departure card
Economic Reporter
Private carrier US-BANGLA Airlines has introduced computerized departure card service for the convenience of passenger.
The computerized departure card would note down all required information of the passenger to ease the immigration process.
“The first ever digitized departure card in the country would allow the passenger to avoid burden of filling up the necessary information manually,” said US-BANGLA Airlines Deputy General Manager Kamrul Islam at a media statement on Saturday.
All the required information of passenger such as name, date of birth, details of passport, flight number would be noted in the computerized departure card, he added.
Kamrul said Bangladesh exports manpower to different countries of which most of the people are illiterate or less educated and not able to fill up departure card accurately that create unwanted complexities during immigration.
The new system would help those people, he added.
Second submarine cable to start commercial
operation this month
Business Desk
The commercial use of the second submarine cable will start in this month, which aims to make the internet available for wider use.
State Minister for Post and Telecommunications Tarana Halim has said the commercial operations will start after the connection is inaugurated by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina within March.
The minister was speaking to the media after visiting the Kuakata Landing Station of the connection in Patuakhali recently.
Bangladesh got connected to its second submarine cable of South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe-5 (SEA-ME-WE-5) Consortium on Feb 21.
Tarana said the setting up of transmission link from Kuakata to capital Dhaka has been completed and trialled successfully.
She hoped it would be possible to provide Barisal, Khulna, Faridpur, Patuakhali and other districts in the region at cheaper rates after the commercial launch.
Bangladesh is getting 1500 gigabyte more bandwidth after hooking up to the new connection, according to Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited.
