Dhaka January 30, 2026, 1:23 am
Abid Sultan, an experienced pilot, flied 5,000 hours in total and 1,700 hours with the crashed flight
The special flight of the airlines that left Dhaka for Nepal around 9:02am with 46 relatives on board landed at the airport around 10:40am
32 from Bangladesh, 33 from Nepal and one each from China and the Maldives, according to sources at the airlines
Sheikh Hasina, who arrived in Singapore on Sunday on a four-day official visit, was scheduled to return home on Wednesday
Sheikh Hasina told the Nepalese prime minister that she will send a team to assist Nepal immediately after opening of the Tribhuban Airport in Kathmandu
Sheikh Hasina invited the Singapore president and the prime minister to visit Bangladesh in their convenience this year while both of them accepted the invitation saying schedules of their visits would be fixed on the conveni
Bangladesh appreciated Chinese humanitarian assistance for the displaced people of Rakhine State and sought political support of China to end the protracted Rohingya crisis, said State Minister for Shahriar Alam
The government is working on relocating as many as 133,000 members of the Rohingya families by March 31
The government has a plan to preserve the oral history of the Liberation War of 1971 by recording wartime experience of the living freedom fighters
they prayed for eternal peace of the departed souls of the crash victims and conveyed deep sympathy to the bereaved family members
As many as 71 persons, including four crew members, were on-board the aircraft, of which 37 were Bangladeshis, 32 were Nepalis, one Chinese and one Maldivian nationals
Seven passengers were pulled out and rushed to the hospital while the fire-fighters are trying to rescue other remaining passengers
High Court (HC) finally granted a four-month bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir came up with the announcement at a press conference at the party’s Nayapaltan central office.
According to the Global Fire Power Index 2017, Myanmar is ranked the world's 31st powerful military while Bangladesh's position is 57th.
Nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have crossed the border since August, clearing forests and camping on hillsides already crowded with more than 300,000 refugees from previous waves of migration
Bangladesh and Singapore on Monday signed two Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) on cooperation in the areas of air services and private public partnership
Hasina on Monday urged the Singapore government to provide a decent work atmosphere for Bangladeshi workers as the South-East Asian country continues to be a favorite destination for them.
The Indian government is discussing the issue with Myanmar government," President's Press Secretary Joynal Abedin quoted Modi as saying
One-minute blackout on the night of March 25 in memory of the history's worst brutality carried out by the Pakistani Army on the "Black Night" of March 25, 1971
