The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the government of Bangladesh today signed a loan agreement for $400 million to build a dual-gauge railway connecting Chattogram and Cox's Bazar to promote trade, investment and tourism in Bangladesh. Sharifa Khan, Secretary, Economic Relations Division (ERD) and JiangboNing, ADB Deputy Country Director for Bangladesh
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India’s extensive railways often conduit for child trafficking
Deeepti Rani (13) lives with her mother in a dilapidated dwelling near a railway track in India’s southern state of Karnataka. The mother-daughter duo sells paperbacks on trains for a living. Four months ago, a man in his mid-fifties visited them. Masquerading as a businessman hailing from India’s capital, Delhi, he