Rashidul Hasan

Even though 18 years have passed, Mahbuba Parvin is still unable to put herself back together after the trauma she faced in the August 21 grenade attacks on a rally by the Awami League.

Two similar accidents in front of the hangar of Biman Bangladesh Airlines at the Dhaka airport have raised questions about the national flag carrier’s efficiency and the sincerity of its staff in carrying out their roles.

Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has found several “ghost equipment”-purchases, worth several crore taka, made by the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB).

Air passengers from Dhaka to Jashore and Barishal have dropped significantly as many southbound travellers are preferring to travel by road following the inauguration of Padma Bridge in late June.All three airlines -- Biman Bangladesh, US-Bangla and Novoair -- are facing difficulty to attract passengers on these routes.

A parliamentary body yesterday said the environment and biodiversity of Cox’s Bazar are at serious risk due to the dumping of poisonous substances from the shrimp hatcheries into the sea.

In spite of massive preparations undergoing for long, Biman Bangladesh Airlines’ much-awaited maiden commercial flight on the Dhaka-Toronto route will run today with around 138 seats empty.

At least 39 officials of the civil aviation ministry and Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) made over 50 foreign trips in fiscal 2021-22 spending around Tk 1.5 crore of taxpayers’ money despite a government restriction. 

A parliamentary body yesterday formed a three-member sub-committee to investigate alleged corruption and irregularities centring construction of the third terminal at Dhaka airport.

The authorities at the Kolkata airport have rejected Biman’s claim that they did not permit the deplaning of passengers from a Biman flight left stranded at the airport for four hours on July 18 due to a technical glitch.

The repayment of foreign loans in the power sector may worsen the country’s debt-servicing burden as the government will have to pay the lenders Tk 197,677.27 crore in the 30 years from 2024-25 fiscal.

Islam is a religion of peace which never supports any violent activities against people of other religions, said Maulana Mohiuddin Kasham, a pesh imam of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque.

The government paid Tk 16,785 crore in capacity charges to power plants in the first nine months of the last fiscal year for 22,118MW daily power generation capacity.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has blamed Kolkata airport authorities for the suffering of its passengers on a Dhaka-bound flight on Monday night.

A parliamentary body yesterday recommended conducting energy audits on different government buildings to identify the energy efficiency of those structures.

They are lawmakers. Yet they took the law into their own hands.

The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday placed grave statistics before a parliamentary body on the state of Dhaleshwari river, saying aquatic life and biodiversity of the river are being destroyed due to unbridled pollution caused by the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate.

Local airlines will have to face a severe blow losing their competitiveness globally due to an unprecedented hike in the price of jet fuel in the domestic market in one go. 

The vaccine manufacturing and research plant project in Gopalganj saw no progress over one year due to red tape.

Biman may face serious consequences for neglecting Qatar Civil Aviation Authority’s request for a probe into a close call between a Biman and a Qatar aircraft at Doha airport in January.    

Two aircraft of Biman Bangladesh Airlines collided at the hangar on Sunday, in a repeat of the incident in April that had left two Boeings grounded for months.