The Mass Rapid Transit Line-2 project, another metro rail line to be laid out from Gabtoli to Chittagong Road on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway, faces a setback with the authorities now seeking to change the way it would be financed and implemented.

Those who travel by train between Dhaka and northern or southern districts of the country have to prepare for an ordeal when they reach a century-old rail bridge in Pabna’s Bhangura upazila.

Buses and trucks from Rajbari and surrounding districts use the Joukura ferry terminal every day to cross the Padma. In 2021, one Mostafizur Rahman Sharif got the lease of this ghat for three years from the Roads and Highway Department (RHD).

Commuters have been suffering immensely since this morning (September 28, 2022) due to a 20-km tailback on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Gauripur area of Cumilla for repair works on the highway.

A compartment of a freight train derailed in Gazipur’s Tongi this morning.

Bangladesh is going to start exporting goods to India by train for the first time in what is billed by many as a major boost to cross-border trade.

After three and a half hours of public suffering, the transport workers in Sylhet have finally lifted their strike tonight (September 22, 2022).

An indefinite transport strike was imposed on the Barguna-Dhaka route from this (September 19, 2022) morning, causing immense suffering to the commuters.

Mizan Khandaker, a patient with temporary vision loss in one eye, managed to get a doctor’s appointment at a Chennai hospital. He along with his wife left their Banasree home at 10:00am yesterday to catch the 2:45pm flight to India from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

The Gazipur City Corporation has resumed widening streets and construction of drains and footpaths without compensating those who lost land for the development work.

After hours of sufferings of the commuters, transport workers have postponed their indefinite strike till October 15 after a meeting with the administration this evening.

The low-lying areas of ​​Patuakhali have been submerged as water entered by breaking embankments at different places due to heavy rain and tidal surges.

Protesting the beating up of two bus drivers and a supervisor of a bus by plain-clothes policemen, bus workers have suspended the movement of bus service on all routes from Faridpur since this afternoon (September 13, 2022).

Jatri Kalyan Samity today (September 13, 2022) alleged that passengers of public transport in Dhaka are paying an overall Tk 182.42 crore in extra fares every day.

Transport workers of Sylhet district went on an indefinite strike this morning (September 13, 2022) to press home their five-point demands.

The government is taking up a fresh Tk 7,188 crore project to build a four-lane highway from Cumilla to Brahmanbaria that would improve connectivity between the port city and Sylhet and also make the transshipment arrangements with India more practicable.

The cost of the already delayed elevated expressway project in Chattogram city is likely to rise by Tk 1,048 crore and the deadline extended by two more years as a proposal in this regard is set to be placed before an Ecnec meeting today.

A large portion of the deck of a concrete bridge over a canal on Hatfadilpur-Nityanandapur road in Shailakupa upazila has remained unrepaired for over eight years, causing enormous sufferings to the people of 15 villages.

Scanners will be installed at both ends of the Karnaphuli tunnel in Chattogram to make sure that vehicles carrying flammable goods cannot use the underwater structure.

Construction work of Bus Rapid Transit Line-3 Project resumed yesterday, after a girder segment fell on a car on August 15 killing five people that prompted the authorities to suspend work.