An inter-ministerial meeting ended today without fixing any date for resuming the operation of passenger trains between Bangladesh and India, which was expected to be started within this month.

Unplanned extraction of sand from Dudhkumar river in Kurigram’s Bhurungamari upazila posing serious threat to century-old Sonahat Bridge on the river.

It may sound unusual that a project implementation agency will pay contractors the “retention money” while the project is running, as this is supposed to be paid after the completion of the works.

Bangladesh Railway (BR) is on course to procure 200 broad gauge (BG) passenger carriages to meet the ongoing crisis of rail engines and expand its services by adding new trains to its fleet.

For  the second straight day, the capital appeared to have witnessed its  pre-pandemic form as seemingly interminable traffic jams grounded  movement to a crawl yesterday, causing immense public suffering.

Mitali Express, the third passenger train to be operated between Dhaka and West Bengal’s New Jalpaiguri (NJP) in India, is likely to start running within this month to boost connectivity between the two neighbours.

Bangladesh Railway (BR) is likely to introduce broad-gauge railway locomotives -- recently imported from the US -- to manage the rush of homebound passengers this Eid-ul-Fitr.

India has proposed to resume operations of passengers trains between the country and Bangladesh from March 26.

The temporary gatekeepers of Bangladesh Railway, who have been observing “fast unto death” since February 27, for making their job permanent, have postponed their demonstration for three months yesterday evening.

Ishtiaq Hossain, employee of a private firm, left his home in Khilgaon at 9:00am to go to his office in Farmgate. The commute usually takes around 45 minutes. But yesterday it took nearly two and a half hours.

Asian Development Bank (ADB) has asked the government to speed up preparatory works for five upcoming road projects, which are aiming to boost sub-regional connectivity.

Bangladesh Railway’s online ticketing will remain suspended for five days from the early hours of March 21 to facilitate smooth handover of the ticketing job to a new vendor.

The crisis over a Bangladesh Railway (BR) project to procure 70 metre-gauge (MG) locomotives is refusing to go away.

Online ticketing of Bangladesh Railway will remain suspended for five days – from early hours of March 21 – to facilitate smooth handover from the current vendor to the new one.

Asian Development Bank (ADB) has already topped the lenders’ list of Bangladesh Railway (BR). But with several new projects coming up, the state-run transport agency has sought more loan from the bank.

At a time when loans provided by Asian Development Bank (ADB) are ever increasing in the transport sector, implementing agencies have failed to get rid of some of the chronic problems liable for delays in implementation and cost overruns.

The U-loops on Dhaka’s Airport Road might be a perfect example of how public money is spent on arbitrary projects.

Hundreds of people of eight to ten villages have been suffering immensely due to low approach road of a bridge over a canal at Gotampur village in Rajbari’s Pangsha upazila.

Just a week after construction of the three-kilometre portion of an important road in Kishoreganj upazila the carpeting wore away, raising question about the quality of the work.

Jumping on running buses, groping, verbal abuse, men taking up their seats. For the women of Dhaka city, commuting by bus has always been an ordeal, as they often have to endure all these just to get to their destination.