At least 22 government primary schools in six districts will be affected due to the expansion of the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway, a project implemented by Roads and Highways Department (RHD).

Dhaka-Sylhet expansion work plagued by land acquisition issues

The expansion work of the Dhaka-Sylhet highway has been severely hampered due to long delays in land acquisition and the moving of utility lines.

Physical works of two mega infrastructure projects involving around Tk 70,000 crore will get underway this week, setting off a flurry of activities for the next several years.

Important road development projects should not be in incompetent hands

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.

Establish accountability to tackle habitual time-cost overruns in government projects

The impasse over financing of the expansion of 214-kilometre Dhaka-Sylhet Highway into four lanes is likely to end soon, as Asian Develop-ment Bank has given “consent” to fund the project, officials said.

Three persons are killed and eight others are injured in a road accident involving a pick-up van and a human haulier in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj.

Four bullet-hit bodies were found in Narayanganj while two decomposed bodies were recovered from a field in the capital's Uttara area yesterday.

Four people were killed and 10 others injured in a collision between a bus and a truck on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Shatmail area in Dakshin Surma upazila of Sylhet yesterday morning at around 7:00am.

Nine people are killed and four others injured in separate road accidents in Madhabdi and Shibpur upazilas.

Two people are killed and five others injured in a road accident on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Shibpur upazila of Narsingdi.

At least three day labourers are killed and another one critically injured as a goods-laden truck ran over them on Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Nabiganj upazila in Habiganj.

Industrialist Kazi Tajul Islam Farooq, 60, is killed when a truck hit him on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway in Habiganj Sadar upazila.

The government is to build a four-lane flyover at Bhulta on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway to ease traffic movement at the busy intersection used by vehicles of four different routes.

At least four people were killed and 20 others injured in a head-on collision between two buses on Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Gokulnagar in Raipura upazila of Narsingdi this afternoon.

Eid-ul-Azha is on us and people are leaving Dhaka to spend the holiday with friends and families.The journey home is a joyous occasion where everyone hopes to reach their destination without any glitches, however owing to the road condition a journey becomes a roller coaster ride-not of the pleasant kind but the one that churns your insides and makes you sick.

A 30-kilometre long tailback was created on both sides of Dhaka-Sylhet highway following suspension of vehicular movement due to repair work of a bridge in Sarail upazila of Brahmanbaria this morning.

The indefinite strike on Dhaka-Sylhet highway will be lifted at 4:00pm today.