Railway staff in Bangladesh, including drivers, assistant drivers, guards and ticket checkers, have regularly worked beyond scheduled hours due to a shortage of manpower. In return, they have traditionally received extra pay along with pension benefits calculated on those additional hours.

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Trains were canceled across Bangladesh on Tuesday as railway staff went on strike for higher pensions and other benefits, affecting tens of thousands of passengers and freight transport.

State-run railway system carries some 65 million passengers per year in the densely populated nation of 170 million people, it employs 25,000 people and operates a network of over 36,000 km

Train services were canceled across Bangladesh on Tuesday as railway staff went on strike for higher pensions and other benefits, affecting tens of thousands of passengers and freight transport. Saidur Rahman,

Train services across Bangladesh, including from the capital’s main Dhaka railway station, came to a halt on Tuesday morning as railway staff launched a nationwide strike, demanding the reinstatement of long-standing special allowances.

Train services across the country have been halted since early Tuesday due to a strike by railway running staff, leaving thousands of passengers stranded and in distress. At Dhaka's Kamalapur Railway Station,