Rail link between West Bengal and Bangladesh resumes after 55 yrs
Rail services between West Bengal's Haldibari and Bangladesh's Chilahati resumed in the Indian state's Cooch Behar district after a gap of 55 years. "Freight trains are running initially, later passenger trains will also run," a railway official told ANI. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina jointly inaugurated the rail-link virtually.