In search of work, caught in war
12 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Manpower fraud
12 Bangladeshis killed in Middle East war: Expatriates' welfare minister
9 July 2026, 18:32 PM
Migration
Record $35.5 billion remittance came in FY26
1 July 2026, 17:46 PM
Business
7 Malaysian MPs raise monopoly concerns over Turap recruitment platform
29 June 2026, 20:47 PM
Migration
The hidden tax on Bangladesh's diaspora
29 June 2026, 18:52 PM
Business
‘Take steps to bring back our loved ones’
22 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Migration
Ahead of Malaysia trip, PM urged to end recruitment syndicate system
17 June 2026, 21:44 PM
Migration
She left Bangladesh with hope; returned pregnant and broken
4 June 2026, 00:36 AM
Migration
Italy-bound fortune seekers: Scarred, they return to debt and isolation
2 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Undocumented
Remittance crosses $3 billion mark for sixth consecutive month
1 June 2026, 18:15 PM
Business
Bangladesh’s remittance to drop by $1b this year
Remittance flow to Bangladesh is projected to drop by $1 billion to $21 billion this year from $22 billion last year, according to the World Bank.
1 December 2022, 07:41 AM
In a stadium of their own, migrant workers say their sweat made World Cup happen
Taking selfies from the stands and sitting on the grassy pitch, thousands of migrant workers gathered in a Doha stadium to watch the opening match of the first World Cup in the Middle East.
21 November 2022, 16:12 PM
Jamuna Bank gets nod to establish exchange house in Spain
Jamuna Bank Limited has received approval from the Bangladesh Bank to establish an exchange house in Spain.
21 November 2022, 08:40 AM
230 accounts of MFS providers frozen for hundi
The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) yesterday froze 230 accounts of several mobile financial service providers as the accountholders were allegedly involved in hundi.
17 November 2022, 08:05 AM
Bangladesh a part of EU legal migration scheme
European Commissioner Ylva Johansson is coming to Bangladesh on a two-day visit today to advance legal migration from Bangladesh -- one of the four countries included in the European Union’s Talent Partnership.
9 November 2022, 18:00 PM
LIVE UPDATE: ‘Make dollar exchange rate free for Bangladesh’
The exchange rate of dollar needs to be freed to make the garment business profitable at this crisis time, said a top leader of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) today.
7 November 2022, 07:38 AM
LIVE UPDATE: ‘Complacency responsible for falling forex reserve’
"Complacency has brought us to the current forex reserve situation,” said Salehuddin Ahmed, former governor of the Bangladesh Bank.
7 November 2022, 07:00 AM
LIVE UPDATE: Come up with strategy now to stop depletion of forex reserves: Ahsan H Mansur
The government should come up with a clear strategy to stop fast depletion of the foreign currency reserves in a bid to save the country from a major crisis, said a noted economist today.
7 November 2022, 06:22 AM
LIVE UPDATE: Only external factors not responsible for Bangladesh’s economic volatility: Debapriya
The external factors are not only responsible for Bangladesh’s present economic volatility, rather there are some issues which remained unattended for a long time such as low revenue collection, absence of quality public expenditure and the non-performing loans, said noted economist Debapriya Bhattacharya today.
7 November 2022, 06:10 AM
Banks withdraw service charge on remittance
Banks in Bangladesh today decided to withdraw service charge on remittances sent home by expatriate Bangladeshis with a view to gearing up the inflow.
6 November 2022, 14:46 PM
Which were October’s top remittance receiving banks?
Do we know which were the top remittance receiving banks in Bangladesh for the month?
1 November 2022, 14:59 PM
Remittance falls by 7.4% in Oct
Remittance declined further in October, intensifying the pressure on the government to manage its macroeconomy amid plummeting foreign exchange reserves.
1 November 2022, 11:31 AM
Man left behind by brokers in forest while migrating to Greece now missing
On the way from Turkey to Greece, the brokers and fellow companions left him alone at a forest. Since then, an immigrant Bangladeshi youth named Sagar Khan has been missing.
30 October 2022, 19:04 PM
52 migrants including 16 Bangladeshis arrested in Malaysia
Malaysia's immigration authorities have arrested 52 immigrants, including 16 Bangladeshis, for not having valid documents.
21 October 2022, 13:51 PM
Mobile app launched to send remittance from Malaysia
The “City Remit” mobile app has been launched to make it easier for expatriate Bangladeshis to send remittances through the legal route in Malaysia.
17 October 2022, 14:07 PM
22 dead, dozens missing as 2 migrant ships capsize in Mediterranean
Bodies floated amid splintered wreckage in the wind-tossed waters off a Greek island Thursday as the death toll from the separate sinkings of two migrant boats rose to 22, with many still missing.
6 October 2022, 14:13 PM
Remittance lowest in seven months
Despite a surge in the outflow of migrant workers, remittances to Bangladesh declined 11 percent year-on-year to $1.54 billion in September, the lowest in seven months.
3 October 2022, 02:10 AM
Manpower export to Middle East surges
The number of Bangladeshi workers who headed to the Middle East countries in search of jobs surged 177 per cent year-on-year in the first eight months of 2022, official figures showed.
2 October 2022, 02:10 AM
Presumed dead in Thai jungle: 2 photos and hope rekindled
Hearing the news of the mass graves discovered in Thailand in 2015, family members of three men who had left Bangladesh two years ago thought they were among those buried.
29 September 2022, 02:00 AM
KL to take 10k workers under G2G system
The Malaysian government has made a new move to hire Bangladeshi workers under a government-to-government arrangement as the
28 September 2022, 18:00 PM