Tamanna Yesmin, a temporary railway gatekeeper, was supposed to be working at Harishankarpur level-crossing on Kushtia section to ensure safe passage of trains.
Bangladesh Railway yesterday signed a contract with a local private company to construct a shopping mall and a hotel/guest house in Chattogram, with the aim to increase its income.
Bangladesh Railway and railways ministry officials will make four trips to Europe, the USA, and India over the next three months despite the pandemic for what they said would be studies, receiving training, and visiting factories.
A South Korean consortium has started its study to assess whether it would invest on a project for building a circular railway around the capital, under a public private partnership (PPP) initiative.
On August 15, five-year-old Azmir Islam was returning to Syedpur with his family on an intercity train. As the train reached near the signal at Nilphamari’s Syedpur station in the evening, a stone, thrown from outside, hit Azmir’s right eye, leaving him injured.