Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday told parliament that around 30 percent of the construction

Around 30 percent of the construction work of the Padma multipurpose bridge has been completed so far and work is on to complete the mega project on time, the road transport and bridges minister has told the parliament.

Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) has inked a Tk 169 crore deal with 4 int'l and local consultancy firms for Management Support Consultancy service for the Padma Multipurpose Bridge project.

Blasting The Daily Star for running the DGFI-supplied false news against her during the last caretaker regime, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the Star editor himself could not demonstrate his “courage” by stepping down from his post after admitting his faults.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina tells parliament that the ‘conspirators’ of the Padma bridge project will be tried under the country’s existing laws.

The great poet Rabindranath Tagore used to frequent his tenants in Kushtia, Rajshahi and Pabna during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in

It is worth mentioning that from an engineering point of view, the project is one of the most challenging in the world. In terms of complexity, River Training Works contract is the most difficult.

We are very glad to see the recent progress of the Padma Bridge project. I want to give my sincere thanks to the PM for her relentless effort to make it happen. Now we expect timely completion of the project so that the country can reap the best out of it.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said high officials from the USA had threatened her that the World Bank funding to the Padma

The approved cost for the Padma bridge project is not too high if issues such as -- expenditure in similar projects

The Amazon and the Padma are the two most unpredictable and treacherous rivers in the world. And as the mighty Padma carries huge volumes of sediments making its bed very soft and tricky, building a bridge on it depends on controlling its behaviour.

The total cost of the much-hyped Padma bridge project will finally come to Tk 28,793.38 crore, which is almost

The outgoing 2015 will be remembered as a year of milestones for the country's economy because of a raft of achievements and

With the inauguration of the Padma Bridge by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on December 12, 2015, the dream bridge project is now in the

Massive development work of road and rail infrastructure is underway to optimise benefits of the Padma bridge, said Road Transport

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurates construction work of the much-expected Padma Bridge at Mawa in Munshiganj. Earlier, she inaugurated river training work at Jajira point in Shariatpur.

While the government's dream project Padma bridge is widely expected to boost the country's economy, there is also fear that it may take a heavy toll on the famous hilsa fish of the river.

The future of the Padma bridge will depend largely on how river training is done to keep such a meandering river under control during and after its construction. River training is the most challenging job for building the country's largest bridge because of the Padma's unpredictable characteristics, riverbank erosion, riverbed scouring and flash flood, say experts.

The landscape at the Padma bridge site is changing fast. Large excavators and cranes, dump trucks, bulldozers, loaders and dredgers are in operation round the clock on both sides of the Padma at Mawa and Janjira, around 50kms from the capital.

The government will spend the proceeds of the taka bond on big projects such as the Padma bridge, said Finance