Bangladesh receives $1.05b in remittances in 12 days of April
Expatriate Bangladeshis sent over US$ 1.05 billion remittances during the first twelve days of April in the fiscal 2024-25...
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NRBs allowed to open accounts in any currency
Bangladesh Bank on Sunday allowed Non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs) to open bank accounts in all usable foreign currencies...
Indian nationals shot at two Bangladeshis
Indian Khasia people allegedly shot at least two Bangladeshis near the Bichhnakandi border at Gowainghat upazila in Sylhet on Wednesday night...
Election Commission considers proxy voting for expatriate Bangladeshis
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...
BSF returns 3 Bangladeshis
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...
About $2b remittance received in 22 days
Expatriate Bangladeshis sent near US$ 2 billion in remittances during the first 22 days of February in the fiscal 2024-25...
Bangladeshis鈥� credit card spending drops in India
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.
Govt urges Canada to expedite Bangladeshis鈥� visa processing
Foreign adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Monday urged Canada to expedite visa processing for Bangladeshi nationals with a particular focus on students...
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 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.
Malaysia extends repatriation programme for undocumented Bangladeshis
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...
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...
Bangladesh receives $1.21b in remittance in 18 days
Expatriate Bangladeshis sent over US$1.21 billion in remittance during the first 18 days of January in the 2024-25 fiscal year...
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鈥檚 key sectors, including energy, technology, education, human resource development, the blue economy, and tourism...
Torture, killing of Bangladeshis on border should stop
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...
EU countries urged to shift visa centres from Delhi
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...
50 migrants to return daily, says govt
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
Mission in Lebanon should employ all means to help migrants
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...
Banks allowed to provide emergency loans to NRBs
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Jailing 57 Bangladesh nationals UAE鈥檚 internal affair: FM
Foreign minister Hasan Mahmud said on Wednesday that arrest and imprisonment of 57 Bangladeshi nationals over protests in the United Arab Emirates were in accordance with their internal law...
Govt response to Bangladeshis鈥� jailing in Dubai unfortunate
THE remarks of the foreign affairs minister and the expatriate welfare and overseas employment minister that the arrest and the imprisonment of 57 Bangladeshis in Dubai is an internal affair of the United Arab Emirates are unfortunate and, therefore, unacceptable. The remarks that the ministers made in Dhaka on July 24 are nothing short...
Climate migration in the Sundarbans
IN 2022, 7.1 million Bangladeshis were forcibly displaced by weather-related events, a figure forecast to nearly double by 2050. One US Agency for International Development report estimates that 90 million Bangladeshis 鈥� 56 per cent of the population 鈥� live in regions classified as 鈥榟igh climate exposure areas.鈥� Half of them face 鈥榲ery high鈥� exposure...
Dhaka, Delhi must work together to stop illegal organ trade
THE detention of three Bangladeshis and four Indians, including a surgeon, by the Delhi police in the past week for illegal trafficking in organs, suggests that the authorities of both the countries have failed to stop transnational illegal organ trade that has continued for years. The detained surgeon of the Delhi-based Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals...
Death of migrant workers must be investigated
THE plights of exploited migrant workers have fallen on deaf ears of successive governments as the number of death in destination countries continues to increase. The Wage Earners and Welfare Board says that at least 4,261 Bangladeshis died abroad in July 2023鈥揓une 2024. Official statistics also report a staggering 41,053 death in 2002鈥�2021...
Govt must work for release of Bangladeshis from foreign jails
THIS is distressing that 11,450 Bangladeshis languish, as the foreign minister said in the parliament in a scripted answer on July 1, in jails in 31 countries. Quoting Bangladesh missions abroad, the minister says that the highest of 5,746 Bangladeshis are detained in jails in Saudi Arabia. The breakdown shows that 1,579 Bangladeshis are in jails in India...