Bangladeshis pass days under open sky in Lebanon
A good number of Bangladeshi migrants have been passing days under the open sky without food and basic facilities in Lebanon while Israel announces land attacks on the...
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85 Bangladeshis to return from Myanmar
A group of 85 Bangladeshi nationals on Saturday departed Sittwe Port in Rakhine State of Myanmar to return home.
Balancing inclusivity and stability in democracy
THE democratic aspirations that Bangladeshis have nurtured, despite the former Sheikh Hasina-led government鈥檚 decade-long stringent suppression of dissent, have paved the way for a fresh political discourse through the July uprising. Riding the wave of renewed hope, the demand for a new political landscape has become stronger than ever...
Indian leader Amit Shah threatens to hang Bangladeshi infiltrators upside down
Indian union home minister Amit Shah said that the BJP will free Jharkhand of 鈥楻ohingya and Bangladeshi infiltrators鈥� and hang them 鈥榰pside down鈥�, says The Hindu...
Bangladeshi expatriates send $1.63b remittance in 21 days
Bangladeshi expatriates have send $1.63 billion in remittances in 21 days of September 2024, according to a report released by Bangladesh Bank on Sunday.
154 more Bangladeshis repatriated from Libya
One hundred and fifty-four more undocumented Bangladeshi migrants were repatriated from Libya on Friday.
Remittance from KSA halves in 3 years: BB
Remittance inflow from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has halved in three years despite the country being largest overseas labour market for Bangladeshi workers...
Justifications for a new constitution
FOLLOWING the avid days of a successful student-mass uprising, gross injustice will be done to the blood spilled on the walls and streets of Bangladesh in the months of July and August of 2024 if significant reforms are not made to the system. The immense plight of Bangladeshis in the time following up to the former prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚...
Each family of martyrs to get 聽Tk聽5 lakh, injured Tk聽1 lakh
The executive committee of the 鈥楯uly Shaheed Smriti Foundation鈥� led by Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has urged people from all sections of the society, the Bangladeshi diaspora and organisations and business firms to donate to the Foundation....
Maldives to start documenting Bangladeshi expatriates
Maldives will soon initiate the regularization process for the undocumented Bangladeshi expatriates living in the Maldives, Maldivian envoy in Dhaka said today.聽
BGB-BSF meeting decides to return 200 acres to Bangladesh
Bangladeshi landowners are set to regain around 200 acres of land previously lost to India due to the erosion of the Padma River along the Daulatpur border in Kushtia...
Indian authorities cancel visa, deport Bangladeshi over anti-india posts
Alamgir Sheikh (34) from Patgram, Lalmonirhat, has been detained by Indian authorities and had his tourist visa cancelled due to anti-India posts and comments made on social media.
National govt: need of the hour
EVER since the liberation war, we have accrued so many Gordian knot in body politic that not only one but multiple strikes from an imagined Alexander can free us of such a chokehold. Our social-political divides are so divisive, toxic, and dirty that I wonder if we belong to the same nation. We have spilled blood frequently hoping for a better future...
Maldives urged to recruit more Bangladeshi nurses
Bangladesh and the Maldives on Thursday emphasised that the two countries could further strengthen cooperation in the health, fisheries and tourism sectors...
BSF returns body of schoolboy
The Indian Border Security Force has returned the body of Jayonto Kumar Singha, a Bangladeshi schoolboy who was fatally shot along the Baliadangi border in Thakurgaon...
JU, RU students protest at border killing by BSF
Students of the Jahangirnagar University and the Rajshahi University on Monday held rallies on their respective campuses to protest against killings of Bangladeshis by the Indian Border Security Force in bordering areas...
Towards a second republic
BANGLADESH has entered a critical phase in its history on August 5. The student-mass uprising of July-August is evidence that Bangladeshis will not tolerate fascism. What started off from Dhaka University on July 1 as an innocuous demand for reforms of the quota system for government jobs turned into a massive revolution and ousted 16-year-old Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 despotic Awami League government...
Voting rights for expatriates demanded
Rights activists on Saturday demanded voting rights for Bangladeshi expatriates regarded as one of the driving forces of economic development in the country.
Bangladeshi artists showcase works in Colombo Art Expo
Twenty Six Bangladeshi artists are displaying their artworks in a four-day international group art exhibition titled Colombo Art Expo 2024...
Promises and pitfalls
THE Offshore Banking Act 2024 that was enacted in March marks a significant transformation in the country鈥檚 financial sector. This legislative measure aimed at increasing foreign currency reserves can attract international investment and facilitate the modernisation of the banking sector. However, it creates a complicated set of strategic imperatives...
Indian high commissioner optimistic about future of Dhaka-Delhi ties
The Indian high commission in Dhaka hosted a send-off event on Wednesday for Bangladeshi students leaving for India to pursue higher studies with ICCR scholarships...
Worrying absence of effective air quality enhancement plan
POLLUTION, especially air pollution, has for long been a major cause for concern for public health. Yet, the authorities have consistently remained nonchalant about the issue. While about 200,000 premature deaths are attributed to air pollution every year, the Air Quality Life Index says that pollution shortens the life expectancy of an average Bangladeshi by...
NRBs ready to help Bangladesh
NRBs or non-resident Bangladeshis comprise people of Bangladeshi origin who live outside Bangladesh. The 茅migr茅 community that has settled in various parts of our planet fall under the NRB category...
Diplomatic efforts for release of 57 expatriates demanded聽聽
Families of expatriates claimed that many Bangladeshi expatriates have been detained in several Middle East countries for holding demonstrations in solidarity with the...
An inevitable brotherhood?
The imagination of politics as a source of corruption is not new. In what is called the ancient Indian state with its many variations and formulations, corruption existed largely. One of the great worries of Chanakya, who wrote Arthashastra, the book of governance management in ancient India, was official corruption. Bureaucrats have officially been corrupt and there is no historical evidence of any impulse that can reduce it...
Gen Z鈥檚 call of duty
HOW could they be so brave as to defy death, opening their chests, arms wide, in front of guns? How could they not fear the sight of blood gushing from the bodies of their fallen brothers? How could the death of one not deter the rest? What drove them to embrace the inevitable?...
Bangladeshis deserve to hear Yunus first
THE interim government that assumed office on August 8 after the fall of the brutally repressive regime of the Awami League has so far been enjoying social and political legitimacy, largely because it is the outcome of an all pervasive student-led mass uprising. The public at large has apparently welcomed the government because of its pledge...
Indian media鈥檚 role in harming Bangladeshi Hindus
FOLLOWING the student-led protests, the mass uprising and the prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 exit on August 5, Indian mainstream media and social media have circulated false claims of rising persecution against the religious minority, the Hindu community, in Bangladesh. The reports, frequently accompanied by misleading footage, misrepresent...
Attack on sculptures, murals alarming: artists, activists
Artists and cultural activists on Sunday said attacks on sculptures and murals are alarming for Bangladeshi culture because they contain thousands of years through art...
Tareque Masud鈥檚 death anniv today
The 13th anniversary of the death of the acclaimed filmmaker Tareque Masud, best known for his much-acclaimed film 鈥楳atir Moina鈥� 鈥� the first Bangladeshi film to compete in the Oscars and won the Critics鈥� Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, will be observed today...