Bangladesh crisis hits bus services with India

Agartala:The month-long political crisis in Bangladesh has hit bus services between the two countries and bilateral trade, officials said here on Saturday.
“The Dhaka-Agartala bus service has been completely stopped since last week. The Dhaka-Kolkata bus services were also become irregular due to the political turmoil in Bangladesh,” a Tripura Road Transport Corpo-ration (TRTC) official said.
He said: “We do not know when the bus services would be normalise. Due to the political violence in Bangladesh the operators are reluctant to run the bus services between the two countries.”
The Tripura govern-ment-owned TRTC and the Bangladesh government run Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) have been operating the Agartala-Dhaka bus service.The TRTC had stopped its bus service for the past one month while the BRTC stopped the service last week.(IANS)