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    The Religious Affairs Ministry yesterday published a list of 24 public and private banks, where Moallem fees can be deposited by pilgrims for performing Hajj this year. The Ministry has also prepared a list of around 650 Hajj agencies, involved in sending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia for this purpose. According to Ministry officials, the list will be published soon to avoid fraudulent agencies taking advantage of pilgrims by collecting Hajj fees. Meanwhile, the list of banks has already been published on the Ministry website and sent to the Hajj agencies and authorities concerned to inform them. The Hajj office has signed an agreement with those banks on its terms and references. The public banks allowed to receive Moallem fees consist of Sonali, Rupali, Pubali, Agrani, Bangla...

    Debris of the chartered aircraft floating in the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday. The aircraft, bound for Jessore from Cox’s Bazar, crashed shortly after it took off. Injured Wazi Morout, 47, a Ukraine national, who was rescued from the sea after a privately-chartered aircraft crashed into the Bay. He has been moved to Chittagong for better treatments. No fire, plane just dropped, witness says. A privately-chartered cargo aircraft crashed into the Bay of Bengal this morning killing three person. One other has been rescued in critical condition. The crash site was about half a kilometre off Cox’s Bazar’s Nazirtek, at the estuary of the Bay and Bakkhali River, our local correspondent reports quoting police and aviation authorities. The Russian-owned True Aviation Limited’s aircr...