Bangladesh Railway will start selling advance train tickets on May 21 to ensure a smooth and convenient Eid journey for holiday travellers.
Another exposé of wasteful spending shows the urgency of corrective action
Restore the water body of airport area, solve waterlogging
Intercity services to resume from August 15, tickets available from 5pm tomorrow
That Bangladesh Railway (BR) has been a loss-incurring entity for almost a decade is not news.
Bangladesh Railway had taken up a project in 2010 to bring Tungipara of Gopalganj under the railway network without carrying out any feasibility study.
Bangladesh Railway in October 2007 took up a project to construct a new station building in Khulna and enhance the operational capacity of the Benapole Station.
Workers take up position in front of Rail Bhaban to press home demands
After observing the slow pace of a project under which rail tracks are being laid on a 19km stretch between Faridpur and Magura, a report prepared by a government body has accused the railway authorities of serious lacking in their monitoring.
Why should two political parties of the same nation receive polar opposite treatments?
Although Bangladesh Railway has expanded its efforts to provide rail transport in more areas of the country, its central locomotive workshop in Parbatipur upazila of Dinajpur is unable to operate at full force owing to a shortage of workers and funds.
Bangladesh Railway is moving forward with its plan to build a chord line from Dhaka to Cumilla via Narayanganj to shorten the distance between the capital and the port city.
Past high time for railway sector to face the music for its irregularities
Nearly one in every three passenger trains remain inoperative due to shortages of carriages and manpower.
When Bangladesh Railway in December 2010 took up the project for constructing Khulna-Mongla new rail line without any feasibility study, its deadline was December 2013.
Eleven passengers, including seven students, were killed in the collision between a microbus and a train in Mirsarai last month.
Another railway project involving a Chinese contractor has plunged into deep uncertainty after a government committee directed the authorities not to take the hard loan arranged by the company.
Demonstrating tea workers today halted Paharika Express, which runs on Chattogram-Sylhet route, demanding a daily wage of Tk 300.
Different government agencies have built at least 140 level crossings across the country over the last four years without taking permission from Bangladesh Railway.
