The government will sign a deal with a British security company by March 21 to ensure security screening at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, the civil aviation minister says.

The UK has banned air cargo directly from Dhaka until further notice as Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport failed to meet some international security requirements.

After Dhaka and Chittagong, dog squads are deployed at Osmani International Airport in Sylhet to tighten the security measures.

Twelve more Bangladeshi trafficking victims, who were rescued from the Andaman Sea last May, have returned home from Kuala Lumpur.

Airport police detain a man along with four bars of gold, weighing a kilogram each, at Dhaka’s Hajrat Shahjalal International Airport.