Rashida Aktar, a postgraduate student, suffered a lot on the road when she went to Eden Mohila College in the capital for an exam yesterday morning.

The bus and launch fares are now up by as much as 28 percent and 43 percent respectively, in the first manifestation of the impact the Tk 15 hike in diesel and kerosene prices will have on the cost of living for the poor and the middle-class.

Over 20,000 residents of Betuan village of Dilpashra union under Pabna’s Vangura upazila have to undergo perennial suffering due to the lack of a paved road in the village.

A government committee, led by Delwar Hossain, member of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA), has fixed 35 percent hike in launch fare for a distance of less than 100 km, and 43 percent hike for more than 100 km.

After the government met their demand, Bangladesh Road Transport Owners Association today called off the indefinite transport strike it enforced on Friday.

The government has issued a gazette notification setting new fare for Dhaka and Chattogram cities and inter-district buses and minibuses.

A government committee has sat in a meeting at the headquarters of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) in Dhaka today to re-fix the launch fare.

Associations of goods-carrying vehicle owners said they will continue the ongoing strike until the government slashes fuel price.

Despite the countrywide transport strike, protesting fuel price hike, a faction of owners started operating services in Chattogram city this morning.

Dhaka's Kamalapur Railway Station is seeing rush of passengers -- trying to reach their destinations -- as buses stay off the roads for the third consecutive day, protesting the recent fuel price hike.

The meeting of a government committee, led by the chairman of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA), for re-fixing bus fare started at BRTA headquarters in Dhaka this morning.

Locals in Savar have asked the authorities to shut a development project off as they found cracks in an under-construction road even before its opening.

As a side-effect of the ongoing country-wide transport strike, the price of vegetables has gone up at wholesale and retail markets of Khulna.

Launch owners started suspending operations of vessels across the country from this afternoon -- protesting the latest fuel price hike.

A faction of transport owners in Chattogram city has decided to operate services -- and not observe the transport strike -- starting from 6am tomorrow.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is monitoring the situation evolving in the country following the fuel price hike.

Launch owners started suspending launch operations across the country from today -- protesting the fuel price hike.

Transport workers as well as workers of different readymade garment (RMG) factories blockaded Tiger Pass intersection in Chattogram city for over three hours this morning, protesting the fuel price hike.

A meeting between the home minister and a section of transport leaders today ended inconclusively over the ongoing nationwide transport strike enforced protesting the fuel price hike.

Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity today demanded the government cancels its decision to increase fuel price and thus relieve people of the transport strike.