MNA National Desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday directed the Railways Ministry to properly repair shabby rail bridges across the country and take a project to this end. “The old rail bridges will have to be repaired properly… I think all the old and worn-out rail bridges will have to be repaired after conducting a survey across the country,” she said. The Prime Minister gave the directive while opening a number of development projects, including two water treatment plants, two bridges and several train services through a videoconference from her official residence Ganobhaban. Sheikh Hasina said if a separate ...
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Those responsible for Kulaura accident not to be spared: Railways Minister
MNA National Desk: Railways Minister Md Nurul Islam Sujan on Wednesday said that if investigation into Kulaura accident finds anyone guilty of negligence, then stern action will be taken against that person. He made the remark while talking to reporters after paying a visit to the people injured in the accident at Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital. At least five people were killed and 67 people injured when six coaches of Dhaka-bound ‘Upaban Express’ from Sylhet veered off the tracks at Baramchal in Kulaura upazila on Sunday night. Minister Sujan said Tk 0.1 million will be provided to each family ...
Read More »Sheikh Hasina, Modi flag off Khulna-Kolkata rail service
MNA Exclusive Desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on Thursday jointly flagged off the Khulna-Kolkata train service and opened two bridges on railway routes connecting Dhaka with Sylhet and Chittagong. The two premiers along with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurated the projects through a videoconferencing from Dhaka and New Delhi when they also launched an ‘end to end’ immigration and customs facilities to ease Dhaka-Kolkata Maitree Train services. Sheikh Hasina opened the projects from her official Ganabhaban residence in Dhaka, while Narendra Modi inaugurated the schemes from his office in New Delhi. West ...
Read More »Indian Railways warn for taking Selfies during travelling
MNA Science & Technology Desk: A day after the selfie craze inside a running train led to the deaths of several youths, the Eastern Railways authorities appealed to passengers to be careful and issued guidelines. A railway spokesman said they have already launched campaigns in print, television and social media to make passengers aware of the risks of using phones while travelling. In a horrific turn of events, a youth fell from a running train between Bali and Liluah railway stations while trying to click a selfie on Thursday night. Four of his friends were hit by another train while ...
Read More »Road accidents becoming common threat to life in Bangladesh
MNA Editorial Desk: Road accidents are becoming a more common tool of threat to life in Bangladesh. A total of 186 people were killed and 746 others were injured as some 127 incidents took place on road, rail and river ways across the country during the nine-day Eid holidays. Of them, 172 people died in road; 11 in waterway; and three in railway accidents in the country since July 1, said Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity (BJKS) in its report. The BJKS road accident monitoring team says that 46 percent of motorcycles, 32 percent of buses, 18 percent of three-wheelers and ...
Read More »Railways started selling advanced tickets for Eid-ul-Fitr
MNA National Desk: The railways have started selling advanced tickets for trips ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, ticket buyers stand up in the line in hundreds since the night before at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka. Eid ul-Fitr, “festival of breaking of the fast”, is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting. The religious Eid is a single day during which Muslims are not permitted to fast. The sales opened on Wednesday with advance tickets for Jul 1 being made available. Tickets for July 2 would be sold ...
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