Rashidul Hasan

Remittance rebounded in Bangladesh in the outgoing financial year, extending some breathing space to an economy struggling to keep its head above water amid the lingering crisis at home and abroad. 

Biman Bangladesh Airlines will be spending about Tk 12.9 crores ($1.18 million) to send 100 officials to Saudi Arabia to “assist Bangladeshi hajis” despite having a ground handling services agent who is supposed to do everything for about two-thirds of that cost.

Biman has violated procurement rules to hire a vendor for its online ticket sales and reservation services, and this will lead to Biman losing over Tk 1,000 crore in 10 years, according to a recent audit report by the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of Bangladesh.

“Embezzlement by a travel agency owner” has made hajj uncertain for at least 538 people.

Rab Director General M Khurshid Hossain has said Jasmine’s “murder” in Naogaon has tarnished the image of the country, the government and the force.

Fresh rifts have surfaced between Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader and the party’s Chief Patron Raushan Ershad as they nominated two separate leaders to contest in the Dhaka-17 by-election.

With only two weeks remaining for sending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia, many private hajj agencies are yet to obtain visas for them.

Turkish Airlines used to fly to Dhaka twice a day but it has been operating one flight a day for a year since it cannot repatriate to Istanbul $24 million it earned here from ticket sales and by moving freight.

A parliamentary body has alleged that private milk supply companies supply low quality milk to the market.

At least 200 of the 218 officials the government is sending to Saudi Arabia to assist the Bangladeshi medical and technical team during hajj do not have any technical training or background in medicine.

Ahead of the Gazipur City Corporation polls, the main opposition in parliament Jatiya Party had said its mayoral candidate would secure good result in the election if it was held in free and fair manner.

A parliamentary body yesterday formed a three-member committee to investigate alleged corruption and irregularities of former additional chief engineer of Roads and Highways Department Tushar Kanti Saha.

A parliamentary body today formed a three-member committee to investigate alleged corruption and irregularities of former additional chief engineer of Roads and Highways Department Tushar Kanti Saha.

It all happened quietly. There were hardly any polling agents for Zaida Khatun. Even her supporters could barely be seen in the largest city corporation of the country. Even during the campaign, her posters were rarely seen.

Fariduzzaman, a flight operation inspector of Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB), had violated the rules and sat in the captain’s seat on flight BG 336 of Biman that departed from Jeddah for Dhaka on January 15.

The goods and pieces of machinery supplied to construct the third plant of Essential Drugs Company Limited at Gopalganj were not up to standard, the managing director and CEO of EDCL told a parliamentary body yesterday.

Among the six mayoral candidates in the Barishal City Corporation elections, Jatiya Party aspirant Iqbal Hossain Tapos tops among all considering his annual income while ruling Awami League candidate Abul Khair Abdullah tops in terms of possession of movable assets.

A series of bizarre collisions involving planes on the apron of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport have raised serious concerns about Biman’s competence.

The home ministry has prepared a list of Bangladeshi expatriates engaged in spreading “propaganda against the country”, and sent it to the Bangladeshi missions abroad for taking necessary steps in this regard.

Air Astra, the youngest commercial airline in Bangladesh, will start operating flights on the Dhaka-Saidpur-Dhaka route from today.