Only light vehicles such as private cars, SUVs, microbuses and ambulances will be ferried on the Shimulia- Banglabazar route -- from 6am to 5pm -- every day for Padma Bridge’s security, due to the current in the river.

After a long closure of 47 days, ferry services resumed operation on trial on the Shimulia-Banglabazar route from today after it was halted on August 18.

Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan today sought media cooperation to create awareness for preventing stones thrown on running trains.

Eight more cars and four engines of metro rail reached Mongla port around 11:00am yesterday.

Rail communication of Kishoreganj with Dhaka and Chattogram resumed this evening, five hours after suspension following a train derailment in Bhairab.

A ship with Thai flag, carrying eight more compartments and four engines of Dhaka Metro Rail project, reached Mongla port today.

Construction of the Payra bridge, which a fourth-grade student Shirshendu Biswas demanded for in a letter to the prime minister in 2016, will be completed by 2025. 

Local people have been suffering a lot since a portion of a newly built concrete road in Sirajganj’s Tarash upazila collapsed in a roadside pond.

Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan yesterday sought India’s cooperation for the quick release of funds for the projects which are being implemented under the Indian Line of Credit (LoC), in order to maintain deadlines.

App-based drivers’ union of Bangladesh, a platform of drivers providing ride sharing services, will go on work abstention tomorrow to press home their six-point demand.

Bangladesh Railway (BR) today signed a contract with an Indian joint venture firm for preparatory work on Sirajganj-Bogura Rail Link Project.

A group of owners and workers of goods-carrying vehicles, who had vowed to go on a 48-hour work abstention from tomorrow, withdrew their programme following a meeting with the home minister today.

Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan yesterday opened a 24-kilometre dual-gauge double-line from Laksham to Cumilla for train operation.

Dhaka-Ashulia Elevated Expressway, the second such expressway centring Dhaka, will be open to public in June 2026, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said yesterday.

Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan today opened a 24-kilometre dual-gauge double-line from Laksham to Cumilla for train operation.

Dhaka-Ashulia Elevated Expressway, which is expected to facilitate quick entry and exit of vehicles to and from Dhaka, will come into operation in June 2026, said Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader.

A project to acquire land and relocate utility service lines for expanding the Dhaka-Sylhet-Tamabil highway is likely to be delayed by two and a half years and cost double, according to the latest revision proposal of the project.

A group of owners and workers of goods-carrying vehicles yesterday vowed to go for a 48-hour work abstention from September 27 if the government does not meet their 10-point demand within September 26.

A group of owners and workers of goods-carrying vehicles today vowed to go for a 48-hour work abstention from September 27 if the government does not meet their 10-point demand within September 26.

The under-construction rail line between Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar would be opened by December next year, said Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan yesterday. Project documents, however, tell a different story.