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2-day BRI in Bangladesh expo begins

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.

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Strategic rise of China’s defence exports

THE Chinese government launched its global infrastructure project, the Belt and Road Initiative’  on September 7, 2013. The project is also known as One Belt, One Road. The ‘belt’ refers to the Silk Road economic belt, a network of overland road and railway routes connecting nations. The ‘road’ refers to the 21st century Maritime Silk Road, a series of shipping lanes and...

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Five killed in bus crash in Laxmipur

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.

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Impunity, inaction fuel land grab, violence against officials

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–Mymensingh Highway at Sripur in Gazipur. Officials of...

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Two people killed in Panchagarh road accident

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...

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Road safety campaigns utterly fail

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.

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Road collapse paralyses 12 villages in Cumilla

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...

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EC likely to announce election roadmap today

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’s senior secretary Akhtar Ahmed...

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Engineering students block Shahbagh again for 2nd consecutive day

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...

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1,500km highways, roads under RHD need repair

Around 1,500 kilometres of highways and roads under the Roads and Highways Department require repair at present, said the department’s chief engineer Syed Moinul Hasan on Monday...

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Three people killed in Khulna road accident

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...

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Pubali Bank opens Islamic sub-branch

Pubali Bank PLC has recently opened its Green Road Islamic banking sub-branch at Panthapath in the capital, said a press release...

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Effective enforcement is all for road safety, not law after law

THE government’s going ahead with a new law on road safety whilst the Road Transport Act 2018 is in force has created the scope for doubt, especially regarding its enforcement. The Road Transport Act 2018, made on September 19 that year, after a countrywide road safety movement in July 2018 was set into force on November 1, 2019. But the road transport minister...

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Yet another road safety law under way

The government is going ahead with the initiative of January 2024 to enact a law to ensure road safety amid frequent fatal road accidents...

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10 killed in road accidents

At least 10 people, including five in Chattogram, were killed and four more were injured in five road accidents in five districts on Monday...

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2nd BRI exhibition Sept 12–13

The 2nd Edition of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Bangladesh Exhibition 2025 will be held on September 12–13, 2025, at the International Convention City Bashundhara (ICCB), Dhaka...