Shariful Islam

With the government planning to double the number of tourists to one million in Bangladesh by 2018, industry

A prisoner in Dhaka Central Jail has to spend around Tk 30,000 a month for food and other services which the state is supposed to provide for free.

The new board of Biman Bangladesh Airlines will decide today whether it would appoint a foreigner as its managing director and chief executive.

The strength of the police force will increase significantly with the recruitment of more than 21,000 cops by next fiscal year. The move is now awaiting a government order (GO) from the home ministry.

False entries made by an airport screener on the list of checked goods and a casual smoke break taken by another one were the last straw for the UK monitoring team, leading to the temporary ban on Dhaka-London direct air cargo. The Daily Star learnt this from a report of the UK Department for Transport (DfT) and a reliable source in the British High Commission in Dhaka.

Redline Assured Security is expected to get the contract today for ensuring security screening at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport

British company Redline Assured Security has demanded Tk 58 crore for overall security management at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for six months while negotiation with another British company, Restrata, was going on yesterday.

As part of the move to pick a foreign company for overall security management at Hazrat Shahjalal International

Biman will lose business of around Tk 100 crore a year if the ban on direct cargo from Dhaka to the UK continued.

The UK has banned air cargo directly from Dhaka until further notice as Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport failed to meet some international security requirements.

I was standing at the immigration cue at Hamburg Airport watching their highly efficient system. No matter how many people appeared

Kyle Haywood yesterday resigned as the Biman Bangladesh Airlines managing director and chief executive officer after serving a year at the helm of the national flag carrier.

Last year was one of the worst in a decade in terms of suspected militant attacks in Bangladesh.

“Boma” Shakil is the man Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) found as the most talented explosive expert after “Boma” Mizan.

The authorities in the US in partnership with private agencies are engaging community and religious leaders to free some Somali-American youths from their alleged inclination towards terror outfits like Al-Shabab and Islamic State (IS).

The global youth summit against violent extremism that started in New York on Monday had a speaker who was once inclined towards terrorism but now prevents others from going astray.

The dreadful memories of captivity still send shudder down his spine. Police tortured Joj Mia in custody to make him confess to a crime he did not commit.

A police investigation has found direct links of six policemen with a yaba smuggling syndicate based in Cox's Bazar, say police officials.

On the morning of July 12, all the hustle and bustle of the busy Eid market at the capital's Science Laboratory intersection came to a standstill, at least for a few minutes. Five armed men jumped out of a white microbus and forced two men into the vehicle. It was around 10:30. The victims -- two brothers, as it later transpired -- shouted for help from inside the vehicle with black glass, but none of the several hundred eyewitnesses dared to approach the microbus.

The Saudi authorities this year stopped issuing Umrah visas to Bangladeshis on the allegation of smuggling of migrants into the