President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Friday left Dhaka for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) on a 10-day visit to perform the holy Hajj as the Royal guest of the Saudi government. A VVIP aircraft of Biman Bangladesh Airlines (Flight No: BG 331), carrying the President along with his spouse Dr Rebecca Sultana and entourage members left the Hazrat Shahjalal (R) ...

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has successfully completed the pre-Hajj flights for Bangladeshi Hajj pilgrims this year (2023). The last pre-Hajj flight BG 335 left Dhaka for Jeddah with 262 Bangladeshi pilgrims around 7:15pm on Thursday (June 22,2023), said Tahera Khandaker, general manager (public relations) of Biman Bangladesh Airlines. A total of 61,151 pilgrims have safely reached Saudi Arabia this year by ...

European Union officials warned Thursday there is a growing risk of mosquito-borne viral diseases such as dengue and chikungunya in Europe due to climate change. The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control said that because Europe is experiencing a warming trend, with heat waves and flooding becoming more frequent and severe, and summers getting longer and warmer, the conditions ...

The BRICS Games are expected to be held in the Russian city of Kazan in June 2024, Russia’s Sports Ministry announced on Thursday. Earlier in the day, Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin took part in a meeting of sports ministers from BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) in South Africa. “The role of BRICS in contributing to ...

BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Friday alleged that the Hindus, the largest religious minority in Bangladesh, are gradually leaving the country for lack of security. “People of all classes and professions, regardless of religion and caste, came together in 1971 to fight for the independence of the country holding a spirit that persecution, exploitation and discrimination against ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said neither the country’s people nor the international community support the current Awami League regime. Speaking at a road march programme in the capital, he also said it is now clear that no fair and neutral election was possible in the past or will be possible in the future under Sheikh ...

A “major construction” project at Brazilian football star Neymar’s mansion in Rio de Janeiro state was halted on Thursday for “environmental infractions,” which could result in a fine of some $1 million, authorities said. The project was underway “without environmental authorization” on the Paris Saint-Germain and Brazil national team player’s luxury property in Mangaratiba, some 130 kilometers (80 miles) from ...

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a convict, who was sentenced to death for killing a rickshaw puller in 2015, from Sylhet after 8 years. The arrestee was Md Shafikul Islam, 26. RAB-3 senior assistant police super Farzana Haque said on September 10, 2015, the victim Shamim was returning home and the convict Shafikul and his associates obstructed his way. They ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday paid glowing tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman marking the 74th founding anniversary of the ruling Awami League (AL). She paid homage to Bangabandhu by placing a wreath at the portrait of the Father of the Nation at Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi-32 in the morning. After laying the wreath, ...

A deep-sea submersible carrying five people on a voyage to the century-old wreck of the Titanic was found in pieces from a “catastrophic implosion” that killed everyone aboard, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Thursday, ending a multinational five-day search for the vessel, Reuters reports. A robotic diving vehicle deployed from a Canadian ship discovered a debris field from the ...