Bangladesh calls for ensuring transparency

Bangladesh High Commissioner to Malaysia Md Golam Sarwar has called for ensuring transparency in the recruitment process of workers from Bangladesh to Malaysia
10 February 2023, 12:58 PM

Writ seeks compensation for families of 714 deceased female migrants

A writ petition has been filed with the High Court seeking directives to provide adequate compensation to the family members of the 714 deceased female migrant workers who died in different countries.
6 February 2023, 14:23 PM

28 Bangladeshis held for staying in India slum illegally: Agra police

India's Agra police today arrested 28 Bangladesh citizens who were allegedly staying in a slum illegally.
6 February 2023, 07:11 AM

Per capita income misses estimates

Bangladesh's per capita income stood at $2,793 in fiscal 2021-22 -- $31 lower than the initial estimate as the steep depreciation of the taka messed up the government’s numbers.
5 February 2023, 16:11 PM

New window to be introduced for Islamic banks’ liquidity support

The Bangladesh Bank will introduce another tool to provide liquidity support to the cash-strapped shariah-based banks in order to cushion their ailing financial health.
5 February 2023, 15:53 PM

Malaysia hints at making recruitment easier

Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmad today said Malaysia indicated a significant change in terms of hiring Bangladeshi workers making the recruitment process much easier and transparent.
5 February 2023, 11:50 AM

IMF releases $476.27 million as first loan instalment for Bangladesh

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has disbursed $476.27 million to Bangladesh as the first instalments of $4.7 billion loan it approved early this week.
2 February 2023, 13:01 PM

Bangladesh’s forex reserves to hit 4-year low in FY23: IMF

Bangladesh’s gross foreign exchange is likely to stand at $30 billion at the end of 2022-23 fiscal year, lowest in four years, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
31 January 2023, 13:50 PM

‘Local conglomerates lost Tk 65,000cr for dollar price hike’

Bangladeshi conglomerates counted Tk 65,000 crore in losses in the last one year because of the fall of the local currency against the US dollar, which made loans costlier amid global economic volatility, a noted economist said today.
29 January 2023, 13:48 PM

EU wants to send more people back to Asia, Africa, Middle East

European Union migration ministers meet on Thursday to discuss visa restrictions and better coordination inside the bloc to be able to send more people with no right to asylum in Europe back to their home countries including Iraq.
26 January 2023, 07:28 AM

Virginia senate recognises Bangladeshi-owned Washington university

Washington University of Science and Technology (WUST) has been recognised at Virginia state senate assembly. Virginia's Fairfax State Senator John Chapman Peterson on January 18 lauded the activities of the only Bangladeshi-owned university in the US at their senate general assembly where
24 January 2023, 04:53 AM

Boy rescued from container is Ratul from Cumilla, claims family

The boy discovered in a cargo container in Malaysia's Port Klang on January 17 is from Cumilla, who went missing more than two months ago, a family from the district claimed today.
21 January 2023, 08:29 AM

Malaysian home minister to meet Bangladesh counterpart on new migrant hiring policy

Malaysian Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail has recently said that he will meet with his counterparts in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Indonesia to explain the relaxed rules for hiring migrants that the cabinet approved recently.
21 January 2023, 07:01 AM

Boy rescued from container in Malaysia calls himself Fahim

The boy found in a cargo container in Port Klang of Malaysia on January 17 calls himself Fahim and he could be Bangladeshi or Rohingya.
20 January 2023, 12:47 PM

Bangladeshi teenager rescued from ship container in Malaysia

A Bangladeshi boy has been rescued from an empty container which reached the Port Klang of Malaysia on a cargo ship that left Chattogram Port six days ago.
18 January 2023, 16:02 PM

4 Bangladeshis killed in Qatar road crash

Four Bangladeshi expatriates were killed and two injured in a road accident in Qatar on Friday, according to the sources at Bangladesh embassy there.
15 January 2023, 05:56 AM

Where did most Bangladeshi migrant workers go in 2022?

Over 11.35 lakh Bangladeshis migrated to foreign nations in 2022, the highest ever in the history of the south Asian country.
13 January 2023, 09:00 AM

Bangladeshi youth freezes to death while entering Greece

A Bangladeshi youth froze to death along Turkey-Greece border while trying to enter Greece illegally recently.
12 January 2023, 17:43 PM

Tk 32.46cr dues: Govt confiscates Regent Airways’ bank account

The government has confiscated the bank accounts of Regent Airways to collect dues worth Tk 32.46 crore, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal told parliament today.
10 January 2023, 15:11 PM

8 flights diverted from Dhaka airport due to dense fog

Eight flights could not land at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport due to thick fog today.
8 January 2023, 05:42 AM

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