A Moulvibazar polling centre reported a hundred percent turnout in Sunday’s union parishad elections although the voter list included people who have died and those who were not even in the country.
Axed flights leave migrants in the lurch
An exhausted migrant worker fell asleep on the floor of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital. Photo: Rashed Sumon, Amran Hossain
The return of several thousand Bangladeshi expatriate workers to their workplaces abroad, particularly in Saudi Arabia, suffered a major blow yesterday due to cancellation of eight flights from Dhaka.
National carrier Biman was forced to cancel five flights, four to Saudi Arabia and one to Singapore, while Fly Dubai cancelled two flights to Dubai, and US-Bangla Airlines cancelled a flight to Muscat, Group Captain AHM Touhid-ul Ahsan, director at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, told The Daily Star.
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