Members of Rapid Action Battalion arrested 10 persons including the mastermind in the cases filed over the gang-rape of a woman and looting of valuables of passengers after hijacking a bus on the Dhaka-Tangail highway on August 3, 2022.

Increased number of vehicles on the Tangail-Sirajganj route has created long tailbacks  near Bangabandhu Bridge on the Dhaka-Tangail highway.

Three day labourers were killed in a road accident on the Dhaka-Tangail highway at Mirzapur upazila early today.

Transport workers fear that Eid holidaymakers will suffer delays on the Dhaka-Tangail highway, known as the gateway to northern districts, as the construction of seven out of ten underpasses still remains incomplete.

With every Eid comes a concern: How to get home? Almost every time, the holidaymakers go through nightmarish experience on highways, thanks to traffic jams caused by poor road conditions and traffic management.

Three teenagers were killed after a bus rammed into their motorbike on Dhaka-Tangail highway in Gazipur's Konabari area yesterday.

A sub-inspector of Bangabandhu Bridge East Police Station in Tangail is suspended after transport workers block the road on the eastern side of the Bangabandhu Bridge for three hours bringing allegation that the SI assaulted a truck driver for extortion.

Three of an eight-member family, heading home for celebrating Durja Puja, were killed when a goods-laden truck, which they were travelling on, flipped on its side after skidding off the road in Tangail's Mirzapur early yesterday.

Transport workers fear that holidaymakers would face traffic jams during Eid rush in Dherua level crossing area in Mirzapur on Dhaka-Tangail highway. The road is narrow there and traffic is stopped repeatedly due to crossing of trains.

Abdur Rahman Bodi, the lawmaker from Cox's Bazar-4 (Ukhia-Teknaf), will not be spared if proof of drug dealing is found against him, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader warns.

Hundreds of vehicles were stuck in a gridlock on Dhaka-Tangail highway for seven hours causing immense suffering to people.

There was a 40km-long tailback on Dhaka-Tangail highway yesterday due to ongoing road expansion work, traffic bottlenecks, poor road condition, and high number of vehicles during the weekend.

A 15-kilometre long tailback is created on Dhaka-Tangail highway due to slow vehicular movement caused by potholes in Elenga area of Tangail.

Thousands of passengers have been suffering in a 10-kilometre tailback on the Dhaka-Tangail highway as a portion of the highway subsided in Kaliakoir due to recent downpour.

Thousands of passengers and transport workers remained stuck on Dhaka-Tangail highway for the second day suffering long tailbacks triggered by rains coupled with poor road condition.

People are still stuck on the Dhaka-Tangail highway as two tailbacks, which has been created due to poor road condition.

A long tailback of about 20 kilometres ensues on Dhaka-Tangail highway due to separate incidents of break downs and road crash coupled with bad condition of the road.

Road transportation between Dhaka and different parts of the country -- south, west and north -- virtually collapsed yesterday, amid a huge rush of people returning to the capital from Eid vacation, due to heavy traffic creating tailbacks on roads and delayed ferry services.

A 60-kilometre tailback is created on the Dhaka-Tangail highway due to a heavy rush of vehicles. Thousands of passengers were suffering immensely on the highway since last night as vehicles are moving slowly.

Several hundred vehicles are at a stand-still on both sides at the Paturia- Daulatdia ferry ghat as strong currents on the Padma river hamper ferry services.