The list of 84 trains includes major mail-express trains like Konark Express, Vidarbha Express, Amritsar Express, Chennai Express, Saket Express and Kochuveli Superfast Express.

Indian Railways: Facing resentment over overcrowded ordinary coaches, the Central Railway has decided to extend 84 mail/express trains with four ordinary coaches each to ease the extra crowding of passengers. Central Railway runs about 180 long-distance trains daily from various cities to different places across the country, an official said on Wednesday.

The revised design of these 84 trains will include 4 general class coaches and one general class, luggage cum guard brake van each, a CR release said. The list of 84 trains includes major mail-express trains like Konark Express, Vidarbha Express, Amritsar Express, Chennai Express, Saket Express and Kochuveli Superfast Express.

Indian Railways has stopped all train services to Bangladesh

Indian Railways on Monday suspended all train services to Bangladesh in the wake of unrest in the neighboring country. Sheikh Hasina has resigned as Prime Minister of Bangladesh and fled the country amid growing student-led protests.

The affected trains include Kolkata-Dhaka-Kolkata Maitri Express (13109/13110), Kolkata-Dhaka-Kolkata Maitri Express (13107/13108), Kolkata-Khulna-Kolkata Bandhan Express and Dhaka-New Jalpaiguri-Dhaka Mithali Express. It has been suspended from June 21.

Addressing the nation on Monday, Bangladesh Army Chief General Waqar-uz-Zaman announced that Sheikh Hasina had resigned as prime minister and that an interim government would soon be formed. He also appealed to the citizens to have faith in the Bangladesh Army and assured them that the defense forces would ensure peace in the times to come.

General Waqer-uz-Zaman also mentioned that he will meet President Mohammad Shahabuddin soon. The developments came after more than 100 were killed and more than 1,000 injured in violent clashes between police and protesters on Sunday.

“With yesterday's count, the death toll in anti-government protests has surpassed 300 in just three weeks, making it the bloodiest period in Bangladesh's civil movement history,” reported The Daily Star, the country's leading daily.

The student-led non-cooperation movement had put enormous pressure on Prime Minister Hasina's government for the past several weeks. The students were protesting against a 30 percent reservation in government jobs for relatives of freedom fighters who won Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan in a bloody 1971 civil war that, according to Dhaka authorities, killed 3 million people. Pakistan army and their supporters.

After the Supreme Court lowered the reservation to 5 percent, student leaders called off protests, but protests flared up again as students said the government ignored their calls for the release of all their leaders, with Prime Minister Hasina's resignation as their primary demand. .

(with input from agencies)