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.

Two physically challenged readymade garment workers are killed as a train hit them in Gazipur.

Rail communication between Khulna and Jessore is suspended as a locomotive derailed at Singia Railway Station in Jessore this afternoon.