Transport leaders yesterday called for restrictions on motorbike operations on highways in a bid to reduce the number of road crashes – a major concern over the past years.

Transport leaders today called for imposing restrictions on plying of bikes on highways to reduce road accidents.

The Dhaka-bound Padma Express train left Rajshahi this evening (July 27, 2022) nearly two and a half hours after students including Rajshahi University admission seekers barred the train in protest of selling train tickets on the black market.

Students including Rajshahi University admission seekers barred a Dhaka-bound train of Padma Express from leaving the platform at Rajshahi in protest of selling train tickets on the black market.

Substandard materials are allegedly being used in construction of a paved road is Basail upazila, thanks to the alleged negligence of the authorities concerned.

Dhaka University student Mohiuddin Roni today (July 25, 2022) called off his protest, against the mismanagement and corruption in the country's railway system, for the time being.

Shohoz JV today claimed that it showed no negligence in providing services, adding that the allegations made by Dhaka University student Mohiuddin Roni were not true.

The High Court yesterday came down hard on Bangladesh Railway for mismanagement, ticket scalping and carrying passengers on the train roofs.

The High Court today (July 21, 2022) blasted Bangladesh Railway authorities for mismanagement in the railway services, including ticket scalping, and observed that no passenger can travel on train roof.

The Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) has fined ticketing platform shohoz.com Tk 2 lakh – for its negligence in the process of selling tickets.

Train operation from Dhaka to other destinations across the country has resumed as demonstrating students called off their blockade at 12:22pm today (July 20, 2022).

Train operations from Dhaka to other destinations across the country, except Narayanganj, have been suspended after some students blocked the rail line at Airport Station in the capital from around 9am today (July 20, 2022).

Dhaka Metro Rail, from Uttara to Agargaon, will be operational by December this year, project officials said. They shared the information at the ECNEC meeting today (July 19, 2022).

With the partial launch of the country’s first ever metro rail only five months away, the project cost is set to rise by more than half, and the deadline is also going to be extended by a year and half.

Economic activities in four upazilas including three in Kurigram district and one in Lalmonirhat could not gain the momentum as desired despite the inauguration of the Sheikh Hasina Dharla Bridge over the Dharla river in 2018.

There was a fear that opening the Padma Bridge may worsen gridlocks at the entrance to the capital’s south due to a lack of planning to dealing with additional traffic.

Thousands of people suffered for hours in tailbacks on Bangabandhu bridge link road in Tangail for the fourth straight day yesterday.

Padma Bridge project authority will start the process of handing over the structure to the railway authority tomorrow so that the latter can start installing rail track on the lower deck of the bridge.

Rail communications of Dhaka with the country's northern part were restored six hours after derailment of Dhaka-bound Ekota Express at Tilakpur railway station in Joypurhat’s Akkelpur upazila around 5am today (July 16, 2022).

Thousands of people suffered for hours under the scorching sun in tailbacks on Bangabandhu Bridge approach road at Elenga of Tangail yesterday.