The death of Bangladeshis at the hands of India鈥檚 Border Security Force has become a grim reality, with barely any effective response that would stop the happening. The death hardly creates outrage outside a few rights groups. The Border Guard Bangladesh lodges protests. The issue comes up at bilateral meetings or dialogues. Yet, there is little sustained pressure or...
Home adviser Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Tuesday said that Bangladesh had urged India to repatriate only those identified as Bangladeshis through proper channel...
EACH Eid, millions of Bangladeshis undertake long journeys to reunite with loved ones, carrying with them gifts, savings and hopes. These homecomings, rooted in ritual and emotion, are meant to be moments of joy. Yet, with alarming regularity, they are punctuated by devastating reports of road crashes. This year was no different. The Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity...
A team of Indian police and intelligence departments arrested 90 people, including women and children, branding them as Bangladeshi citizens, in a joint operation at the Khajpur village under the Nohjheel police station in Uttar Pradesh...
NEIGHBOURS and the two largest countries in South Asia, India and Pakistan are proverbial adversaries. Both have a long and checkered history with Bangladesh. Therefore, the relationship between Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan can be read as one of a love triangle, with Bangladesh being at the centre of attraction and the other two countries competing...
The United Arab Emirates made significant progress in resuming visa issuance for Bangladeshi nationals, following 鈥榮ustained diplomatic engagement鈥� between the two countries, officials said...
Indian Border Security Force keeps killing Bangladeshis in border areas with the number of the killed increasing in recent months despite repeated promises by India to bring down the killings to zero...
Expatriate Bangladeshis sent over US$ 1.05 billion remittances during the first twelve days of April in the fiscal 2024-25...
Bangladesh Bank on Sunday allowed Non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs) to open bank accounts in all usable foreign currencies...
Indian Khasia people allegedly shot at least two Bangladeshis near the Bichhnakandi border at Gowainghat upazila in Sylhet on Wednesday night...
The Election Commission is considering the introduction of proxy voting for expatriate Bangladeshis in the 13th parliamentary elections as the commission thinks that this system would be the most practical solution to the issue within the timeframe available for the polls...
The Border Guard Bangladesh on Tuesday said that they brought back three Bangladeshis who were detained by India鈥檚 Border Security Force two days ago on penetration charges in the northwestern frontier...
Expatriate Bangladeshis sent near US$ 2 billion in remittances during the first 22 days of February in the fiscal 2024-25...
Credit card spending by Bangladeshis in India has been falling, while such expenditures in USA, Thailand and Singapore have been rising, according to central bank data.
Foreign adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Monday urged Canada to expedite visa processing for Bangladeshi nationals with a particular focus on students...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's closest political ally has pledged to rid the capital of 鈥榠llegal鈥� 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 鈥榳ithin two years鈥� if his party succeeded in next month's provincial polls.
The Bangladesh high commission in Malaysia has announced an extension of the migrant repatriation programme for undocumented Bangladeshi nationals, allowing them to return home under revised provisions set by the Malaysian government...
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...
Expatriate Bangladeshis sent over US$1.21 billion in remittance during the first 18 days of January in the 2024-25 fiscal year...
The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry has called on British-Bangladeshi entrepreneurs to invest in Bangladesh鈥檚 key sectors, including energy, technology, education, human resource development, the blue economy, and tourism...
THREE Bangladeshis allegedly having been tortured to death by India鈥檚 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...
Chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Monday urged the European Union to relocate its visa centres for Bangladeshis from Delhi to Dhaka or to any other neighbouring country...
The government has initiated a move to evacuate 1800 Bangladeshis registered to return home from Lebanon voluntarily amid attacks by Israeli forces on the Arab country.聽
ISRAEL鈥橲 invasion of southern Lebanon, reportedly targeting Hezbollah which has a significant presence in both the Lebanese parliament and the government, has left about 1,000 civilians dead. And, Israel鈥檚 attacks have forced a good number of Bangladeshis who work as migrant workers mostly in apparel factories, hotels, hospitals and households...
The Bangladesh Bank on Wednesday allowed banks to provide loans of up to Tk聽10 lakh to non-resident Bangladeshis working abroad for emergency purposes...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...