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MNA International Desk: Heathrow Airport, a major international airport in the United Kingdom, has decided to cancel 177 flights on Monday and Tuesday as thousands of workers overwhelmingly preparing for a strike after rejecting a revised pay offer. Around 4,000 Unite members including engineers, firefighters and security staff voted on the airport’s revised deal, with 88 per cent opting to strike, reports BBC. If the walk-outs go ahead, Unite says, almost 2,500 staff will miss work. Heathrow is yet to announce which flights will be cancelled, and said passengers should check with their airlines to see if they were affected. ...

MNA National Desk: A day labourer died and some others were injured when a portion of a boundary wall of the Customs office at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital collapsed on them on Tuesday morning. The dead was identified as Mostafa. The injured were taken to Bangladesh Medical College where the on-duty doctors declared Mostafa dead. Airport Police Station OC Noor-e-Azam said some workers were wounded as a portion of wall collapsed around 10:45am while construction of a drainage line got underway. Fire Service duty officer Ataur Rahman said being informed, five fire fighting units rushed to the ...

MNA Business Desk: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday approved the increasing strength of existing runway and taxiway of Sylhet Osmani International Airport project involving an expected cost of Tk 451.98 crore in a bid to modernize the airport. The sanction came from the 18th ECNEC meeting of the current fiscal year held at the NEC Conference room in the city’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area with ECNEC Chairperson and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said that a total of eight projects were approved today involving an estimated cost of ...

MNA Business Desk: The government of Bangladesh has kicked off the procedure to construct Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib international airport, the fourth international airport, in the country. Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) on Wednesday signed a deal with a Japanese company to carry out a viability study on the projected Bangabandhu international airport. Ehsanul Gani Choudhury, CAAB chairman air vice marshal, and Toshikazu Kambara, deputy director general of Nippon Koel Company Ltd of Japan, signed the agreement involving Tk 1.2 billion on behalf of their respective sides in the morning. According to the agreement, Nippon Koel Company Ltd will conduct ...

MNA International Desk: At least 36 people were killed in suicide attack at Istanbul airport. Reportedly, a triple suicide bombing at Istanbul’s main international airport on Tuesday night has left 36 dead and as many as 150 injured in a suspected ISIL attack. One attacker opened fire in the departures hall with an automatic rifle, sending passengers diving for cover and trying to flee, before all three blew themselves up in or around the arrivals hall a floor below, witnesses and officials said. The attack on Europe’s third-busiest airport is one of the deadliest in a series of suicide bombings ...