A 70-year-old Montu Das on Wednesday was seen crying while sitting on the floor of his stuffy room devastated as the Dhaka South City Corporation began evicting a section of people from the Miranzilla Harijan Sweepers Colony in Bangshal in Old Dhaka on Monday...
TWENTY-EIGHT years after, the family and comrades of Kalpana Chakma, a Hill Women鈥檚 Federation leader, still await justice as authorities have failed to resolve the abduction case. Kalpana was allegedly picked up on June 12, 1996 by a group of armed men, including a junior army officer, from her house in Rangamati...
The Bangladesh Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Merchants Association on Wednesday demanded withdrawal of 60 per cent duty imposed on central air conditioning (VRV/VRF) system in the proposed budget for FY25 and thus reinstate the existing 11 per cent duty...
State minister for expatriates鈥� welfare and overseas employment Shafiqur Rahman Chowdhury said on Tuesday that so far 3,000 people who failed to...
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...
Early morning frost has been detected on the peaks of massive volcanoes on Mars, an unexpected discovery about the dispersal of water on Mars that could one day prove essential for human exploration, scientists said on Monday...
It has been 28 years that Hill Women鈥檚 Federation organising secretary Kalpana Chakma, who went missing after her abduction in聽 Baghaichari of Rangamati on...
More than 10 million people have been displaced within war-torn Sudan, according to figures released on Tuesday by the International Organisation for Migration.
The state-owned Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation will start its six-day special bus services across the country from June 13 ahead of Eid-ul-Azha...
Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation organised a discussion on the 鈥楻ole of BSCIC in the Implementation of Vision 2041 in the Progress of Development鈥� and distributed 鈥楰arushilpa Award 1430鈥� at Oasis Hall of Pan Pacific Sonargaon in Dhaka on Monday...
THE exploitation of migratory waves to affect opposing national economies in a global context open to economic warfare appears today as a paradigm. This makes the management of the migration issue a problem with a global dimension that requires a well-coordinated global response...
Ukraine said on Sunday it had hit an Su-57 fighter jet parked at an airfield in southern Russia, its first ever attack on Moscow鈥檚 latest generation stealth aircraft...
The government on Sunday appointed former chief justice Hasan Foez Siddique as new director general of the Judicial Administration Training Institute...
The Real Estate and Housing Association of Bangladesh on Sunday suggested that the government should rationalise the registration costs for both land and flats to encourage people to disclose the real prices of their properties...
Politicians and professionals on Friday at a commemoration meeting said that the ideals of political thinker Serajul Alam Khan would have to be followed to establish an exploitation-free democratic Bangladesh...
The Hill Women鈥檚 Federation and Parbatya Chattogram Nari Sangha held a protest rally in Khagrachari on Friday, demanding that the order, issued by a Rangamati court on April 23 dismissing the trial over the disappearance of Chittagong Hill Tracts-based rights activist Kalpana Chakma, be cancelled...
Italian ambassador to Bangladesh ambassador Antonio Alessandro said that visa applications accompanied by fake documents and the illegal practice of paying hefty amounts of money to middlemen were among the reasons that create problems in making smooth migration from Bangladesh to Italy...
A workshop on current situation, achievements and prospects of the project titled 鈥楶roduction, processing and distribution of quality spice seeds鈥� held at the Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation in Dhaka鈥檚 Sher-E-Bangla Nagar area on Friday...
EACH year, the International Organisation for Migration releases its World Migration Report. Most of these reports are anodyne, pointing to a secular rise in migration during the period of neoliberalism...
Italian ambassador to Bangladesh, Antonio Alessandro, has said that visa applications accompanied by fake documents and illegal practice of paying hefty amount of money to middlemen are among the reasons that create problem in making smooth migration from Bangladesh to Italy....
A total of 97,07,250 workers from Bangladesh, including 10,85,117 female workers, have been employed from 2009 to 2023 in 176 countries across the world鈥�...
The High Court in a verdict on Wednesday asked the Department of Immigration and Passports not to hold back passports on the excuse for pending criminal cases against applicants...
Shafi Ahmed, former member of the Liberation War affairs sub-committee of the Awami League and former general secretary of the JSD Chhatra League central committee, was laid to eternal rest at Netrakona municipality graveyard on Wednesday...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency has rolled out its three-year-long 鈥榙evelopment of mediation and civil litigation practices for enhancement of access to justice鈥� project in Bangladesh, with an aim to establish a more accessible and efficient justice system in the country...
Aspiring migrant workers who have failed to go to Malaysia even after depositing larger amounts of money are now grappling with uncertainty over refund of the money from the agencies...
INTERNATIONAL law 鈥� the recognized rules of behavior among nations based on customary practices and treaties, among them the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 鈥� has been agreed upon by large and small nations alike...
SAUDI Arabia hosts World Environment Day this year, focusing on land restoration, desertification and drought resilience. This is relevant within the framework of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021鈥�2030), a global initiative designed to protect and revive ecosystems to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals...
The ruling Conservative party announced plans on Monday for new annual caps on work and family visas to cut immigration after the opposition laid out its plans for...
The country鈥檚 apex trade body Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry on Sunday urged businesses to prevent and regulate the supply of substandard fire safety equipment on the market聽to ensure safety of residential, commercial and industrial establishments...
State minister for expatriates鈥� welfare and overseas employment Shafiqur Rahman Chowdhury on Saturday said that legal action would be taken against those...