State minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism M Mahbub Ali today said that a probe will be launched to find out how three cabin crews and head of security of Biman got permission to get on board the November 16 VVIP flight without any security clearance.

The Bangladesh high commission in Maldives today confirmed the identities of the two Bangladeshis who were burned to death in a devastating fire in Maldives yesterday.

At least 10 people were killed including a Bangladeshi national and several others were injured Thursday (November 10, 2022) when a fire swept through cramped lodgings of foreign workers in the Maldives capital Male, the fire service said.

Four Bangladeshi origin candidates have been elected in the US midterm elections from different states.

European Commissioner Ylva Johansson is coming to Bangladesh on a two-day visit today to advance legal migration from Bangladesh -- one of the four countries included in the European Union’s Talent Partnership.

Dr Shamaruh Mirza, daughter of BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, has been honoured with Australia's most prestigious – “Australian of the Year” -- award.

Expatriate Bangladeshi researcher Dr Laila Nahar has been awarded gold medal for creating healthy Mushroom Crackers using green technology in Malaysia.

The exchange rate of dollar needs to be freed to make the garment business profitable at this crisis time, said a top leader of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) today.

"Complacency has brought us to the current forex reserve situation,” said Salehuddin Ahmed, former governor of the Bangladesh Bank.

The government should come up with a clear strategy to stop fast depletion of the foreign currency reserves in a bid to save the country from a major crisis, said a noted economist today.

The external factors are not only responsible for Bangladesh’s present economic volatility, rather there are some issues which remained unattended for a long time such as low revenue collection, absence of quality public expenditure and the non-performing loans, said noted economist Debapriya Bhattacharya today.

Banks in Bangladesh today decided to withdraw service charge on remittances sent home by expatriate Bangladeshis with a view to gearing up the inflow.

Aviation Operators Association of Bangladesh (AOAB) today called upon the government to meet its three-point demand for the survival of the country's ailing airline industry.

A three-day long “Bangladesh Book Fair and Banga Sanskriti Festival” has begun in the UAE with an aim to generate interest among expatriate Bangladeshis living in reading in the UAE and produce quality writers.

Lalon Festival was held for the first time in New York, USA, on October 30, 2022. Bangladeshi expatriates flocked to enjoy the colorful festival, organised by the United States Lalon Parishad.

Two Bangladeshi students have won the first international student union election at Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, one of China's leading educational institutions.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has taken various measures including introducing dynamic pricing policy and achieving on time performance to prevent irregularities and losses, State Minister for Civil Aviation M Mahbub Ali told parliament today (November 2, 2022).

Bangladesh and Uzbekistan will introduce code sharing as part of greater goal of starting direct flight between Dhaka and Tashkent.

Do we know which were the top remittance receiving banks in Bangladesh for the month?

Remittance declined further in October, intensifying the pressure on the government to manage its macroeconomy amid plummeting foreign exchange reserves.