THE Belt and Road Initiative, BRI, stands as one of China鈥檚 most ambitious global projects, designed to enhance international trade and investment through improved infrastructure and connectivity. Strategically situated at the intersection of South and Southeast Asia, Bangladesh is poised to play a significant role in the BRI...
The workers of 18 tea gardens under National Tea Company Ltd in Sylhet have threatened to go on strike from Wednesday if their due wages are not cleared by Tuesday.
Pedestrians, particularly students and workers, face significant risks when they cross busy roads. With industrial, commercial, and educational activities concentrated in urban areas, many must cross high-speed roads daily. This issue is part of a broader global challenge, as 93 per cent of road traffic fatalities occur in low- and middle-income countries...
At least six people, including two women, were killed in a head-on collision between a cement-laden truck and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Shibpur in Narsingdi on Saturday.
At least three people were killed and 15 others injured in road accidents in Munshiganj, Dinajpur and Jhenaidah on Friday.聽聽聽
An unidentified youth died and around15 others were injured when a bus overturned in Phulbari upazila of Dinajpur early Friday.
The adviser to the interim government for road transport and bridges ministry, Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan, on Tuesday said that the authorities concerned were now considering...
The government is going to observe the National Road Safety Day today amid frequent fatal road crashes across the country.
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...
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...