Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home on Sunday evening wrapping up her four-day official visit to Germany where she attended the Munich Security Conference (MSC) and held bilateral talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. A flight of Etihad Airways carrying…
Dhaka, Feb 18 – Indian High Commission here on Saturday organised a special visa camp for family members of serving and retired Armed Forces personnel at Sena Malancha of Dhaka Cantonment.
-By Raquib Siddiqi Bangladesh tourism is now at the threshold of a new era. The country is poised to enter global ocean cruise map, ushering the new era in tourism industry.
She’s likely to raise Rohingya issue with Merkel Dhaka, Feb 16 – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left here for Germany on Thursday night on a four-day official visit to attend the Munich Security Conference (MSC) and hold bilateral talks with…
The Cabinet on Monday approved the draft of ‘The Civil Aviation Bill, 2017’ incorporating a provision for capital punishment or life term and a fine of maximum Tk five crore for obstructing any aircraft operation. The approval was given at…
An appeals court has questioned whether President Donald Trump’s travel ban discriminates against Muslims. The executive order temporarily banned entry for all refugees and visitors from seven mainly Muslim countries, until it was halted last week.
Geneva, 2 Feb (Kanaga Raja) – The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who took office in January, in a reference to US President Donald Trump’s Executive Order that suspends the entire US refugee program as well as bars nationals from seven…
US President Donald Trump said the Justice Department will win an appeal filed late Saturday of a judge’s order lifting a travel ban he had imposed on citizens of seven mainly Muslim countries. “We’ll win. For the safety of the…
Masudul Hoque & Abdur Rahman Jahangir, UNB Staff Writers Dhaka, Feb 4 – Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) has worked out a plan to construct a 220-km elevated expressway with a multimodal transport corridor over the existing Dhaka-Chittagong highway to boost…
The British government came under increasing pressure on Monday to cancel US President Donald Trump’s future state visit with the Queen following mounting outrage over his travel ban on mainly Muslim countries. The government has also been facing growing criticism…
Railways Minister M Mazibul Haque today said the government would restore all the shutdown railway routes with India. “Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has already instructed the Railways Ministry to restore the closed down railway routes with India,” the minister told…
New York, Jan 29 (AP/UNB)— New York City’s Kennedy airport became a scene of anguish and desperation Saturday for the families of people detained after arriving in the U.S. from nations subject to President Donald Trump’s travel ban.
Dhaka – Amari Dhaka has recently announced the launch of its Thai food festival at its signature Asian restaurant, Amaya Food Gallery. The festival starts from 26th January, 2017, and will continue till the 5 th February, 2017. Standard Chartered…
Dhaka – The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Wednesday placed two Biman Bangladesh Airlines officials on a five-day remand afresh in the case filed in connection with the emergency landing of the VVIP place carrying Prime Minister…
Bishkek, Jan 16 (AP/UNB) — The Health Ministry in Kyrgyzstan says a cargo plane has crashed in a residential area just outside the Central Asian country’s main airport, killing 32 people.
Dhaka, Jan 11 – Biman Bangladesh Airlines has won prestigious ‘Foreign Airline of the year-2015’ award of Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), Malaysia for the 2nd consecutive year.
Once Samuel L. Jackson appeared in the Mideast hotspot of Dubai, it really was only a matter of time before the snake on a plane would turn up too.Dubai-based airline Emirates said on Monday that one of its flights from…
A new book celebrates amazing urban spaces in the sky. Fiona Macdonald picks out ten projects that have helped transform cities across the globe, BBC has reported. By Fiona Macdonald
Dhaka – A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed two more suspended staff of Biman Bangladesh Airlines on a seven-day remand each in the case filed over emergency landing of a VVIP plane carrying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to Turkmenistan.
Indian High Commission in Dhaka will allow all Bangladesh travellers with confirmed air, train or bus tickets to submit their tourist visa applications without e-token or prior appointment dates from January 1.The initiative has been taken as part of the…
Russia (AP/UNB) — Investigators recovered the flight-data recorder from a crashed Russian military plane Tuesday and began reviewing its contents to learn why the jet went down moments after takeoff, killing all 92 people aboard, including members of a famous…
Dhaka – India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) has questioned AirAsia India’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in Mumbai in connection with an alleged forex violation case. ED is probing ousted Tata Group Chairman Cyrus Mistry’s allegation that fraudulent transactions of Rs 22…
Fragments of a plane were dragged out of the Black Sea on Monday amid a massive search operation as Russian officials declared that their investigation into the crash would focus on technical faults or pilot errors — not terrorism.On shore,…
After hours of tense negotiations, two Libyans who hijacked a plane from Libya to Malta and threatened to blow it up surrendered peacefully Friday, allowing 118 passengers and crew to leave the plane before walking out themselves with the last…
Khulna: The half-completed Khulna Modern Railway Station is going to be inaugurated with the first Moitree train trip on the newly built Khulna-Kolkata route on the first day of the new year, according to project officials. To this effect, they…
A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines made an emergency landing at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Thursday morning following a technical glitch. The Boeing 737 aircraft was scheduled to land in Chittagong, but made the emergency landing at the airport…
Dhaka –A court here on Thursday placed seven officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines on a seven-day remand each in a case filed over the technical glitch in a VVIP flight carrying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Snigdha Rani…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday urged the British government to lift the ban on all direct cargo flights from Dhaka to London.The Prime Minister made the call when UK Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy for Bangladesh Rushanara Ali, MP met…
Dhaka – A case was filed against nine officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines on Tuesday night in connection with the technical glitch in a flight carrying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina last month.
By Noah Kulwin Google was the first major tech company to get into self-driving vehicles, revealing its initial prototype in the spring of 2014. Now, two and a half years later, the company is ready turn its research into a…