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鈥檚 chief engineer Syed Moinul Hasan on Monday...
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StudyNet hosts Australian higher education roadshow
The Australian Higher Education Roadshow 2025 was successfully held at the Sheraton Hotel in Dhaka on Monday...
Overlooked threat of unattended bridges, culverts
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...
Bangladesh鈥檚 energy crossroads
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...
Villagers block roads over recurring elephant attacks
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...
Polytechnic students boycott exams, block roads
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...
Lack of civic facilities in new DNCC wards decried
Residents of 18 newly included wards in the Dhaka North City Corporation at a public hearing on Tuesday complained of grappling with water stagnation, poor waste disposal, and dilapidated roads, among other issues...
Dilapidated roads to be repaired by Ramadan 15: adviser
Maintenance and repairing of all dilapidated roads across the country will be completed by Ramadan 15 to facilitate around 1.5 crore people to leave Dhaka ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr, said the adviser to the ministry of road transport and...
Ultimatum issued to free Sylhet roads from encroachment
Citizens of Sylhet on Wednesday gave a 24-hour ultimatum to the city corporation authorities to free the city streets from the illegal encroachment by hawkers...
People suffer as students block roads in city
People suffered immensely on Thursday as the students of Government Titumir College and Dania University College block roads in Mohakhali and Jatrabari areas pressing for their separate demands...
Farmers at a crossroads
AS AN agrarian nation, Bangladesh鈥檚 economy is deeply intertwined with the agricultural sector. Agriculture remains the primary source of income for many, with a significant portion of the population depending on it. According to Bangladesh鈥檚 2018 Economic Survey, agriculture employs 40.6 per cent of the workforce and contributes 14.10 per cent to...
Students of DU affiliated colleges block roads in Dhaka demanding univ status
Several hundred students of seven colleges affiliated to Dhaka University on Monday blocked Nilkhet and Science Laboratory crossings for about four hours placing a three-point demand...
Insufferable city roads cause sufferings
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...
Unfit, unauthorised vehicles create chaos in city
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.
Tarique Rahman鈥檚 make-or-break moment
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...
Public suffering on city roads during monsoon must stop
IT IS early monsoon and city roads in many places are already largely submerged and unfit for vehicle movement. A photograph that 抖阴精品 published on June 29 shows a rickshaw and a modified utility vehicle painstakingly cutting through water on a rickety road connecting Jurain and Gandaria in Dhaka...
Commuters suffer as rain inundates roads in Dhaka
Heavy downpours caused water stagnation in different areas of the capital on Wednesday morning, causing immense suffering to commuters...
Maoists kill two security force members
Indian Maoist insurgents killed two members of the security forces by blowing up a ration truck with a roadside bomb, police said Monday, the latest clash in a decades-long conflict...
U-loops built on riverbeds, canals disrupt water flows
The Roads and Highways Department has earth-filled at least 20 rivers and canals crossing different highways across the country to construct U-loops.
Badly in need of timely, quality road repairs
PUBLIC sufferings during Eid holidays have always been a concern. It appears that the sufferings will be even graver this Eid-ul-Adha as about 83 kilometres of highway and road stretches have been damaged in areas that were hit by Cyclone Remal...
A welcome decision that needs to be properly implemented
The decision not to allow battery-run vehicles on roads in the capital city is welcome. The road transport and bridges minister at the first meeting of the Road Transport Authority advisory council committee on May 15 instructed authorities not to allow battery-run vehicles...