MORE than 600,000 registered motor vehicles still running on the road with their fitness certificates not having been updated after they have had repeated bans on their movement is a cause for concern. The Road Transport Authority figures until mid-March show that the number of motor vehicles registered with the agency is 6.296 million whilst 9.7 per cent of them have...
At least 322 people were killed and 826 others injured in 315 road crashes in 15 days during the last Eid-ul-Fitr holidays, said a report of the Passenger Welfare Association of Bangladesh on Wednesday...
Seven people, including three women and a child, were killed and 31 others injured when a running bus veered off the road to plunge into a ditch in Faridpur on Tuesday...
A 65-year-old man died and 17 others suffered injuries in a fire that broke out on the ground floor of a five-storey building in Dhaka鈥檚 Nazimuddin Road early Monday...
Nearly 23 people were killed daily on average in road accidents between March 26 and April 5 during Eid-ul-Fitr, one of the biggest religious festivals of Muslims, according to a Road Safety Foundation report published on Monday...
Sheikh Moinuddin on Sunday joined as special assistant to interim government鈥檚 chief adviser with the status of state minister and executive authority over the ministry of road transport and bridges...
At least 132 people were killed and 208 injured in 110 road crashes across the country during the Eid-ul-Fitr vacation, according to data published by the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority...
At least six people, including two Secondary School Certificate examinees, were killed in road crashes in four districts on Saturday...
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...
Two friends riding a motorcycle were killed in a head-on collision with a private car on the Kalshi Flyover at Mirpur in the capital on Friday night.
At least four people, including two minors, were killed in road accidents across Bangladesh on Friday.
At least six people, including a father and his two minor daughters, were killed and 22 others were injured in road accidents across the country on Thursday...
The government will take all necessary steps to ensure medical treatment for those injured in a recent road accident at Lohagara upazila in Chattogram, said Faruk E Azam, the adviser to the liberation war affairs and disaster management ministries...
A man and his nephew were killed when a car hit a motorbike on Jashore-Benapole highway in Sarsha upazila of Benapole on Wednesday night...
At least 42 people were killed and 63 others were injured in road accidents across Bangladesh during the Eid vacation in four days between Sunday and Wednesday...
A man and his nephew were killed and another one was injured when a private car hit a motorbike on Kushtia-Jhenaidah road in Kushita district town early Wednesday...
At least 10 people were killed and two others injured as a bus collided head-on with two microbuses on Chattogram-Cox's Bazar highway at Chunty point under Lohagara upazila in Chattogram Wednesday morning...
Three people were killed and at least 25 others were injured as a bus crashed into an electric pole and a tree in Chandina upazila of Cumilla on Dhaka-Chattogram highway on Tuesday evening...
A 95-year-old woman, her daughter, and two granddaughters were killed as a bus collided with their auto-rickshaw in Gouripur upazila Sunday morning....
Several hundred villagers in Karnaphuli upazila of Chattogram blocked roads, protesting the authorities鈥� 鈥榝ailure鈥� to curb recurring elephant attacks, on Thursday...
Bangladesh Road Transport Authority and Dhaka Metropolitan Police jointly conducted a drive against unfit vehicles in the city on Friday.
Two people were killed and 21 others injured as a truck hit a pedestrian and then crashed into a human hauler, locally known as Bhotbhoti, on Sherpur-Dhunat regional road in Bogura鈥檚 Sherpur upazila on Friday morning, said police...
Students of different polytechnic institutes in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country on Thursday boycotted examinations and blocked roads and railway tracks demanding abolition of the 30 per cent promotion quota for craft instructors in junior instructor positions...
At least seven people were killed and 13 others injured in road accidents in Jashore, Jaipurhat and Thakurgaon between Tuesday night and Wednesday...
Three people were killed and two others were injured in a collision between an ambulance and an engine-run van on Jashore-Benapole highway in Jashore on early Wednesday...
At least three people were killed and three others were injured in separate road accidents in Bogura and Cox鈥檚 Bazar on Monday.
The interim government has launched a road map for recovering stolen assets linked to 11 priority cases involving ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former land minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury and nine business groups.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police has urged all concerned to refrain from blocking roads and highways, stressing the importance of minimising public inconvenience during this busy time.
At least five people were killed and eight injured in road accidents in Gazipur, Munshiganj and Tangail on Saturday...
Four people were killed and several others injured in road accidents in Sylhet, Feni, Pabna and Jamalpur on Friday.