Civil surgeons to seek limited magistracy powers
As the first-ever Civil Surgeon Conference begins today, the doctors are expected to seek limited powers of magistracy to take prompt action against illegal healthcare facilities.
11 May 2025, 18:29 PM
Health reform: Commission proposes four national health support networks
The Health Sector Reform Commission has recommended building national networks for four vital healthcare support services to ensure the availability, quality, and coverage of health services.
10 May 2025, 21:35 PM
Hospitals, diagnostic centres: 95% pvt facilities running without renewed licences
Thousands of private hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres continue to operate without renewing licences due to lax monitoring by the authorities, raising serious concerns over patient safety and quality of treatment.
9 May 2025, 18:05 PM
Regulate diagnostic costs, launch social health insurance
The Health Sector Reform Commission has recommended creating a national “Essential Diagnostics List (EDL)” and setting fixed prices for diagnostic tests to improve quality and ensure cost-effectiveness in diagnostic services.
6 May 2025, 18:00 PM
Make primary healthcare free for everyone
The Health Sector Reform Commission has recommended that the government make primary healthcare its constitutional obligation and provide it free of cost to ensure universal access.
5 May 2025, 18:01 PM
First-ever civil surgeon conference on May 12-13
The government is going to organise the first-ever civil surgeon conference next month, aiming to facilitate direct dialogue between central authorities and top district-level health officials, as well as to strengthen coordination among various government agencies.
17 April 2025, 18:00 PM
Lifesaver on the Meghna: Floating hospital brings hope to char people in Chandpur
Eighteen medical staff, including three doctors, provide services there
10 April 2025, 18:00 PM
Health sector: ACC seeks work order details for Salman’s entities
The Anti-Corruption Commission has requested information from health authorities regarding any work orders issued over the past 16 years to entities owned by Salman F Rahman, a former adviser to the prime minister on private industry and investment.
7 April 2025, 22:15 PM
Modhumoti, 3rd Shitalakhhya bridges to improve internal road link and beyond
Two more major roadway bridges will be opened to traffic on Monday (October 10, 2022), giving a big boost to the internal communication and beyond.
6 October 2022, 11:56 AM
MRT-2 physical work: Funding setback may delay the start
The Mass Rapid Transit Line-2 project, another metro rail line to be laid out from Gabtoli to Chittagong Road on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway, faces a setback with the authorities now seeking to change the way it would be financed and implemented.
6 October 2022, 02:30 AM
Dhaka-Sylhet 4-lane highway: Physical work set to begin after 7 years
Physical work to expand the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway is going to start finally, around seven years after a feasibility study was done to take up a project to improve connectivity between the capital and the southeast region, and beyond.
29 September 2022, 02:20 AM
Rail can rev up trade with India
Bangladesh is going to start exporting goods to India by train for the first time in what is billed by many as a major boost to cross-border trade.
28 September 2022, 02:20 AM
All expenses paid: MP, aide going abroad to inspect road equipment
Bizarrely, a lawmaker with her personal assistant and Roads and Highways Department chief engineer and an additional chief engineer are going to the US and Canada to inspect equipment like pothole repair machines before they are shipped to Bangladesh.
25 September 2022, 18:00 PM
BRT construction work resumes
Construction work of Bus Rapid Transit Line-3 Project resumed yesterday, after a girder segment fell on a car on August 15 killing five people that prompted the authorities to suspend work.
11 September 2022, 18:00 PM
First rest areas for truckers almost ready
If a driver of a truck feels tired during his long journey on highways, there are no facilities for them to rest.
11 September 2022, 03:00 AM
BR again seeks locomotives from India
With 67 percent of the locomotives of Bangladesh Railway (BR) past their economic life, the state-run agency has turned to India for the second time in less than four years to mitigate its engine crisis.
7 September 2022, 18:00 PM
Bus crash kills 8, exposes irregularities
The two buses that collided head-on in Rangpur early yesterday, leaving at least eight dead and over 50 injured, should not have been on the roads at all as neither had route permits.
6 September 2022, 02:20 AM
Ensuring safety at BRT Line-3: Planning Commission questions implementing agency’s role
The implementing authority of the BRT Line-3 has so far spent Tk 5.57 crore for ensuring safety at the project site, but it has failed to do so. The deaths of five people last month are a testament to the failure.
4 September 2022, 18:00 PM
Khulna-Mongla rail line: Not opening this year
When Bangladesh Railway in December 2010 took up the project for constructing Khulna-Mongla new rail line without any feasibility study, its deadline was December 2013.
30 August 2022, 03:00 AM
Project to buy carriages: After 6 years, it now needs a fresh start
Another railway project involving a Chinese contractor has plunged into deep uncertainty after a government committee directed the authorities not to take the hard loan arranged by the company.
29 August 2022, 02:30 AM
BRT set to miss new deadline
With the project authorities of BRT Line-3 having already failed to achieve their revised target, a recent tragedy has left them in further difficulties in meeting the proposed deadline of December 2022.
27 August 2022, 02:00 AM
2 Railway projects: Consultants come 4 months before deadlines end
Bangladesh Railway yesterday signed two separate contracts with consultants for two expansion projects, just four months before the project deadlines end.
26 August 2022, 03:00 AM
8th Bangladesh-China Friendship Bridge in Pirojpur to open on Sep 4
The much-awaited Bekutia Bridge, formally known as the 8th Bangladesh-China Friendship Bridge, in Pirojpur is set to be opened on September 4.
25 August 2022, 12:03 PM
Illegal rail crossings: Mushrooming despite rising fatalities
Different government agencies have built at least 140 level crossings across the country over the last four years without taking permission from Bangladesh Railway.
22 August 2022, 02:00 AM
Dhaka-Jashore rail project hits a snag
Supply issues of ballast for railway tracks and complexities centring shifting utility lines inside Dhaka city are the new challenges facing Dhaka-Jashore rail line project, which is already running behind the original schedule.
20 August 2022, 18:00 PM
Safety issues in focus, at last
Different government agencies and project authorities finally seem to be paying attention to safety regulations after five people were crushed to death by a girder of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Line-3 on Monday.
19 August 2022, 02:00 AM
Top officials asked to explain girder accident
The chief engineer of Roads and Highways Department and the managing director of Dhaka Bus Rapid Transit Company Ltd were asked to explain Monday’s incident that killed five people in the capital’s Uttara.
17 August 2022, 18:00 PM
Work of BRT project halted
Physical work of the entire Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Line-3 project will remain suspended until foolproof safety measures are in place, the authorities decided yesterday.
17 August 2022, 02:00 AM