Belal Hossain Biplob

Construction companies operating in the Gulf region especially in the UAE and Qatar are failing to protect migrant workers from hazardous working environment, hinting at an alarming signal on the workers' safeguards in workplaces, said a survey report of Business & Human Rights Resource Centre.

Around 50,000 Bangladeshi expatriates in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Malaysia are anxiously waiting for their machine readable passports (MRP) even after paying the fees over a year ago.

The return of 25 Bangladeshi workers, who have been stranded at a factory in Afghanistan for over eight months without work and

The fate of around 15,000 Hajj pilgrims of 143 private hajj agencies is hanging in the balance as the agencies are yet to arrange their

Foreign remittance is definitely contributing to the country's rising development in many areas. Today, every year around eight million Bangladeshis across the globe are remitting about USD 15 billion, which has gradually been boosting the country's economy.

Four Bangladeshi men left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in a flight for Qatar in July, 2014. But Qatar was not their

Victims and their families have denounced Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Nurul Islam's claim last

The first flight for Hajj pilgrims this year will commence on August 4, Thursday, from Hazrat Shahjajal International Airport to King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah.

His plan was to surprise his family with a sudden visit from Qatar to celebrate Eid together.

More than two lakh undocumented Bangladeshi migrant workers have registered their names with the Malaysian

The atmosphere of the passport office in the capital's Agargaon was refreshingly different on the day of April 24, when Prime

A “syndicate” of some pro-Awami League Swadhinata Chikitsak Parishad (Swachip) doctors and medical representatives at an eye hospital in the capital is allegedly making patients pay extra for contact lenses.

A 15-year-old who boarded a boat in 2014 at Teknaf in Cox's Bazar believing he would earn a fortune in Malaysia, returned home on

Hundreds of Bangladeshi migrants, most of them undocumented, in Malaysia are thronging Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur every day for obtaining their passports, birth certificates and other necessary documents to become legal in the Southeast Asian country.

For the past few days, there has been a rather surprising change in the way things go on at the Agargaon passport office in the capital.

They had no idea about how they would get to the United States of America. They were kept in the dark about their uncertain and perilous journey. They were just asked to follow instructions, no questions asked.

While most of us are content with maintaining social connections, even the very casual ones, with Facebook and catching up on what friends have been up to, looking at their holiday photos or photos of their children, some have been using Facebook for study materials and getting jobs.

Monjur Islam, a 20-year-old Bangladeshi, travelled at least 15,000km in 11 countries of Asia and the Americas in his four-month-long journey to reach his dreamland, the United States of America.

The news came a day after she sat for her fourth-year final examinations, and since then she could not concentrate on her study.

They left their homes early last year in search of better employment opportunities and livelihoods in Malaysia.