A 72-hour transport strike, enforced by the transport workers and owners, is underway in Sylhet division on Tuesday demanding resumption of stone extraction from quarries.

Three highways will be upgraded into four-lane ones in the current fiscal,  aiming to improve the national transport system and infrastructures for better road communications across the country .

Road communications with  Dighirpur and adjacent areas in Tongibari upazila of Munshiganj district came to a halt as a bailey bridge collapsed in Puru Bazar area on Monday morning.   Witnesses said the bridge collapsed around 8am with a big bang  while a overloaded truck was crossing it.