On April 4, a large fire gutted thousands of shops at a popular clothing market named Banga Bazar in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka. Firefighters complained of water scarcity as a big barrier to controlling the fire. Around 10 days later, there was another massive fire in one of Dhaka’s crowded markets. Complaints from firefighters were […]
Kennedy family feels special kinship with the people of Bangladesh and will always support the democracy and prosperity of this country, said Edward M Kennedy Jr, son of late US Senator Edward M Kennedy, who supported Bangladesh’s Liberation War as opposed to the Nixon administration.
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Torrential rainfall today left several parts of Dhaka city in knee-deep to waist-deep water, disrupting public movement. Talking to The Daily Star, Dr Abdul Mannan, a meteorologist of Bangladesh Met Department, said rainfall will continue till tomorrow and then the situation will improve slowly.
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.