It will be compulsory for passengers to have copies of their identification cards while travelling on intercity trains from March 1 to keep black marketing and unauthorised travel in check, the railways minister said yesterday.

People will be able to register using NID, birth registration or passport using BR's system from tomorrow. No one will be allowed to buy tickets of intercity trains without pre-registration from March 1, he said.

The consortium of Japan's Oriental Consultant Global, France's EGIS and Malaysia's HSS will carry out the feasibility study and detailed design for 11 sub-projects

For the first time, the road transport and bridges ministry has made public the statistics of road accidents and casualties for a particular month, January.

Chattogram-Cox's Bazar rail line, Khulna-Mongla rail line, Dhaka-Bhanga section of the Padma Bridge Rail Link, and Akhaura-Laksam double line are supposed to significantly improve communications

After China abruptly withdrew from its role of financier of the Joydebpur-Ishwardi Double Line Project a couple of years ago, Bangladesh Railway (BR) is now reviving it with Japanese assistance.

Metro rail authorities will open the Uttara Centre Station to the public on February 18 and the Mirpur-10 station on March 1.

According to the project, two tubes having 35 feet wide, and 16 feet high have been constructed within an 11-metre gap so that heavy vehicles can pass through the tunnel easily.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said Dhaka city will witness a "massive difference by 2030" as the government will implement various projects for improving rail connectivity to ease traffic congestion in the capital

Full fledged operation--from morning to midnight--between Uttara and Agargaon will start in July.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate a rail line, constructed for easing the transportation of cargo to Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, in Pabna today.

Under the deal, the joint venture will expand a 15.7km stretch from Sarail intersection to Budhonti bus stand in Brahmanbaria and build 11 bridges and 11 culverts and carry out other tasks.

Ready-mix concrete is on a truck. An excavator carries and pours it onto the surface of an under-construction road. Then an automatic concrete-paving machine joins in and does the rest.

The iconic terminal will be opened for operation in October this year.

Nobody will be allowed to buy a motorcycle without a driving licence. Also, one would need a licence to get a motorcycle registered with the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority.

Rail communications between Sylhet and Chattogram resumed after one and a half hours of suspension following an engine failure of the Paharika Express train in Akhaura upazila of Brahmanbaria this afternoon.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said a new development milestone for Bangladesh has been set today with the inauguration of construction of the country's first underground metro rail.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today inaugurated the construction of Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Line-1, the country's first underground metro rail.

The runway of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka will remain closed for five hours each night for the next two months starting tomorrow for renovation of the runway lighting system..Kamrul Islam, executive director, HSIA told The Daily Star that flight operations in the

Metro rail authorities today said they would not have to break down the Purbachal Expressway to construct the elevated section of MRT Line 1.