US-Bangla Airlines has suspended its Dhaka-Riyadh-Dhaka flights through Oct. 21 after repeated closures of King Khalid International Airport disrupted operations, the carrier said Monday. The suspension covers flights BS381 and BS382 between Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia. The airline said passengers would be notified when revised schedules were finalized. Travelers booked on affected flights were advised […]
Bangladesh and the European Union (EU) agreed Monday to cooperate against irregular migration and human trafficking while expanding legal employment channels for skilled Bangladeshi workers. The agreement followed a Dhaka meeting between expatriates’ welfare and overseas employment minister Ariful Haque Choudhury and European commissioner for internal affairs and migration Magnus Brunner. Choudhury said Bangladesh had […]
Bangladesh has signed a $335.78 million concessional loan agreement with the Export-Import Bank of China to expand and modernize Mongla Port, according to the Economic Relations Division (ERD). The agreement was signed Oct. 10 by ERD joint secretary Alia Meher and China Exim Bank assistant general manager Fengjun Tian. Financing will support two container terminals […]
A dialysis contract expiring Nov. 29 could disrupt treatment for 276 patients at Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) in Bangladesh, with no confirmed interim plan, The Business Standard reported Monday. Hospital director Mohammad Taslim Uddin said the government was procuring replacement machines, but a new facility might not operate until February or March 2027. Many […]
Patients in Bangladesh are struggling to find intravenous (IV) saline as manufacturers cut production, citing rising costs and retail prices unchanged since 2015, The Business Standard reported Monday. Producers said a bag costs around Tk120 (approximately $0.97) to make but has a regulated retail price of Tk87 (approximately $0.71). A price-revision proposal has been pending […]
Bangladesh’s Election Commission (EC) has approved a five-phase timetable for elections to about 4,500 union councils, with voting beginning Jan. 21, 2027. The decision was made Monday at a commission meeting chaired by chief election commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin, The Financial Express reported, citing bdnews24.com. Election commissioner Abul Fazal Md Sanaullah announced the plan at […]
Bangladesh’s government has pledged support for a Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET) project seeking to turn human waste and agricultural residue into fuel oil. Lead researcher Md Khalekuzzaman told prime minister Tarique Rahman that nearly 10 years of work using hydrothermal liquefaction had produced biocrude at 50% to 55% conversion efficiency in laboratory […]
Bangladesh’s consumer protection agency fined 87 businesses Tk771,500 (approximately $6,264) during nationwide inspections of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders and edible oil markets Sunday. The Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) deployed 46 teams across Dhaka and 31 districts. Inspectors checked supplies, compliance with government-set prices, price-list displays, weights, expiration dates, receipts, and signs […]
Bangladesh Bank has proposed three mechanisms to make remittances from the Maldives safer, cheaper, and easier for more than 100,000 Bangladeshi workers there. In an Oct. 8 letter to Maldives Monetary Authority governor Ahmed Munawar, Bangladesh Bank governor Md Mostaqur Rahman proposed accepting Maldivian rufiyaa through the Asian Clearing Union (ACU), enabling travel payments in […]
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) said it stopped two alleged attempts by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) to push 10 people across the western border Sunday. BGB’s 47 Kushtia Battalion said six unidentified people, including two men and four women, were brought toward Bangladesh through the Gangni border in Meherpur. BSF personnel took them back behind […]
