UNB, Dhaka
An ornate train, carrying a 35-member Bangladesh official delegation, left here Sunday morning on a long journey cross the border in a trial run for restoring Dhaka-Kolkata rail route.
Railway officials said the train was flagged off from Dhaka Cantonment Station at about 7:00 am in a ceremonial departure. Members of the official delegation, led by Additional Secretary for Communications ATKM Ismail, were the only passengers on board. Meanwhile, the train, bedecked with flowers and festoons, was welcomed at Darshana station in the southwestern frontier-district Chuadanga about 12:45pm before it whistled past the border into India. [Read more]