Dhaka, Oct. 17 -- The government is establishing Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Aviation and Aerospace University (BSMRAAU) in the northern district. From the aeronautical centre in Lalmonirhat, Bangladesh would be able to make helicopters, planes and fighter planes one day in the future as the country can now build and export ships.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said this while talking to the locals of Lalmonirhat through a videoconference from Gono Bhaban at the inauguration ceremony of the intercity train Kurigram Express on the Kurigram-Dhaka-Kurigram route on October 16.

The government wants to make the rail routes profitable, modernising them to provide all sorts of opportunity and facility for the people including transportatio...