The government has decided to pay up to Tk 25,000 for each Bangladeshi worker's stay in hotel in Saudi Arabia for their seven-day on-arrival institutional quarantine. "The money will be provided from the wage earners' welfare fund," Expatriates' Welfare Secretary Ahmed Munirus Saleheen told The Daily Star over phone yesterday. The lion's share of the fund comes from the
After nine days of suspension, Biman Bangladesh Airlines today resumed flights to Saudi Arabia in line with the new travel advisory issued by the Gulf country. A top official of the national flag carrier told The Daily Star today that the first flight is scheduled to leave Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for Dammam, Saudi Arabia at 3:30pm, the second flight to Jeddah at