Private carrier US-Bangla Airlines has added one more Boeing 737-800 aircraft to its fleet.  With the addition of one Boeing 737-800, the number of US-Bangla Airlines aircraft now stands at 17, highest among the private airlines of Bangladesh, Md Kamrul Islam, general manager (public relations) of the US-Bangla, said Sunday. Read: US-Bangla Airlines wins Best Domestic Airlines award The new Boeing 737-800 landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka Saturday at 5:50pm directly from Kuwait. Captain Lutfor Rahman, chief executive officer of US-Bangla, officially received the aircraft. The aircraft has 189 economy class seats, Kamrul said. Apart from operating flights on all domestic routes, US-Bangla now runs flights to Kolkata, Chennai, Male, Muscat, Doha, Dubai, Sharjah, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Guangzhou.

The Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed shortly after takeoff in the Iranian capital on Jan. 8 was hit by two short-range TOR-M1 missiles, Iranian state IRIB TV reported Tuesday.