Following the re-emergence of Covid-19, Saudi Arabia has banned its citizens from traveling to 16 countries including India, according to the Gulf News.

Hajj agencies will be able to announce separate “special hajj packages” on their own but the pricing of any such package cannot go below the minimum set amount, Hajj Agencies Association of Bangladesh President M Shahadat Hossain Taslim said today.

In Saudi Arabia, the moon of Shawwal month was not seen on Saturday (April 30, 2022). Hence, tomorrow (Sunday) will be the last day of the holy month of Ramadan in Saudi Arabia, and Eid-ul-Fitr will be celebrated on Monday (May 2, 2022).

This year’s Hajj flights will start from May 31, State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism M Mahbub Ali said today.

Immigration of all aspirant hajj pilgrims will be completed at Dhaka airport this year, waiving the need to wait in long lines in Saudi Arabia.

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In yet another incident of extreme torture, a 32-year-old Bangladeshi female worker has returned home from Saudi Arabia with her 6-month-old.

Saudi Arabia has endorsed Bangladesh’s proposal to form a Covid-19 Response and Recovery Plan to save lives and livelihood in the member countries of the Organizaton of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday suspended prayers inside all its mosques except the holiest two sites in Islam as it steps up efforts to contain the new coronavirus, state media reported.

A Biman flight carrying 406 Bangladeshis who went to Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport today.

A total of 217 more Bangladeshi workers are deported by Saudi Arabia, raising the number to over 2,500 in last three weeks.

The recruiting agencies of Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia will shoulder all responsibilities of female workers as long as they remain in the kingdom.

Some 215 more workers are deported from Saudi Arabia despite having valid work papers.

A total of 153 Bangladeshi workers return home from Saudi Arabia in the face of crackdown on undocumented workers there.

Many of the 200 Bangladeshi workers forcibly who were sent back from Saudi Arabia have said they were deported despite having legal documents.

Saudi Arabian authorities send back 93 more migrant workers to Bangladesh -- as part of a crackdown on undocumented workers in the kingdom.

Saudi Arabia is allowing foreign men and women to rent hotel rooms together without proving they are related, after the conservative Muslim kingdom launched a new tourist visa regime to attract holidaymakers.

Some 175 Bangladeshi workers return home from Saudi Arabia amid a crackdown on undocumented workers there.

Kabirun Nahar sat on a luggage trolley as she got out of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka yesterday. She had nothing with her bearing signs of her life overseas, apart from her right leg bandaged from above the ankle to her toes, the doing of her Saudi employer.

According to a report in this daily on March 18, around 300 to 400 Bangladeshi migrant workers are being deported every week from Saudi Arabia.