International

IIE Digital Desk: About 30 students and hundreds of Indian nationals had returned to India conficted ripped Bangladesh used the land ports between West Bengal and the neighbouring countries in the past 24 hours. The students were mostly from the Rangpur Medical College, crossed from the Changrabangdha land port and Fulbari land port in North Bengal and along with students from India, Bhutan, Nepal, and other South Asian countries  in India. A number of Indian nationals had also entered India of using the two landports in North Bengal.

Several people and students from West Bengal were still landed in Bangladesh, and the families were unable reached out to them because of poor network conditions in the neighbouring country. Train services between Dhaka and Kolkata had suspended on Friday. The Maitree Express, which was scheduled to depart from Dhaka towards Kolkata on Friday, and from Kolkata towards Dhaka on Saturday, was cancelled by Eastern Railways. The Kolkata-Khulna Bandhan Express, scheduled for July 22, had also been cancelled.

On Saturday the movement of goods along the Petropole Benapole land border in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas had also came to a ceased . Trade was suspended in accordance with the instructions of the Land Ports Authority of India after the last fleet of trucks had left for Bangladesh on Saturday morning. The International Check Post Petropole Benapole is the largest land port in Asia. A few people had crossed to the Indian side after showing valid documents.