IN BANGLADESH where agriculture is the backbone of the economy and livelihood, a pivotal moment has arrived, not just to grow more but to grow differently. From the soggy rice of the Barind Tract to the fertile alluvial soils of the Meghna basin, the traditional model of high-input farming is increasingly showing its cracks: soil degradation, nutrient imbalance...
CLOSE your eyes and think about Rangamati, Khagrachhari, Bandarban, or any other Hill Tracts area. What do you see? Most Bangali Bangladeshis I know, those from the plains that is, would visualise lush, unspoiled nature, small and 鈥榟armonious鈥� communities of indigenous people living 鈥榮imple鈥�, primitive lives, and most prominently, adibashi women who will intrigue...
Another 174 Bangladeshi nationals returned home from Libya on Tuesday.
A MAN lost his life October 26 after a bearing pad from Dhaka Metro Rail fell from an elevated pier, another headline, another tragedy, another moment when Bangladeshis are forced to ask themselves: Can we trust the systems built to carry us safely home?...
A delegation from Japan鈥檚 national business support combined cooperatives met with chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus to inform about the progress on the recruitment of 100,000 skilled Bangladeshi workers in Japan...
Indian nationals shot dead a Bangladeshi youth in Kanaighat border area in Sylhet on Sunday afternoon...
QUALITATIVE change in the political system is a reflection of the long-term hopes and dreams of a nation. But this change does not happen automatically or suddenly; it requires a path of continuous, well-thought-out and structural reforms. Recently, a wave of major change has been seen in Bangladeshi politics, which is an expression of the accumulated anger of the...
A total of 309 more Bangladeshi nationals who had expressed their willingness to return home from Libya were repatriated on Friday under the supervision of the Bangladesh embassy in Tripoli, with cooperation from the Government of National Unity of Libya.
Indian Border Security Force picked up a Bangladeshi youth from the Nitpur border area under Porsha upazila in Naogaon early Wednesday.
The National Board of Revenue has introduced an option for Bangladeshi taxpayers living abroad to receive One-Time Passwords (OTPs) via email, making online income tax return submission easier and more accessible for expatriates...
Fisheries and livestock adviser Farida Akhter on Wednesday said that authorities received reports of Indian fishermen entering Bangladeshi waters in the Bay of Bengal during the temporary fishing ban imposed to protect hilsa breeding...
Bangladeshi young visual artist Anika Roy delivered a special lecture on Rickshaw Painting at an event held at Kansas State University of Kansas in the United State of America.
Eight Bangladeshi artists are displaying their artworks in a six-day international art exhibition titled 6th Ulsan Asian Print Exchange Exhibition 2025...
The Global Passport Ranking 2025 comes as a reality check for Bangladesh. The Bangladeshi passport, ranked 100th among passports of 106 countries, now stands among the world鈥檚 weakest. It appears to have increasingly become a source of suspicion and even stigma at foreign borders. The decline in global confidence in Bangladeshi passports is not sudden but..
Writers, poets, and artists gathered on Saturday to pay tribute to educationist and writer Syed Manzoorul Islam, acknowledging his profound impact on Bangladeshi literature and art...
Bangladesh high commissioner to Maldives Md Nazmul Islam particularly emphasised the long-standing demand for the establishment of a Bangladeshi bank branch in the Maldives, noting that such initiative would greatly benefit expatriate workers...
Three hundred and nine more Bangladeshi nationals, who had been staying irregularly in Tripoli and surrounding areas of Libya, were repatriated to Bangladesh on Friday through a coordinated effort of the government of Bangladesh and the...
Expatriates welfare and overseas employment ministry has been continuing all legal and diplomatic efforts to free 25 Bangladeshis languishing in prisons in Abu Dhabi of United Arab Emirates...
THEY say it is a Bangladeshi airline, but most of the staff are not deshi. They are from a neighbouring country. In London, commands in Hindi surprised me, as if it were the only parlance for a bunch of Bangladeshi expatriates waiting to start a journey to their homeland. I was flabbergasted why a Bangladeshi airline is hiring foreign people, while some of her expatriates...
Bangladeshi photographer and activist Shahidul Alam, the lone Bangladeshi aboard the flotilla vessel Conscience, on Monday said that they were waiting for smaller and slower boats to join them on their way to Gaza in a bid to break the Israeli siege of the Palestinian territory...
Bangladeshi-origin US citizen Enayet Karim Chowdhury fell sick and collapsed onto the dock of a Dhaka court on Sunday soon after hearing an order placing him on a four-day remand.
Lauding the role of non-resident Bangladeshis, Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Sunday said the remittance of Bangladeshi expatriates saved the country鈥檚 economy after the July uprising...
One hundred and seventy six Bangladeshi nationals returned home from Libya on Thursday under a voluntary repatriation programme facilitated by the government and supported by the International Organization for Migration.
A metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on Wednesday allowed the police to take detained Enayet Karim Chowdhury, a US citizen of Bangladeshi origin, in custody for two more days for interrogation in a case filed with Ramna police station under the Anti-Terrorism Act...
India鈥檚 Border Security Force on Wednesday arrested a Bangladeshi youth at Baraipara border at Tongbhanga union of Hatibandha upazila of Lalmonirhat...
Global innovative technology brand TECNO is set to launch its POVA series on the Bangladeshi market, said a press release...
THE years following Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 return to power in 2009 marked not merely a political shift but the construction of an entirely new order. What appeared at first as a democratic mandate soon revealed itself as a project of consolidation 鈥� an appropriation of state institutions into the service of dynastic authority. Bureaucracy and the armed forces, traditionally...
The ministry of expatriates鈥� welfare and overseas employment has taken a series of major decisions to expand manpower export to Japan, a market seen as one of the most promising for Bangladeshi workers in the coming years.
The Bangladesh embassy in Kuwait has called on expatriates to refrain from collecting donations or raising funds individually for repatriating the bodies of Bangladeshi nationals without Akama, valid residency permits...
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Dhaka on Monday allowed the police to take detained Enayet Karim Chowdhury, a US citizen of Bangladeshi origin, in custody for two days for interrogation in a case filed with Ramna police station under the Anti-Terrorism Act...
