World Bank today approved $358 million to help Bangladesh improve road safety, and reduce fatalities and injuries from road accidents in selected high-risk highways and district roads.

Despite the massive student protest for safe roads, followed by numerous assurances from the authorities that the government will strictly ensure road safety, the number of deaths and injuries on roads and highways during the Eid holidays indicates that nothing has, in fact, changed.

With only a few days left for Eid-ul-Azha, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader instructs the engineers of the Roads and Highways Division to fix damaged roads within 24 hours.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says the ministry will take a decision on lowering transport fares on Monday.

A national workshop will be organised in April to finalise the draft of road transport act, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says today.

When the roads and highways are strewn with rundown and ramshackle vehicles, the syndicates are proving to be serious impediments to the introduction of new and comfortable vehicles in the private sector.