Lightning strike kills 2 in Lakshmipur, Noakhali
Two persons, including a woman, were killed in lightning strikes in Lakshmipur, Noakhali districts on Sunday.
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Lightning kills BNP leader in Kishoreganj
A leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party died and two other farmers were injured after being struck by lightning at Pakundia in Kishoreganj on Monday.
Strongest 鈥榟ints鈥� yet of life detected on distant planet
Astronomers announced Thursday that they had detected the most promising 鈥榟ints鈥� of potential life on a planet beyond our solar system, though other scientists expressed scepticism.
Lightning kills 2 workers in Habiganj
Two workers were killed by a lightning strike while working at a paddy field at Shibpasha village under Ajmiriganj upazila in Habiganj district on Wednesday...
Hajj flights from Bangladesh to Saudi Arabia to begin on April 29
The hajj flights from Bangladesh to Saudi Arabia will start from April 29 as the visa processing will be completed within a few days, said religious affairs adviser AFM Khalid Hossain...
Lightning kills youth
A youth was killed when lightning struck him at Bagachattar village under Langadu in Rangamati on Monday...
CPA directs lighter vessels to leave port within 72 hours
The Chittagong Port Authority has ordered the lighter vessels to exit the port boundary within 72 hours after loading imported goods from larger vessels at the outer anchorage...
Search for doomed MH370 resumes 11 years after disappearance
A fresh search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been launched more than a decade after the plane went missing in one of aviation鈥檚 greatest enduring mysteries.
US flights carrying detained migrants to Guantanamo 鈥榰nderway鈥�
The first US flights carrying detained migrants to America鈥檚 notorious Guantanamo military base in Cuba were underway Tuesday as president Donald Trump鈥檚 administration cracks down on illegal migration, the White House said...
Biman Bangladesh Airlines suspends Manchester flight
The authorities of Biman Bangladesh Airlines have taken a plan to temporarily suspend the Dhaka-Sylhet-Manchester flights in order to conduct Hajj flights of the pilgrims smooth and comfortable...
Biman to fly to Madina on Sundays
Biman Bangladesh Airlines will operate an additional flight on Dhaka-Madina-Dhaka route on every Sunday from February 2 next to cope with the high demand of Saudi bound passengers...
47 more stranded Bangladeshis repatriated from Lebanon on Saturday
Forty-seven more stranded Bangladeshi nationals were repatriated from war-torn Lebanon on Saturday on a Qatar flight with full government expenditure...
International flights resume at Damascus airport
International flights resumed at Syria鈥檚 main airport in Damascus on Tuesday for the first time since Islamist-led forces toppled president Bashar al-Assad last month...
Nepal suspends helicopters in Everest region
Nepal鈥檚 airlines have halted helicopter flights to the Everest region after locals angry at the environmental impact and loss of income from trekkers threatened landing sites, aviation officials said on Monday...
Damascus flights to resume Tuesday
Syria said on Saturday the country鈥檚 main airport in Damascus would resume international flights starting next week after such commercial trips were halted following last month鈥檚 ouster of president Bashar al-Assad.
Chandpur seven murdrs:聽Lighter vessel workers鈥� strike cripples Ctg port
A large volume of goods remained stranded at the outer anchorage of Chattogram port on Friday due to a strike by lighter vessel workers following the murder of seven crew members aboard a ship in Chandpur.聽
Syria鈥檚 first flight since Assad鈥檚 fall takes off
The first commercial flight since the ouster of president Bashar al-Assad took off from Damascus airport on Wednesday, offering Syrians a glimmer of hope after years of war and decades of oppression...
Capital flights, corruption make ensuring equality challenging
Planning and education adviser Wahiduddin Mahmud on Saturday said that building an equitable society in the current reality was challenging, given that huge capital flights, corruption and massive irregularities...
BAF accords reception to gallantry award holder freedom fighters, their successors
Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Hasan Mahmood Khan on Friday accorded a reception to the gallantry award holder freedom fighters of Bangladesh Air Force, heroic members of 鈥楰ilo Flight鈥� and their successors at BAF Shaheen Hall at Tejgaon in Dhaka.
SpaceX fails to repeat Starship booster catch, as Trump watches on
SpaceX flew its latest test flight of its Starship megarocket on Tuesday, with president-elect Donald Trump joining Elon Musk to witness the spectacle firsthand in the latest sign of their ever closer ties...
Air traffic disrupted in north as winter arrives
Dense fog disrupted flight operations during morning hours for the second consecutive running on Sunday at Saidpur airport as temperature has started falling in the northern region...
Woman killed, three others injured in lightning strike in Khulna
A woman died and three others were injured in a lightning strike in Paikgacha upazila of Khulna on Saturday...
Lightning strikes kill 4 in Kushtia
At least four people died and five others injured as lightning strikes hit them during thunderstorms in separate places in Kushtia鈥檚 Daulatpur upazila on Wednesday, police said...
297 killed by lightning strikes in 8 months: report
A total of 297 people were killed and 73 others injured due to lightning strikes in the past eight months (February-September) of this year across Bangladesh...
Lightning kills 7 in Sylhet, Sunamganj
At least seven people were killed after being struck by lightning while they were catching fish in the haors of Sylhet and Sunamganj districts on Sunday.
Lightning kills 4 in Thakurgaon, Kurigram
Four people, including a minor girl, died after being struck by lightning and 10 others, including children, were injured in Thakurgaon and Kurigram districts on Tuesday.
Lightning kills 5 in Sylhet, Sunamganj
Five people were killed after being struck by lightning in Sylhet and Sunamganj districts Saturday noon.
Lightning kills 3 as wet spell brings rain, thunderstorms
Three people were killed by lightning strikes on Sunday in Thakurgaon amidst a wet spell bringing heavy to very heavy rainfall and thunderstorms...
Flight operation at Sylhet Airport suspended for six hours
Flight operations at Sylhet Osmani International Airport were suspended for six hours on Monday.
US-Bangla Airlines inaugurates direct Dhaka-Jeddah flight
US-Bangla Airlines, a private airlines in Bangladesh, on Thursday inaugurated a direct flight on the Dhaka-Jeddah route to facilitate travel for Muslims performing Hajj and Umrah.