Captain Nawshad Ataul Quaiyum, the Biman Bangladesh Airlines pilot who passed away today after suffering a heart attack mid-flight on Friday, was responsible for saving the lives of 149 passengers on December 22, 2016.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines pilot Captain Nawshad Ataul Quaiyum, who suffered a heart attack mid-air, died this morning at a hospital in India. He was 44.

Highlighting the potentials of Cox’s Bazar, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government wants to turn Bangladesh into a global aviation hub that will help accelerate the country’s current economic march forward.

Condition of Biman pilot Capt Nawshad Ataul Quaiyum, who suffered a heart attack while commanding a Muscat-Dhaka flight, remains the same. He is in coma in a hospital in Nagpur.

Capt Naushad Qayyum -- the Biman Bangladesh Airlines pilot who suffered a heart attack mid-air on Friday -- is clinically dead, Capt Shoaib Chowdhury, a senior pilot of Biman, has confirmed to The Daily Star.

Flight operations under the air bubble agreement between India and  Bangladesh are set to resume from September 3, four months after it was  suspended amid rising Covid-19 infections.

The pilot of the Muscat-Dhaka Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight Naushad Qayyum, who suffered a “massive” heart attack mid-air yesterday, was stated to be in a “coma” and on ventilation support at the Intensive Care Unit of Kingsway Hospital in Nagpur in the western Indian state of Maharashtra.

Three Bangladeshis, who had been stranded following Taliban's control of Afghanistan, today arrived in Dhaka.

Flight operations under the air bubble agreement between India and Bangladesh will resume from September 3, four months after it was suspended amid rising Covid-19 infections.

A Biman flight from Muscat to Dhaka had to make an emergency landing at an Indian airport yesterday after the pilot in command suffered a heart attack in the cockpit.

Stranded passengers of Biman Bangladesh Airlines have departed from Nagpur International Airport in Maharashtra, India for Dhaka.

Passengers of Biman Bangladesh Airlines -- who were stranded in India's Nagpur airport after an emergency landing -- finally reached Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at around 12:51am.

A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying an eight-member rescue team is leaving Dhaka for India’s Nagpur this evening to bring back 124 passengers, who remain stranded at Nagpur Airport following emergency landing of a Dhaka-bound Biman flight.

A Dhaka-bound flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, with around 122 passengers on board, made an emergency landing at an airport in India.

Fourteen Bangladeshis, including eight telecom engineers and three Brac officials, who have been stranded in Afghanistan, are making an effort to fly back home in a chartered flight today.

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday approved two more Covid-19 vaccines -- Sinovac and Sinopharm, Arab News said.

US-Bangla Airlines will resume daily flights on Dhaka-Muscat-Dhaka route from September 1 after more than three months.

Oman has lifted its travel ban on 18 countries, including Bangladesh, effective from 12 noon of September 1, four months after imposing the ban due to the rise in Covid-19 infections.

The Saudi government has decided that pilgrims who have received Sinopharm’s Covid-19 vaccine will not be allowed to perform Umrah.

A memorandum of understanding between Egyptair and ALO Dhaka Aviation Ltd was signed in Cairo on August 18 -- to start operating two flights per week between Dhaka and Cairo, starting from November 2021.