In the past, Indians wanting to go from Tripura to Kolkata had either to travel by air or make a convoluted 1, 750-km (1, 100 mile) overland journey via Guwahati, capital of Assam.
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The twice-daily service from Dhaka to Agartala, the capital of the Indian state of Tripura, enables Indians living in the inaccessible far east of the country to go overland to Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) or Delhi via Bangladesh.