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.

Shanta Khatun held her 45-day-old son tightly in her arms on the back of her father’s motorcycle as they were taking their ailing child to the upazila health complex in Kaliganj, Jhenidah, yesterday morning.

Two unidentified teenagers were killed and one was injured in a motorcycle accident in Gaibandha’s Gobindaganj upazila this morning.

At least seven people were killed and six others injured in separate road accidents in Dhaka and Chattogram today.

A senior official of the Save the Children Bangladesh has been admitted to the intensive care unit of a hospital after he was hit by a truck in the capital’s Jurain area on Saturday.

A youth dies and another is injured in a road accident in front of the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka University.