Mitali Express to begin operations on Dhaka-Jalpaiguri route from 1 June
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The operations of Mitali Express, the passenger train service between Dhaka and Jalpaiguri, will start from Wednesday (1 June) – more than a year after the service was formally launched by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi.
The flagging off ceremony of Mitali Express will be held Wednesday morning at the Indian Railways Headquarters in New Delhi by Railway Minister Nurul Islam Sujan and Indian Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav.
The train will run, from New Jalpaiguri in India to Dhaka Cantonment Station in Bangladesh, on the Haldibari (India) - Chilahati (Bangladesh) route. The operating time is expected to be 9 hours 55 minutes.
