Ezaz Mahmud

Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia have agreed to form a joint task force to enhance energy cooperation between the two countries.

A Bangladeshi man has been arrested in the Italian port city of Napoli (Naples) on charges of attempting to murder a policewoman after raping her.

“If any doctor was on board the flight or if I were a doctor, the early demise of Capt Nawshad Ataul Quaiyum could have been prevented,” said Bangladeshi expatriate Abdul Karim, who was on Biman’s Muscat-Dhaka flight that had to make an emergency landing in India’s Nagpur on August 28 after its pilot in command Capt Nawshad suffered a heart attack.

Five Bangladeshi migrants were rescued after a boat sank in the Caribbean Sea near Puerto Escondido of Colombia.

Five Bangladeshi migrants were rescued from the Caribbean Sea near Puerto Escondido of Colombia after the boat carrying them capsized. At least five more Bangladeshis remain missing.

At least 13 Bangladeshi migrants have been missing since a boat capsized with them off the coast of Tunisia almost a month ago.

The boat, which capsized in the Mediterranean Sea with 90 migrants including 81 Bangladeshis, was caught in a storm and sank after travelling for 16 hours from Libya’s Tripoli to Europe, said victims rescued off the Tunisian coast.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh’s (CAAB) latest decision to put Oman as one of 12 “high risk” countries has left hundreds of expatriates in the Gulf country waiting to come home on Eid vacation in trouble.