Malaysian job market for Bangladeshis reopens soon

Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Nurul Islam yesterday said Malaysian job market will reopen soon for
22 January 2016, 18:00 PM

2016 crucial for migration

The year 2016 will be crucial for migration, which attracted global focus for amalgamating nationalism and the build up to integration through sharing sovereignty, observed Sir Peter Sutherland at a seminar in the capital yesterday.
21 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Migration issue to stay crucial in 2016: UN official

The migration issue will remain crucial in 2016, observes Sir Peter Sutherland, special representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) on Migration and Development.
21 January 2016, 11:49 AM

UN envoy on int'l migration due today

United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for International Migration Peter Sutherland arrives in Dhaka on a three-day visit Tuesday.
19 January 2016, 05:00 AM

Saudi wants 2 lakh female workers

Saudi Arabia has sought two lakh female workers from Bangladesh, says Nurul Islam, minister for expatriates' welfare and overseas employment ministry.
6 January 2016, 10:02 AM

Dhaka to discuss migration with int'l community

Bangladesh will negotiate with the international community in an upcoming conference to adopt comprehensive policies on the migration issue.
4 January 2016, 18:00 PM

KSA keen to recruit more workers from Bangladesh

Saudi Arabia expresses its willingness to recruit more male workers and trained female domestic workers from Bangladesh to meet up the demand of their domestic market.
31 December 2015, 16:01 PM

Rangpur journo killed, body dumped beside highway

A journalist of a local daily is found dead on Dhaka-Rangpur highway in Rangpur city.
24 December 2015, 05:45 AM

Lone X-ray machine lies inoperative for 5 years

The only X-ray machine at Rajapur Upazila Health Complex has remained out of order for about five years, much to the suffering of patients.
9 December 2015, 18:00 PM

AG for upholding Nizami’s death penalty

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam prays to the Supreme Court to uphold the death sentence of war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami for his crimes against humanity during the country’s Liberation war in 1971.
7 December 2015, 05:58 AM

Man killed over land dispute

A youth was murdered allegedly by one of his cousins over a land dispute at Raita village in Kalaroa upazila on Tuesday. The deceased,
28 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Cyber café owners threaten ‘digital hartal’

Cyber café owners threaten to enforce a “digital hartal” across the country by shutting down internet services to realize their six-point demand.
19 October 2015, 09:14 AM

Thousands suffer as bridge lies without repair for 9 days

Thousands of people, including a good number of students, have to cross the Dumki Varani canal on small boats as the iron bridge
7 October 2015, 18:00 PM

4th US-Bangladesh security dialogue held

The fourth security dialogue between Bangladesh and the United States is being held in Washington.
12 September 2015, 04:58 AM

European Union unveils bold refugee plan

European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker unveiled major plans yesterday to force the bloc to share 160,000 refugees and ease the burden on border states from the worst migration crisis since World War II.
9 September 2015, 18:00 PM

Cocaine detected in another barrel

Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) in its laboratory test finds presence of liquid cocaine in another barrel of the imported sunflower oil consignment at Chittagong Port.
8 September 2015, 14:23 PM

To cheers, they arrive

Hundreds of migrants streamed into Germany yesterday to cheers and "welcome" signs, joining the thousands who arrived the previous day as Austria called for an emergency EU summit on the continent's worst refugee crisis since World War II.
6 September 2015, 18:00 PM

3 female students die from Naogaon electrocution

Three female students has been electrocuted to death and thirteen others injured in a residential madrasa in Manda upazila of Naogaon this evening.
27 August 2015, 15:22 PM

Shibir leaders held, 65 crude bombs seized

Police in a drive seized 65 crude bombs, a machete, a knife and a dagger from Jamilnagar area in the district town early yesterday.
30 July 2015, 18:00 PM

BSF kills Bangladeshi on Naogaon border

Indian Border Security Force shoot dead a Bangladeshi cattle trader near Sapahar border in Naogaon.
27 July 2015, 07:39 AM