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Libya repatriates 369 Nigeria and Mali migrants

Libya repatriated Tuesday 369 irregular migrants to their home countries Nigeria and Mali, including more than one hundred women and children, an official...

Afghan, Nepali migrants hurt in Serbia as van overturns

Thirty Afghan and Nepali migrants were injured when a van transporting them overturned in southeastern Serbia, the RTS state-run television reported on...

UK deports illegal migrants to Vietnam, East Timor

Britain’s new Labour government on Thursday said it had deported 46 people to Vietnam and East Timor, after ditching the previous Conservative administration’s plan to...

Probe body for action against recruiting agents

A expatriates’ welfare and overseas employment ministry-formed probe committee has recommended legal action against about 100 recruiting agents for their alleged negligence and failure to send over 17,000 Malaysia-aspirant migrants, who paid the agents huge money for the purpose...

UGC urges VCs, protesting students to follow SC order

The University Grants Commission on Thursday urged the vice-chancellors of all public and private universities in Bangladesh and protesting students to restore academic activities following the recent Appellate Division order....

Skilled professors to teach in new, remote univs: UGC 

Experienced and skilled professors from renowned universities would be engaged in new and remote universities to address the shortage of professors and ensure quality education, officials...

Plan to send migrants from UK to Rwanda 'dead and buried': Starmer

Newly elected UK prime minister Keir Starmer on Saturday began his first full day in charge declaring the ousted Tories' plan to deport migrants to Rwanda ‘dead and buried’ and pledging growth as his government's ‘number one mission’.

4,261 migrant workers return dead in a year

An increasing number of Bangladeshi migrants have been embracing unexpected death in destination countries as at least 4,261 bodies of migrant workers have...

Lutful Hasan, Jeba Islam made UGC professors

The University Grants Commission has appointed former vice-chancellor of Bangladesh Agricultural University Lutful Hasan and Dhaka University biochemistry and molecular biology department professor Zeba Islam Seraj as the ‘UGC Professorship 2023’...

150 migrants rescued in English Channel

French authorities said on Thursday that more than 150 migrants trying to reach Britain had been rescued from overloaded boats in the Strait of Dover and...

Starmer faces backlash over comments singling out Bangladeshi migrants

UK Labour Party leader Keir Starmer is facing a backlash from his own party after he singled out Bangladesh as a country where illegal migrants are not being deported quickly enough, reports ITVX...

Indians march to end ‘slavery’ after worker death shakes Italy

Thousands of Indian farm labourers urged an end to ‘slavery’ in Italy on Tuesday after the gruesome death of a worker shone a light on the brutal exploitation of undocumented migrants...

UGC signs APA with BSMMU

The University Grants Commission signed Annual Performance Agreement with Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University at the UGC auditorium in Dhaka on Sunday...

UGC member prof Jakir pays tribute to Mujib

Newly appointed member of Bangladesh University Grants Commission professor Md Jakir Hossain on Satuday paid tribute to Bangladesh’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by...

Prof Jakir joins UGC as member

Jagannath University marketing department professor Md Jakir Hossain has joined the University Grants Commission as a full-time member.

Record number of migrants cross Channel to UK in single day this year

More than 880 irregular migrants crossed the Channel to Britain on small boats on Tuesday, the UK government said, the highest number in a single day...

Boats carrying migrants from Bangladesh, other countries sink off coast of Italy

One of the two boats that sank off the coast of southern Italy in which at least 11 people died and over 60 went missing was carrying migrants from countries including Bangladesh, according to BBC....

Budget allocation for public univs reduced

The budget allocation for the country’s 55 public universities has been reduced for the financial year 2024-25...

49 migrants dead after boat sinks off Yemen

A boat carrying more than 200 migrants sank off Yemen, leaving at least 49 dead, mostly women and children, in the latest disaster on the perilous migration route from Africa, a UN agency said on Tuesday...

11 bodies retrieved from Mediterranean off Libya

The bodies of 11 people, believed to be migrants, were retrieved off the Libyan coast on Friday, the Doctors Without Borders said on X.

Organised crime abusing work visa scheme to smuggle in migrants: Italy PM

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday announced plans to reform Italy's visa system for non-EU workers, saying it was being exploited by organised crime groups to smuggle in illegal migrants.

Dr Kamal calls for action to address migrants’ sufferings 

Senior lawyer Dr Kamal Hossain urged the government to take immediate action at the highest level to address the sufferings of Malaysia-bound workers, as reported by ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· on June 1...

UGC calls on IQACs to ensure quality of education at univs

The member of the Bangladesh University Grants Commission, Professor Biswajit Chanda, called on Institutional Quality Assurance Cells of different public universities to play a role in improving the quality of education and research at higher educational institutions of the country by organising training programmes, workshops and seminars for their students, teachers and staffs...

Hundreds of migrants from Bangladesh stuck at Dhaka, KL airports

Thousands of Bangladeshis were stuck at Dhaka and Kuala Lumpur airports on Friday amid a last-minute rush before Malaysia shut its doors to migrant workers on...

JU appoints registrar flouting UGC directives

The authorities of Jahangirnagar University on Wednesday extended the tenure of its current registrar’s job for one more year on a contractual basis, flouting the University Grants Commission’s directives for appointing registrars at universities...

Govt orders NU to close on-campus courses

National University is finally closing its all enrolment activities for honours programmes on the main campus following a directive of the government...

Migrants arriving in UK by sea top 10,000 this year

More than 10,000 irregular migrants have crossed the Channel to Britain on small boats this year, government data released on Saturday showed — unwelcome news for prime minister Rishi Sunak as he seeks re-election...

Service lists to be made visible on web: UGC

The University Grants Commission instructed the authorities concerned of the organisation and educational institutions to prepare a list of services and upload them to the website of the institutions, and also display them in an open space...

India’s parliament has fewer Muslims as strength of BJP grows

Muslim people find no place to pray in Italian city

It's Friday prayers in the north-eastern Italian city of Monfalcone, and hundreds of men are on their knees in a concrete parking lot, their heads bowed to the ground.