Pakistan’s beleaguered national airline will resume flights to Europe on January 10 after European Union authoritieslifted a four-year ban on the carrier, the company said in a statement on Saturday. The statement from Pakistan International Airline (PIA), which was at the centre of a pilot license scandal, said a “PIA flight will depart from Islamabad to Paris on January 10”. ...

Dr. Ahmed Mushtaque Raza Chowdhury, an internationally acclaimed public health expert and convener of Bangladesh Health Watch, was awarded the Public Health Excellence Award by the Public Health Foundation of Bangladesh. The award was conferred during the 10th International Public Health Conference held on Friday in Bogura, organized jointly by Public Health Foundation and TMSS Medical College. He shares the ...

The National Security Intelligence (NSI) and Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) on Saturday (December 7) seized 733 grams of gold from a drama artiste and a passenger at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong. The market value of the seized gold is Tk 69 lakh. They were arrested from a Dubai-Chittagong-Dhaka return flight (BG 148) of Biman Bangladesh Airlines ...

Urging the interim government to quickly present an election roadmap, BNP senior leader Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain has said that people must be oriented towards elections through a clear electoral roadmap. “The interim government’s commitment was to establish an anti-discriminatory state, but it is not wise to stay in power indefinitely in the name of reforms.” He made this comment ...

A group of retired Armed Forces officers, under the banner of the ‘National Unity and Solidarity Council,’ on Saturday urged all to get united against, what they described, Indian aggression. Speaking at a demonstration at RAWA (Retired Armed Forces Officers’ Welfare Association)Complex premises in the capital on Saturday (December 7), the retired Armed Forces officers called for greater national unity ...

Tea workers in eight tea estates under the National Tea Company Limited at Kamalganj upazila in Moulvibazar, refrained from work due to unpaid wages. Despite an earlier agreement to resume work on Friday (December 6) after receiving overdue wages, the payment could not be processed as the Bangladesh Bank did not issue a no-objection certificate, delaying a loan from the ...

Planning and Finance Adviser Dr Wahiduddin Mahmud has said Bangladesh is going to set a political government next year. “Income inequality remains one of the country’s most pressing concerns. To tackle this disparity, quality education is paramount, an area where Bangladesh still has a long way to go.” Speaking at the opening session of the Annual Baltic Conference on Defence ...

Lionel Messi was named Major League Soccer’s Most Valuable Player on Friday after leading Inter Miami to a record-breaking regular season campaign. The Argentine superstar was handed the accolade after his performances helped Miami to a record regular season points tally, earning the club its first ever Supporters Shield. The 37-year-old maestro finished the regular season with a league-leading 36 ...

Police arrested a former leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) in front of Longla Modern Degree College at Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar district on Friday afternoon. The arrested BCL leader is SM Zaman, the former vice-president of the Kulaura Government College BCL unit. Acting on a tip-off, he was arrested by the police, said Md Golam Afsar, officer-in-charge of Kulaura ...

BNP Standing Committee member Major (Retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed has said that the Indian government’s major mistake is that they have made the people of Bangladesh as their enemies while trying to make Awami League as their friends. “They (Indian government) doesn’t want friendship with people of Bangladesh, rather they have Awami League as their friend,” he said while speaking ...