit the back of a stationary truck on Tuesday...
Information and broadcasting adviser Md Nahid Islam on Monday said that the interim government was hopeful about declaring the formation of the mass media reform commission by the next week...
A rickshaw-van puller was killed and a passenger of the three-wheeler was injured after being hit by a truck on the Ranihat-Durgapur regional road in Domargram Bol Dhar area under Kahalu upazila of Bogura on Saturday...