Mango Special Train Losses Mount, Traders Unhappy With Service
The Mango Special Train has set off again carrying a burden of losses, having spent several times what it earned over the past three years.
The Mango Special Train has set off again carrying a burden of losses, having spent several times what it earned over the past three years.
Supreme Court lawyer Barrister Syed Sayedul Haque Suman drew crowds to a friendly football match in Naogaon, where he handed guava saplings to the home players.
Mango bookings on the Mango Special Train fell on its second day, Friday 9 June, a day after it was launched to carry mangoes cheaply from Chapainawabganj.
The Mango Special Train set off for Dhaka from Rohanpur in Chapainawabganj on 8 June carrying 4,758 kg of mangoes.
Rangpur's traditional Haribhanga mango will reach markets ten days early, with picking set to begin on Saturday, 10 June, instead of 20 June.
Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan will inaugurate the Mango Special Train at Chapainawabganj railway station at 11am on Thursday, 8 June.
The launch of the Mango Special Train has been moved to 8 June because Railway Minister Nurul Islam Sujan wants to inaugurate it himself.
PRAN has started collecting mangoes from Rajshahi, Chapainawabganj and other districts for pulping at its factories in Rajshahi and Natore.
A woman died in Kalai, Joypurhat, when a branch broke and fell on her as she gathered mangoes during a storm.
A special train to carry mangoes from Chapainawabganj and Rajshahi to Dhaka will be inaugurated at Chapainawabganj railway station on Wednesday, 7 June.
A mosque committee in Dubrajpur, Birbhum, auctioned one Miyazaki mango from its tree for 10,600 rupees to fund work on the mosque.
Green mangoes can be boiled, soaked in sugar and sun-dried into a candy that keeps all year.
A 13-year-old boy died after falling from a tree he had climbed to pick mangoes in Companiganj, Noakhali.