Rashidul Hasan

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday in parliament said she directed the authorities concerned to reopen all schools and colleges soon and that they were taking measures in this regard.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to virtually inaugurate the ground breaking ceremony and unveil the foundation stone of the runway extension at Cox’s Bazar Airport today morning.

A parliamentary body yesterday strongly recommended that Essential Drugs, a government-owned company, take immediate measures to produce Covid-19 vaccines within six to nine months so that all citizens can be brought under vaccination as soon as possible.

Several thousand UAE-bound Bangladeshi expatriate workers are passing days in uncertainty over returning to the gulf country due to absence of rapid PCR test facilities of Covid-19 in Bangladesh airports.

The government has taken up a project to extend the runway of Cox’s Bazar airport by claiming land from the sea.

A parliamentary body yesterday recommended shutting down the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate in Hemayetpur because the estate does not have adequate facilities to treat all liquid waste generated by the tanners it houses.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen and Biman are at loggerheads over the confusion created over flight operations to and from India.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh and the two local airlines are yet to get the requisite approval from India to resume flights to the neighbouring country from today, leaving hundreds of passengers who bought tickets in a state of suspense.

Last year, Md Selim and Mahbuba Parvin gave interviews to different media outlets to express their anguish and dismay over the delay in implementing the verdict over the August 21, 2004 grenade attack.

People involved with tourism, hotel and motel businesses breathed a sigh of relief as all tourist spots and parks reopened yesterday, after almost five months, despite ongoing the Covid-19 pandemic.

Although the foreign minister recently said flights with India will resume today, Biman Bangladesh Airlines, US-Bangla and Novoair said they are yet to get any direction from Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) in this regard.

Many Bangladeshi migrants in Malaysia are now facing uncertainty over their return home as confusion has arisen over a circular of the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh.

Like other times, Anisur Rahman, a London-bound passenger, was planning to purchase tickets from Biman Bangladesh Airline’s website using his phone.

A parliamentary body yesterday strongly opposed the World Bank’s reform proposals, including the inclusion of Rohingya refugees in the host country.

On the occasion of DU’s birth centenary, noted academic Prof SMA Faiz, who served as the 26th vice-chancellor (VC) of Dhaka University (DU) from September 2002 till January 2009, recently talked with The Daily Star, discussing different issues including decline of the university’s position in various international rankings, teacher and student politics, teachers’ appointment, and role of the administration.

Control of the Jamia Arabia Madrasa, one of the largest Qawmi madrasas in the country, was yesterday handed over to the new Waqf committee from the hands of former Hefajat-e-Islam leader Mamunul Haque and his brother Mahfuzul Haque.

Import ban, so what? There are ways to sneak those in, through the country’s main airport even.

United Airways has expressed concern over the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh’s latest initiative to sell eight aircraft of the private air operator which remained abandoned at the Dhaka Airport since 2016.

Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique, a noted educationist, has served as the 27th vice chancellor of Dhaka University from 2009 till 2017.

Biman is getting an unusually high number of ticket cancellations and the national flag carriers claims it was due to pilots’ threat of not operating additional flights.