PM to leave for New York to join UNGA

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave Dhaka for New York, USA on Sunday to attend the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the premier and her entourage members will depart from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 9:45am. The flight is scheduled

Record number of workers leave for S Korea

A total of 248 Bangladesh expatriate workers left for South Korea from Bangladesh through a chartered flight from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Tuesday. It is the biggest number of the workers left for South Korea in a day so far, said the Embassy in a media release. South Korean

Tourists leaving Bandarban amid drive against militants

Tourists have started leaving Bandarban district as local administration has imposed a temporary ban on tourism at Ruma and Rowangchhari upazilas from Tuesday morning as a security drive was going on to either arrest or remove suspected militants and criminals from the hilly region. The administration has also discouraged tourists to