Biman Bangladesh Airlines’ desperate move to resume its Dhaka-NY-Dhaka flight by hiring crew maintenance insurance (CMI) from a category-1 country looks to be futile as the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) falls far short of attaining the category-1 status.
“It’s not possible right now,” said a well-placed source at Biman, the national flag carrier.
He mentioned that it is not about hiring aircraft from a category-1 country; it is also related to making the CAAB more time-befitting one through modernising its organogram and addressing sec...
'Come before the tourists visit" is the old Bangladesh tourist board slogan that had caught my eye and partially inspired my trip. Two days after arriving in the country, I unexpectedly meet the woman who came up with it. I'm at Wilderness, a resort in the north-eastern region of Sylhet, where the majority of British-Bangladeshis hail. It's owned by Nazim Choudhury, whose glamorous wife, Geeteara, now runs her own advertising company.
I tell them I'm heading to Cox's Bazar – the world's longest beach, on the country's east coast, and Geeteara says: "That's where I had the idea for the slogan. Walking on that beach in the 1980s, when no one was around."
"But," interjects Nazim, "the tourists, they never came!" He laughs, partly at the absurdity, partly because he is accustomed to e...
The government is going to set up a 60MW solar power project at Raozan in Chittagong in the private sector.
Once implemented, officials said, state-owned Power Development Board (PDB) will purchase electricity from the private sector ‘solar park, UNB reports.
“This will be the country’s largest ever single solar project with the highest capacity,” Power Division Joint Secretary Siddique Zobair told UNB.
So far, the highest capacity of solar project is of 3MW in Jamalpur. Another solar project of 30MW capacity is now under the process of i...
Recognising the tourism sector’s potential, the government for the first time has come up with a ‘coordinated document’ to help flourish the sector in a planned way.
“This publication is a coordinated document to help flourish tourism industry. I believe, this publication will work as guideline in expanding the country’s tourism sector,” Finance Minister AMA Muhith wrote in the preface of a book.
The book titled ‘Development and Floursihment of Tourism Industry’ described in details about tourist spots,...
The government has proposed Tk 9,400 core as subsidy to the power and energy sector for the next fiscal (2014-15).
This amount was shown in the budget document as “net lending” to Power Development Board (PDB) and Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC), both state-owned entities.
Official sources at the Power and Energy Ministry said the government provides subsidy to the power and energy sector though a credit programme to keep pressure on the state entities to pay back the amount.
They said another objective of such mechanism is to show the amoun...
The Bangladesh Foundation for Tourism Development (BFTD) and Association of Travel Agents of Bangladesh (ATAB) in collaboration with the Ministry of Civil Aviation & Tourism, Bangladesh Tourism Board, Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Bangladesh Inbound Tour Operators Association, Bangladesh International Hotel Association, and FBCCI will be organizing its annual country’s biggest & prestigious international travel and tourism event, the 4th Bangladesh International Tourism Fair (BITF) 2014 from June 19-21, 2014 at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC), Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka.
The event will be inaugurated by the Honorable Minister for Civil Aviation & Tourism Mr. Rashed Khan Menon MP on June 19, 2014 at 4.30 p m. while Mr. K...
