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.

In December 2017, Bangladesh Railway (BR) took up a project to procure 20 metre-gauge (MG) locomotives and 150 MG carriages to expand railway services and resolve the growing crisis of rail engines and coaches.

RZD International, a subsidiary of Russian Railways, has expressed interest to finance three proposed railway projects, including the much-talked-about high-speed rail line on the Dhaka-Chattogram corridor.

With the number of road crashes on the rise, authorities have decided to take a tough stance against unfit and illegal vehicles across the country, aiming to improve the situation.

Bangladesh Railway continues to make huge losses from its operations allegedly due to poor services, corruption, and a lack of proper management of assets.

A Chinese company has proposed building a metro rail line in Chattogram and reclaiming land from the sea to build a 60-square km “smart city” in exchange for a share of the latter.

More than five lakh registered vehicles are now on the road without fitness clearance mainly due to poor monitoring by the authorities amid the pandemic.