Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) has said that a decision on salvaging the sunken ferry Shah Amanat could come after a meeting today.

Thousands of residents in Kurigram’s Roumari upazila have been building and maintaining around fifty bamboo bridges for years.

Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) is not capable of rescuing the tilted ferry Amanat Shah, said its Chairman Commodore Golam Sadeq today

Bangladesh Railway (BR) is finally going to start a feasibility study to explore whether electric train service can be introduced on Narayanganj-Dhaka-Chattogram route.

Around 200 vehicles have been stranded on one-and-a-half-kilometre stretch of road following the rescue operation of a ferry that tipped over at Paturia Ghat yesterday.

Bangladesh and China have signed an agreement of USD 1126.99 million for construction of the Dhaka-Ashulia Elevated Expressway project -- aiming to reduce traffic congestion.

More than two and a half years ago, Bangladesh Railway had launched a project to carry out a feasibility study and prepare a detailed design to set up tracks for connecting Sunamganj district headquarters with the railway network.

The MA Manna Flyover in Chattogram will be opened for vehicular movement within two days as an expert team yesterday found no evidence of the cracks suspected to have formed in two pillars of its ramp.

Part of a bridge on Korail-Hilora-Adabari road in Mohera Union Parishad under Mirzapur upazila of Tangail has collapsed, snapping road communication in the area and causing suffering to the villagers.

The Shipping Ministry has formed a seven-member committee to investigate into the capsize of a ferry at Paturia Terminal in Manikganj today.

The work of pitch casting has started on the viaduct road of Padma Bridge, at Jajira point of Shariatpur.

A ferry capsized near pontoon 5 at Paturia Terminal in Manikganj today with 14 trucks, three covered vans, and seven motorcycles.

The Chattorgam Development Authority (CDA) has ruled out the report that cracks have developed on two pillars of MA Mannan Flyover.

The chief engineer of Chattogram Development Authority (CDA) today said that the news that there is a crack in one of the ramps of MA Mannan flyover in the port city is a rumour.

After a crack in a ramp of MA Mannan Flyover in the port city was found around 10:00pm last night, police stopped vehicular movement on and under the flyover.

Although the Bangladesh Railway has started operating 10 locomotives that the South Korean company -- Hyundai Rotem -- supplied in breach of contract, the impasse over payment to the supplier is yet to be over.

An important bridge on Jagirpara-Gourakhali road in Netrakona’s Durgapur upazila collapsed within two years of its construction but it has remained unrepaired for the last 23 years.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today inaugurated the much-awaited bridge constructed over the Payra river in Lebukhali area on Patuakhali-Barishal highway for traffic movement, paving the way for travelling to Patuakhali from Barisal without ferry.

Although it was declared abandoned over a decade ago, the bridge on the main canal of the Ganges-Kobadak (GK) Irrigation Project on Kushtia-Pragpur road in Bheramara upazila is yet to be removed and there is still no initiative to replace it with a new one. Vehicles are plying over the bridge taking an immense risk.

Locals as well as businesses operating transport services on Patuakhali-Barisal Highway, running across the Payra river, are urging the authorities to revise the steep toll rates that have been posted ahead of the formal inauguration of the newly-built Payra bridge.