Oman has suspended the issuance of visas across all categories for Bangladeshis from Tuesday until further notice, reported The Times of Oman yesterday, quoting Royal Oman Police (ROP), the Gulf country’s immigration authority.
Expatriate workers usually come to Dhaka one of two days ahead of their flight abroad from different districts of the country.
Authorities at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport yesterday advised patients suffering from conjunctivitis to come to the airport with a doctor’s prescription and necessary medicines before traveling abroad.
India yesterday restored all currently valid regular (paper) visas, in a development that will be much cheered by Bangladeshis, who account for the highest number of tourist arrivals.
Amid Omicron-driven surge in Covid-19 cases, India today announced revised and more stringent guidelines for international passengers under which they will have to undergo mandatory home quarantine for a week on arrival in the country, even if they test negative for the infection at the point of entry.
Santa has been cleared for travel in Canada’s airspace after showing proof of vaccination and a pre-flight negative Covid test, the transport minister said Thursday.
Expressing concern over the high airfare to different Middle Eastern destinations, the Expatriates’ Welfare Ministry today sent a letter to the civil aviation ministry to take measures to reduce the price of air tickets.
Biman Bangladesh Airlines will resume flight operations on Dhaka-Kolkata-Dhaka route from September 5 under the air bubble agreement with India.
Flight operations under the air bubble agreement between India and Bangladesh are likely to resume from tomorrow instead of today, sources at the civil aviation ministry and Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh said.
Flight operations under the air bubble agreement between India and Bangladesh are likely to resume from September 4 instead of tomorrow, sources at the Civil Aviation Ministry and Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) have said.
Flight operations under the air bubble agreement between India and Bangladesh are set to resume from September 3, four months after it was suspended amid rising Covid-19 infections.
Flight operations under the air bubble agreement between India and Bangladesh will resume from September 3, four months after it was suspended amid rising Covid-19 infections.
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday approved two more Covid-19 vaccines -- Sinovac and Sinopharm, Arab News said.
Oman has lifted its travel ban on 18 countries, including Bangladesh, effective from 12 noon of September 1, four months after imposing the ban due to the rise in Covid-19 infections.
The Saudi government has decided that pilgrims who have received Sinopharm’s Covid-19 vaccine will not be allowed to perform Umrah.
Although the foreign minister recently said flights with India will resume today, Biman Bangladesh Airlines, US-Bangla and Novoair said they are yet to get any direction from Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) in this regard.
Kuwait will resume commercial flights with Bangladesh and other countries, while adhering to the Covid-19 measures set by a ministerial committee, a cabinet statement said on Wednesday.
