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Bangladesh’s reliance on Gulf nations under threat

OVER 10 million Bangladeshi migrant workers send home an estimated $22 billion in remittances annually, making it the country’s second-largest source of foreign exchange after garment exports. More than 60 per cent of this originates from the Middle East, with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Kuwait leading the way. At the same time...

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23 bodies washed up on Libya shores

At least 23 bodies, believed to be of Bangladeshis, were buried in Libya in the past eight days until Monday after washing up on the shores of Brega, a coastal city in Libya.

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Amit Shah vows to evict 'illegal Bangladeshis' in Delhi if BJP wins local polls

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's closest political ally has pledged to rid the capital of ‘illegal’ immigrants if his party wins looming elections, in a forceful appeal to his party's Hindu constituency. Interior minister Amit Shah said every unlawful migrant from neighbouring Bangladesh would be expelled from New Delhi ‘within two years’ if his party succeeded in next month's provincial polls.

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Bangladeshi artist curates Nepal Art Expo 2025

A four-day international art exhibition titled Nepal Art Expo 2025 curated by Bangladeshi young artist Md Imran Hossen is under way at the Art Council Gallery in Kathmandu...

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Climate dissonance and real solutions

FOR the last several weeks I keep hearing people commenting, ‘We’re not getting any winter this year.’ Yet when I go out in the mornings — when it’s as cold as it gets, which isn’t very cold — there are people in sweaters, jackets, mufflers, hats and gloves. Yes, it’s a smart adaptation technique, as unless people are used to extreme heat they are going to...

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Dhaka, Delhi need to effectively engage in easing border tension

THE clash between Bangladeshi and Indian villagers in the Shibganj border in Chapainawabganj over harvesting crops on no man’s land adds to the ongoing border tension resulted from India’s Border Security Force trying to erect fences on the zero line in violation of laws and agreements. Hundreds of villagers from both Bangladesh and India clashed...

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Bi-nationals should have no place in public, political administration

THIS is a welcome move that the Anti-Corruption Commission, which has found that some public servants have secretly obtained dual citizenship and used their foreign passports to conceal their illegal wealth and to syphon money abroad, has begun an inquiry to find out public servants having dual citizenship. The commission, as part of the inquiry, wrote...

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Bangladeshi found dead near border in Chuadanga

A 50-year-old man’s body was recovered from near the Indian border at Darshana upazila of Chuadanga on Wednesday amid growing tension between the two neighbouring countries over border fencing...

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FBCCI urges Bangladeshis in UK to invest in key sectors

The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry has called on British-Bangladeshi entrepreneurs to invest in Bangladesh’s key sectors, including energy, technology, education, human resource development, the blue economy, and tourism...

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Bangladeshi man’s body recovered along border

Members of the Border Guard Bangladesh recovered the body of a Bangladeshi man in the Kotok Bazar area along the Indian border under the Adarsha Sadar upazila in Cumilla on Thursday morning...

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Bangladesh seeks roadmap from Malaysia for stranded workers

Bangladesh interim government foreign affairs adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Monday conveyed to Malaysia that Bangladesh looks forward to the roadmap to be given by the Malaysian government regarding the stranded Bangladeshi workers, who were unable to enter Malaysia by May 31, 2024.

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Torture, killing of Bangladeshis on border should stop

THREE Bangladeshis allegedly having been tortured to death by India’s Border Security Force once again questions the commitment of Indian authorities to ending border killing. The police and the Border Guard Bangladesh found the bodies on three spots along the border with India near the River Ichhamati at Sharsha in Jashore on December 18. While the...

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Bangladeshi migrants in Malaysia can sue Dyson: UK Court

The United Kingdom Court of Appeal ruled on Friday that two dozen Bangladeshi and Nepali workers, allegedly subjected to forced labour in Malaysia, could sue Dyson, a British vacuum cleaner manufacturer in London...

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Nation still in need of complete list of martyred intellectuals

Martyred Intellectuals Day comes every year with a demand, as media report around that time, for a comprehensive list of the intellectuals that the nation had lost in the fag end of the liberation war at the hands of the Pakistani occupation forces and their local auxiliary squads, including Razakar, Al Badr and Al Shams, that abducted members of the...