Several hundred vehicles are at a stand-still on both sides at the Paturia- Daulatdia ferry ghat as strong currents on the Padma river hamper ferry services.

Eid holidaymakers suffer on their way home due to tailbacks on the highways in Comilla and Munshiganj.

Thousands of home-bound holidaymakers, who are leaving Dhaka, face long tailbacks at places on different highways outside the city due to the heavy pressure of vehicles.

The expanded four-lane highways connecting Dhaka with Chittagong and Mymensingh would make travel faster and easier, and advance trade, export and import, contributing to the GDP.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate Dhaka-Chittagong and Joydebpur-Mymensingh four-lane highways on July 2, the road transport and bridges minister says.

Five people are killed and over 30 injured in separate road crashes in Narayanganj.

Traffic on Dhaka-Chittagong highway has returned to normal after one-and-half hour following the death of a college student in Comilla yesterday.

His fractured left arm was bandaged while wounds were still fresh on his forehead and cheek and in the corner of one eye.

Reckless driving virtually wiped out two families yesterday as slack enforcement of traffic rules continue to give law-breaking drivers impunity, exposing thousands of road users to the constant danger.

A policeman is killed and three others injured as a police pickup van falls into a roadside ditch after being hit by a truck at Kajirdighi on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Feni Sadar upazila.

At least 20 people are injured, two of them bullet-hit, in a clash between supporters of the Awami League mayoral candidate and the party’s rebel contender in Chauddagram of Comilla.

The Road Transport and Highways Division and four Japanese construction companies today signed a deal to construct three new bridges and a flyover, worth around Tk 8.8 thousand crore, on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway.

Four people are killed as an unspecified vehicle rams a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Siddhirganj upazila of Narayanganj.

Seven people are killed in Chittagong’s Mirsharai upazila after a truck veered off the road and landed into a roadside ditch. The incident takes place on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway’s Sonapahar area around 5:30am.

Six fish traders are killed and seven injured as a truck carrying them overturns on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Comilla Sadar upazila.

There will be no compromise with the ban on auto-rickshaws on highways, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says.

CNG-run auto-rickshaw drivers clash with police on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Narayanganj during protests against the highway ban.

Low speed and slippery driving make CNG-run auto-rickshaws ideal prey for road crashes causing loss of innocent lives on the highways.

CNG auto-rickshaw drivers and owners continue their protest against the ban on their vehicles from plying on the highways.

CNG-run auto-rickshaw drivers blockaded Dhaka-Chittagong highway for an hour protesting highway ban on the vehicles.