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...
At least nine people were killed and 30 others injured in six road accidents in four districts, Dinajpur, Habiganj, Rajshahi and Magura, on Monday...
A large group of supporters of Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Ishraque Hossain on Monday blocked the road in front of Nagar Bhaban, the headquarters of Dhaka South City Corporation, and a portion of the Gulistan crossing, demanding...
Three people were killed and five others were injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a microbus in Birganj upazila in Dinajpur on Monday morning...
Road accidents in Bangladesh were claiming the lives of young people at an alarming rate鈥攁n 鈥榰nacceptable reality鈥� that had to be urgently addressed, said Ahmed Jamsheed Mohamed, the World Health Organization representative to Bangladesh, on Sunday...
At least five people were killed and 32 others were injured in road accidents in Barishal, Dhaka and Gopalganj between Thursday night and Friday.
Information and broadcasting adviser Mahfuj Alam came under attack on Wednesday night while speaking at a Jagannath University students鈥� sit-in in front of the Kakrail Mosque police barricade near the chief adviser鈥檚 official residence Jamuna in Dhaka.
At least four people, including a garment worker, were killed and three others injured in road accidents in Gazipur, Rangpur, Jhenaidah and Madaripur on Wednesday...
At least five people, including a Secondary School Certificate examinee, were killed in road accidents in Rangpur, Dhaka and Satkhira on Tuesday...
At least five people were killed in road accidents in Chattogram, Gazipur and Bagerhat districts on Sunday...
The National Citizen Party (NCP), along with several other political parties and groups, Friday night announced a series of blockade programmes and rallies to be held on Saturday at all 鈥楯uly Points鈥� in Dhaka and across Bangladesh.
At least six people, including a child and two teenagers, were killed and several others critically injured in separate road accidents in Savar, Jhenaidah, Panchagarh and Chattogram on Friday.
At least 583 people were killed and 1,202 more injured in 567 road crashes in the country in April, said a Passenger Welfare Association of Bangladesh report published on Tuesday...
THE fire that broke out in the 15-storey Capital Siraj Centre Shopping Mall on Bayley Road in Dhaka on May 5 is disparaging, especially in the wake of a series of fires that have taken place in recent years. In the incident at hand, no casualties were reported perhaps because of the prompt response of firefighters. The fire broke out in the evening and nine fire engines could...
Readymade garment workers blocked the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway for about three hours protesting at the death of a female worker in a road accident in Gazipur on Tuesday...
Information and broadcasting adviser Mahfuj Alam on Monday said that there was no scope to fire a journalist from his job without service any notice...
A fire broke out at the basement of the 15-storey Capital Siraj Centre Shopping Mall on Bayley Road in Dhaka Monday evening.
Members of the Road Safety Movement, a joint platform of the activists of the road safety movement, on Sunday demanded a ban on production of battery-run auto-rickshaws, locally made three-wheelers, and their movement on main roads...
Workers of three tea gardens in Sylhet on Sunday blocked the Sylhet Airport road demanding their wage arrears and allowances...
At least five people were killed in road accidents in Dhaka, Bogura and Satkhira districts between Sunday night and Monday...
Three people were killed in two road accidents on the Dhaka-Aricha highway in Savar on early Monday and on Sunday night...
A Secondary School Certificate examinee was killed after a truck hit him in the Uttara area in the capital Dhaka on Sunday afternoon...
At least nine people were killed in road accidents in Rangamati, Munshiganj and Patuakhali districts on Saturday...
BANGLADESH鈥橲 energy sector stands at a critical inflection point, caught between the urgent need to meet growing demand and the imperative to transition towards sustainable solutions. The country has made impressive strides in electricity coverage, expanding access to over 96 per cent today. Yet this remarkable achievement rests on increasingly shaky...
Five people were killed and one was injured in a collision between a pickup and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Chattogram-Rangamati road in Rubber Bagan area under Kawkhali upazila in Rangamati on Saturday morning...
At least six people, including two Secondary School Certificate examinees and a mother with her child, were killed in separate road accidents in Pabna, Lakshmipur and Satkhira districts on Friday.
At least 612 people were killed and 1,246 more injured in 593 road crashes in the country in March, said a Passenger Welfare Association of Bangladesh report published on Thursday.
The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority has suspended the registration of the rashly-driven bus that lost its roof amid the driver鈥檚 desperate bid to escape after an accident...
Four people, including two women, were killed and five others were also injured in a collision between a truck and a pickup van on Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj early Friday.
A REPORT that Dhaka鈥檚 north city authorities and the city police have prepared says that about 61 per cent of all fatal victims of road accidents that took place in the areas under the north city authority jurisdiction in 2023 were pedestrians. The report was made public at a meeting on road safety that the Road Transport and Highways Division and the Bloomberg...