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US-Bangla Airlines, one of the largest private airlines in Bangladesh, is introducing an extra flight on Dhaka-Kuala Lumpur route from September 1. “A total of three flights will operate on the route from September 1,” the company said in a statement. At present, their flights are leaving for Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 8pm on Thursdays and Sundays and is ...

A Turkish drilling ship has discovered a big natural gas reserve in the Black Sea. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters that the drilling ship Fatih, which has been operating in the area since July, had found 320bn cu m (11.3 tr cu ft) of gas. He said it was Turkey’s biggest natural gas find to date. If Turkey can ...

The US-Bangla airlines, the country’s largest private carrier, will resume its Dhaka-Doha flight from August 31 after five months of suspension due to contain the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic. The airline will initially operate two flights in a week, every Monday and Friday, to Doha, capital of the Qatar, one of the most popular destinations for Bangladesh migrant workers, a ...

GMail users woke up to a global outage today. If you opened GMail and could not send mails and attachments smoothly, then you are not the only one. GMail users from across the world have not been able to send e-mails. The email service is currently not working globally. Users are complaining that they are unable to send across emails ...

The UK still believes it can agree a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU next month, according to Downing Street. The PM’s spokesman said UK negotiators would “continue to plug the gaps” when talks enter their seventh round in Brussels on Wednesday. The two sides remain divided over competition rules, fishing rights and how a deal would be enforced. The ...

NOVOAIR is offering attractive holiday package for Cox’s Bazar starting from Tk 1,777. Twin share basis two nights three days package Starts from Tk 1,777 per month per person on EMI, which includes air fare and hotel, Hotel Transfer in Cox’s Bazar, breakfast and many more, said a press release of NOVOAIR. Apart from Dhaka, this package can be avail ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $50 million loan to fund public-private partnership (PPP) infrastructure projects in Bangladesh. The ADB assistance will help implement PPP infrastructure subprojects developed by government agencies. The financial intermediary loan will strengthen the capacity of Bangladesh Infrastructure Finance Fund Limited (BIFFL), which has been established by the government to provide long-term local-currency debt ...

East Turkistan National Awakening Movement has urged the US Trade Representative to ends its trade deal with China due to latter’s engagement in “genocide, organ harvesting and using slave labour of Uyghurs”. “The US trade rep must end its trade deal with China. America shouldn’t engage in trade with CCP regime that is engaging in genocide, organ harvesting, using slave ...

A mobile court run by Dhaka Metropolitan Police has fined an online shop Tk 2,50,000 for not delivering products in line with the orders. The office of the online shop in Kalabagan was raided following allegation of not supplying products after receiving payment, selling unapproved and expired cosmetics and running a business on invalid licence. Some Mahin Islam Tonny operates ...

Iran has decided to pre-sell the country’s oil, the main source of the Islamic Republic’s income, to its citizens by offering oil bonds and the government has said it intends to put the oil on the stock market in the framework of an “economic breakthrough”. The chief of staff of the president of Iran Mahmoud Vaezi said in a rare ...