Saudi Arabian authorities have released new pictures that offer a never-before-seen close-up view of the Black Stone in the Kaaba.

Saudi Arabia will permit citizens immunised against Covid-19 to travel abroad from May 17, the interior ministry said Sunday, more than a year after Saudis were barred from external trips.

US-Bangla Airlines will resume its regular international flight on the Dhaka-Kuala Lumpur route from May 4.

After a 17-day break, international flights to and from Dhaka resumed today following government guidelines and instructions.

Australian residents and citizens who have been in India within 14 days of the date they plan to return home will be banned from entering Australia as of Monday and those who disobey will face fines and jail, government officials said.

The religious affairs ministry has come to know that a fraudulent group is taking money from people to include them as hajj aspirants this year.

Air Crash Investigation(s), a Canadian documentary television series produced by Cineflix that recounts air crashes and other mainly flight-related disasters and crises, yesterday released their latest episode chronicling the March 12, 2018 US-Bangla Airlines Flight 211 crash in Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Hotel quarantine is mandatory for people arriving in Qatar from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Philippines, Gulf Times reports quoting the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) in Qatar.

More than 300 Bangladeshis are stuck in India’s Petrapole land port today as Bangladesh government yesterday closed the border with India due to a huge surge in Covid-19 cases in the neighbouring country.

Airfares soared and demand for private jets boomed Friday as Indians who could afford it scrambled to escape a Covid surge before flights to the United Arab Emirates shut down.

Bangladeshi citizens stuck in different cities in India due to the ongoing suspension of flights with the neighbouring country will be able to return through land ports.

Fearing that visas of many Bangladeshi migrant workers might expire due to suspension of regular international flights since April 14, the government on Thursday decided to allow respective airlines to operate flights to Kuwait and Bahrain

A total of around 24,600 migrant workers have left the country for their respective workplaces in five countries, including Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, and UAE, in the last five days since April 17 via special flights.

The US State Department has added at least 116 countries this week to its “Level Four: Do Not Travel” advisory list, putting the UK, Canada, France, Israel, Mexico, Germany and others on the list, citing a “very high level of Covid-19.”

Oman has decided to impose a ban on passengers coming from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan in the wake of rising coronavirus cases.

Number of passengers on domestic routes was low today as regular flight operations -- after a recess of 16 days due to restrictions imposed to curb Covid-19 transmission -- resumed.

Due to the urgency of Bangladeshi passengers, CAAB today decided to allow flights of Biman, US-Bangla, China Eastern, and China Southern airlines to operate passenger flights between Dhaka and Chinese destinations under special considerations.

Flight operations on all seven domestic routes in Bangladesh will resume from tomorrow on a limited scale, following a recess of 16 days.

US-Bangla Airlines is going to start flight operation on Dhaka-Guangzhou route from April 24 with special permission from Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh.

The US State Department said on Monday it will boost its "Do Not Travel" guidance to about 80 percent of countries worldwide, citing "unprecedented risk to travelers" from the Covid-19 pandemic.