Middle East-bound migrant workers have demonstrated at Dhaka Airport and in front of the offices of Biman Bangladesh Airline and Saudi Arabian Airlines after a Saudi-bound special flight of Biman was cancelled early today.
Seven special flights -- for migrant workers stuck in the country due to the weeklong ban on international flights -- were cancelled today.
Several hundred Saudi Arabia bound migrant workers demonstrated at Dhaka Airport early this morning due to cancellation of a Biman Bangladesh Airlines special flight.
Expatriate workers who have clearance from the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET) will get priority on the special flights to return to their workplaces in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Oman and Singapore.
US-Bangla Airlines will operate 21 special flights to Dubai, Muscat, Doha and Singapore for seven days starting from tomorrow.
Biman Bangladesh Airlines will operate around 100 special flights to Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, UAE and Singapore for a week from April 17 to carry migrant workers to their respective workplaces.
The job portal “Chakrir Khoj” launched by the Bangladesh High Commission in Malaysia is aimed at facilitating Malaysian government’s ongoing legalisation process and ensuring welfare of the migrants, said the Bangladesh mission there in response to a Malaysian minister slamming the initiative.
Bangladesh passport moved up one notch from last year in the latest edition of the Henley Passport Index, the pioneer ranking of all the world's travel documents.
The High Commission of India in Bangladesh has temporarily suspended operations at all its visa centres across Bangladesh.
The US Embassy in Dhaka said it will remain closed for routine US citizen services for the duration of the “lockdown”.
