The rail communication of Dhaka with the southern and northern parts of the country has been restored from around 10pm after a halt of six hours.

Amid the ongoing student protests for safe roads, the teen demonstrators came across someone similar to their age driving a microbus, while the actual driver was dead asleep.

A teenage boy was driving a microbus, trying to go through the Rampura Bridge area, this afternoon. Driver of the vehicle was found sleeping in the back.

Students from various schools and colleges blocked Rampura Bridge again today in protest of the recent death of an SSC examinee. They demanded justice for the incident and effective steps to ensure safer roads.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-7) yesterday detained three transport workers over pushing a primary-school teacher off a moving bus and running the vehicle over him, leaving him critically injured, in port city’s Station Road area last Saturday.

The student movement for safe roads, which escalated after the death of SSC candidate Mainuddin Islam on Monday night, caused gridlocks and long tailbacks in some major parts of the capital yesterday.

Public transport owners today agreed to take half fare from students in Dhaka from tomorrow.

Students will stage a sit in on the BRTA office premises in the capital’s Banani today to press home their nine-point demand.

The 10-kilometre-long Lalmonirhat-Mogholhat railway route in the bordering area of Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila has been lying

Students demonstrating for safer roads and half bus fare for them said they would continue with their demonstrations until their demands are met.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said that Saudi government has expressed their interest to finance a project on upgrading the Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar and Jashore-Khulna highways into four lanes.

Opposition MPs yesterday blasted Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader for his failure to bring discipline on roads and for reducing the punishment for errant drivers by amending the Road Safety Bill.

Transport workers demonstrated across different spots on Chattogram-Hathazari route yesterday, protesting the killing of a driver who was allegedly beaten to death.

The Highways Bill, 2021 was passed in parliament yesterday to enact a comprehensive law, replacing a century-old one.

Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) Chairman Nur Mohammad Mazumder today said they need to hold more discussions on various issues, including compensation for transport owners, if half fare on public buses is set. 

In the face of student demonstrations, the government yesterday decided to reduce fares by half for students travelling on state-owned BRTC buses.

A meeting on the half-bus fare issue raised by students ended inconclusively yesterday, after private transport owners sought incentives from the government for meeting the demands.

Almost 60 percent garbage collecting vehicles of Dhaka South City Corporation are driven by contractual or proxy drivers, said a DSCC source.

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said that a rational decision will be taken by Saturday over the issue of the half bus fare for students.

Thousands have been suffering immensely since October 20 when flash floods washed away a 610-meter-long section of flood bypass in Doani area of Lalmonirhat.