India provides key railway infrastructure to Bangladesh

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India handed over 20 diesel Broad Gauge (BG) locomotives to Bangladesh on Tuesday. An official statement said these locomotives were handed over under grant assistance from the centre.

“This fulfils an important commitment made during the visit of Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina to India, in October, 2019," an official statement said, adding that these locomotives have been modified by the Indian side while keeping in mind the requirements of Bangladesh Railway.

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These locomotives will help handle the increasing volume of passenger and freight train operations in Bangladesh. Ten similar broad gauge diesel locomotives were handed over to Bangladesh on grant basis in July 2020.

Three pairs of passenger trains are presently plying between India and Bangladesh, namely, Kolkata-Dhaka Maitree Express, Kolkata-Khulna Bandhan Express, and New Jalpaiguri- Dhaka Mitali Express.

The statement said that trade between both the countries via rail have seen consistent growth with interchange of close to 100 cargo trains per month and approximately 2.66 million tonnes (MT) cargo was sent to Bangladesh in the last financial year.

Export commodities from India to Bangladesh include Stone, Foodgrains, China Clay, Gypsum, Maize, Onion, and other essential items.

India hands over 20 broad gauge locomotives to Bangladesh

As part of further strengthening bilateral ties, India today (May 23) virtually handed over 20 Broad Gauge (BG) diesel locomotives to Bangladesh. Indian Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw virtually joined the handing over ceremony from Rail Bhaban in New Delhi this afternoon while his Bangladeshi c

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“This fulfils an important commitment made during the visit of Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina to India, in October, 2019," an official statement said, adding that these locomotives have been modified by the Indian side while keeping in mind the requirements of Bangladesh Railway.

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Easy to transfer and retrieve RAW assets to and from Bangladesh.

 

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@Bilal9 must be burning fire at the nose.

 

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I hope India hasn't exported its appalling safety culture to Bangladesh as well.

India train crash: More than 200 dead after Odisha incident​

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Footage showed rescuers trying to free victims from the wreckage

At least 207 people are now known to have been killed and 900 injured in a multiple train collision in India's eastern Odisha state, officials say.

More than 200 ambulances were sent to the scene in Balasore district, says Odisha's chief secretary Pradeep Jena.
One passenger train is thought to have derailed before being struck by another on the adjacent track late on Friday.
It is India's worst train crash this century. Officials say the death toll is expected to rise further.

Indian Railways said the two services involved were the Coromandel Express and the Howrah Superfast Express.
Sudhanshu Sarangi, the director general of the fire department in Odisha, said that 207 bodies had been recovered so far.
Mr Jena said earlier that more than 100 additional doctors had been mobilised.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was distressed by the incident and his thoughts were with the bereaved families.
"Rescue ops are under way at the site of the mishap and all possible assistance is being given to those affected," he tweeted.
Meanwhile, Home Minister Amit Shah labelled the incident "deeply agonising".

One male survivor said that "10 to 15 people fell on me when the accident happened and everything went haywire. I was at the bottom of the pile.

"I got hurt in my hand and also the back of my neck. When I came out of the train bogie, I saw someone had lost their hand, someone had lost their leg, while someone's face was distorted," the survivor told India's ANI news agency.
It is believed that several carriages from the Shalimar-Chennai Coromandel Express derailed at about 19:00 local time (13:30 GMT), with some of them ending up on the opposite track.

Another train - the Howrah Superfast Express travelling from Yesvantpur to Howrah - is then thought to have hit the overturned carriages.

Indian officials said that a goods train - which was stationary at the site - was also involved in the incident. They provided no further details.

Some surviving passengers were seen rushing in to help rescue those trapped in the wreckage. Local bus companies were also helping to transport wounded passengers.

India has one of the largest train networks in the world and accidents are common, despite successive governments investing hundreds of millions of dollars to improve the infrastructure, says BBC South Asia regional editor Anbarasan Ethirajan.

India's worst train disaster was in 1981, when an overcrowded passenger train was blown off the tracks and into a river during a cyclone in Bihar state, killing at least 800 people.