Sixteen people are dead after a vessel carrying Haitian migrants capsized off the coast of The Bahamas, authorities said on Sunday, amid a continuing wave of sea migration toward the United States.

Almost 700 migrants, including five dead bodies, were rescued on Saturday off the southern coast of Italy, a coastguard statement said on Sunday, as flows of migrants crossing the Mediterranean increase during favourable sea conditions.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines today grounded four cabin crews for alleged misbehaving with passengers on board of a Dhaka-bound flight.

Bangladeshis were found to be the highest number of irregular migrants reaching the shores of Italy in the first six months this year.

Greece will regularise some 15,000 undocumented Bangladeshis, said Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen today (July 22, 2022).

Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob has guaranteed that Bangladeshi workers there will not face any exploitation or discrimination.

Allowing selected number of recruiting agencies to send migrant workers to Malaysia is not “fair and ethical”, Jatiya Party Secretary General Mujibul Haque Chunnu said yesterday.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has blamed Kolkata airport authorities for the suffering of its passengers on a Dhaka-bound flight on Monday night.

Local airlines will have to face a severe blow losing their competitiveness globally due to an unprecedented hike in the price of jet fuel in the domestic market in one go. 

Malaysia has started the process of hiring workers from Bangladesh without settling the controversy surrounding the syndicate of 25 agencies chosen to conduct the recruitment.

Parul Begum (name changed), a single mother of two, thought she caught a break when she got the offer to work as domestic help in Qatar for a monthly salary of Tk 40,000.

The country’s national flag carrier, Biman Bangladesh Airlines, got a new managing director and CEO yesterday. 

Bangladeshi migrant workers continued to face financial hardship in Lebanon, while many found it difficult to remit money home after making ends meet, due to a prolonged economic crisis there.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines got a new managing director and CEO today (July 13, 2022).

Biman may face serious consequences for neglecting Qatar Civil Aviation Authority’s request for a probe into a close call between a Biman and a Qatar aircraft at Doha airport in January.    

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has suspended three of its officials and staffers after the wings of two Boeing aircrafts were damaged at the airline’s hanger at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport recently.

The government has set Tk 78,990 as maximum migration cost at Bangladesh end that a worker will have to bear to secure employment in Malaysia.

Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has started investigation into the allegations of syndication in the recruitment of Bangladeshi workers in the Southeast Asian country.

Bangladesh government today launched Migration Compact Taskforce (Taskforce) aimed at facilitating the implementation, follow-up, and review of the Global Compact for Migration (GCM).

Upon arrival at the Dhaka airport, one has to take the trouble of crossing the busy airport road if he or she wants to catch a train or a bus.