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.

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.

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.

The bridge constructed over the Payra river in Lebukhali area on Patuakhali-Barishal highway will open to traffic tomorrow.

The first batch of operations and maintenance staff and officials of Dhaka Metro Rail is undergoing training at the prestigious Delhi Metro Rail Academy (DMRA) in Shastri Park Depot in east Delhi.

The government has officially abandoned its decade-long plan to build an expressway on the Dhaka-Chattogram corridor, a crucial cog for the Bangladesh economy, under public-private partnership -- after shelling out Tk 100 crore on a feasibility study and getting a detailed design.

Several thousands people of at least seven villages under Nagarpur upazila of the district have been suffering for long due to lack of a concrete bridge on a branch of the Dhaleswari river.

The traffic at Paturia ferry terminal in Manikganj further increased yesterday as the movement of heavy vehicles remained shut on Banglabazar-Shimulia naval route.

Hundreds of vehicles are waiting at Paturia ferry ghat in Manikganj to cross the Padma River as the pressure of vehicles has increased at Paturia ferry ghat due to a ban on heavy vehicles at Shimulia-Banglabazar route.

The expansion work of Nalka Bridge, on the western end of the Bangabandhu Bridge, has caused a long tailback since Wednesday.

Savar’s Namabazar Road is a busy place. Every day, people from at least 20 areas of Dhamrai upazila and Savar municipality use the road, which connects to different points of Dhaka-Aricha highway and Savar-Singair regional highway.

The pressure of vehicles has increased at Paturia ferry ghat in Manikganj due to a ban on heavy vehicles at Shimulia-Banglabazar route.

Hundred of goods laden trucks are having to wait in line at Kazirhat ferry terminal every day to cross the Kazirhat-Aricha waterway as authorities have replaced two new ferries on the route with two old ones.

The BIWTC yesterday suspended ferry services on the Shimulia-Banglabazar route due to strong currents in the Padma.

Due to strong currents in the Padma river, Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) has suspended ferry service between Shimulia in Munshiganj and Banglabazar in Madaripur.

Forty-eight steel guards have been placed around the two main pillars of the Payra bridge to protect them from collisions.