Tk 7,300cr likely to get slashed from two railway projects
Two railway projects are likely to see budget cuts of around Tk 7,300 crore in a slimming-down attempt as officials view that earlier these projects were not 鈥榚xamined properly鈥�...
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Train service on Ctg route to resume from today
The Bangladesh Railway is scheduled to resume services of 10 passenger trains from Chattogram to different destinations of Bangladesh from today (Tuesday) after five days, following the...
BR cancels journeys of 31 trains from Ctg, Sylhet due to flood
The Bangladesh Railway on Thursday cancelled journeys of 26 trains fully and that of five others partially from Chattogram and Sylhet for different destinations of Bangladesh, following the bending of rail tracks and washout of stones due to flood....
Railway to get 3 taskforces to check irregularities
The interim government鈥檚 railways adviser, Muhammad Fauzul Kabir Khan, on Monday ordered to form three taskforces for checking ticket blacking, late running of trains and management of railway land...
Temporary gatekeepers lock Rail Bhaban for hours for job nationalisation
Several hundred temporary level crossing gatekeepers of Bangladesh Railway locked the Rail Bhaban on Sunday keeping officials and employees inside the building for about four hours demanding nationalisation of their jobs...
Intercity train services to resume from Aug 15 after a month
The Bangladesh Railway is scheduled to resume intercity train services on long distances from August 15 gradually, about a month after it had stopped the services...
49 passenger trains run on Thursday
The Bangladesh Railway on Thursday resumed train services only on short distances, about two weeks after it had stopped the services...
Train services on short distances from Thursday
The Bangladesh Railway is scheduled to resume train services only on short distances from August 1, about two weeks after it had stopped the services...
Train services to resume on short distances from Thursday
The Bangladesh Railway is scheduled to resume train services only on short distances from August 1, about two weeks after it had stopped the services.
No decision made on resuming train services: railway DG
The director general of Bangladesh Railway, Sardar Shahadat Ali, said on Thursday that no decision was made on when Bangladesh Railway would resume its services.
Train operation suspended for indefinite period
The authorities suspended railway services across the country for an indefinite period on Saturday due to passengers鈥� safety...
Students鈥� blockade snaps rail link between Dhaka, rest of Bangladesh
Rail communications between Dhaka and the rest of Bangladesh were snapped Thursday afternoon as students demanding quota reform in government jobs blocked the rail track at Mohakhali area in the capital....
Many railway, road projects miss deadlines
Over a dozen important railways and road infrastructure projects missed deadlines in June this year, delaying the benefit from their utility, while raising...
Female passenger raped in running train, 3 catering service staff arrested
The Railway Police on Wednesday arrested three staff of Bangladesh Railway's catering service allegedly for raping a female passenger in a moving train, Udayan Express, on the Sylhet-Chattogram route in the early hours of the day....
Ctg-Cox鈥檚 Bazar train service extended by one month
Amid the demand for regularising the special train service on the Chittagong-Cox鈥檚 Bazar route, the railways authorities on Sunday took a decision to extend the service till July 24 this year...
Holidaymakers suffer in tailbacks, train schedule disruption
Travails of homebound holidaymakers began as they started leaving Dhaka city in large numbers on Friday ahead of Eid-ul-Azha amid long tailbacks on the highways and train schedule disruptions...
Circular railway to be built around Dhaka: minister
Railways minister Md Zillul Hakim on Monday told the Jatiya Sangsad that 230 projects, worth Tk 5.53 lakh crore, had been planned to construct circular railways around Dhaka city till 2045....
BR starts selling advance Eid ticket online
Bangladesh Railway on Sunday began the sale of the advanced tickets on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha as all tickets will be available online...
Chuadanga-Dhaka to witness direct rail connectivity via Padma Bridge in July
Starting in July, residents of Chuadanga district will have direct train access to Dhaka, reducing travel time to just five hours....
Mongla Commuter train on new section from June 1
Bangladesh Railway is scheduled to introduce a commuter train on the new Khulna-Benapole-Mongla route on June 1...
Railway to sell advance Eid tickets from June 2
The Bangladesh Railway is going to sell all advance intercity train tickets ahead of Eid-ul-Azha online from June 2 on different schedules...
Sale of advance train ticket for Eid-ul-Azha to begin June 2
The sale of advance train tickets for Eid-ul-Azha holidaymakers across Bangladesh will start online from June 2....
BR analysing freight, cargo facilities to make future plans
Bangladesh Railway authorities are analysing its container, freight and cargo transportation facilities for taking future plans...
Govt shouldn鈥檛 let train services operation out to private hands
THIS is a good piece of news that the railway authorities, which run keeping to the Railways Act 1890, are updating the legislation understandably to keep pace with the changed context of the modern world...
Draft rail law allows private train service
The railway authorities have prepared the draft Bangladesh Railway Bill, 2024, by keeping a provision for letting private companies own rolling stock to carry passengers, goods, and parcels...
Delayed implementation of projects a manifold burden
THE Bangladesh Railway鈥檚 failure to complete the Khulna-Mongla railway project and start train services 14 years after the project was taken and seven months after it was inaugurated shows once again the sorry state of project implementation...
Bangladesh Railway to buy 200 carriages from India
The railways authorities on Monday inked a contract with an India-based manufacture and supply company to procure 200 broad gauge carriages for the...
Bangladesh Railway suffers from lack of policy attention
THE development of Bangladesh Railway has not been a priority of successive governments, as evident in the inadequate resource allocation and deflected policy attention from it. A large majority of its rolling stock, including locomotives, passenger carriages, freight wagons, and relief cranes...
Govt presses on costly project for electric railway
Bangladesh Railway is pressing on with a costly plan for introducing electric traction system along Narayanganj-Dhaka-Chattogram and...
BR burdened with old聽rolling stock
The Bangladesh Railway is burdened with a large number of locomotives, carriages, wagons and relief cranes running long past their...