TBM Staff - Mumbai Indian Railways on Monday suspended all train operations to Bangladesh amid the unrest in the neighbouring country.
Sheikh Hasina has resigned as the Bangladesh Prime Minister and fled the country amid escalating student-led protests.
The affected trains include the Kolkata-Dhaka-Kolkata Maitree Express (13109/13110), Kolkata-Dhaka-Kolkata Maitree Express (13107/13108), Kolkata-Khulna-Kolkata Bandhan Express, and Dhaka-New Jalpaiguri-Dhaka Mitali Express, which has been suspended since June 21.
In an address to the nation on Monday, Bangladesh Army Chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman announced that Sheikh Hasina has resigned as the Prime Minister and that an interim government will be formed soon.
The student-led non-cooperation movement put immense pressure on the government led by Prime Minister Hasina over the past many weeks.
The students had been protesting against a 30 per cent reservation in government jobs for relatives of freedom fighters who wrested independence for Bangladesh from Pakistan in a bloody civil war in 1971 in which, according to Dhaka officials, three million people were killed in the genocide by Pakistani troops and their supporters. (Source: ANI)
