Brokers feast on passport-seekers
Kabir Mia yesterday went to the Agargaon passport office to get his MRP but he instead ended up being detained for forgery and handed over to the Rapid Action Battalion.
7y ago
[WATCH] 2 held for using false info in passport application
Officials at Department of Immigration and Passport (DIP) detain a person and a suspected broker for allegedly using false information in passport application.
7y ago
Gone broke for broker
Hashem Rahman made a Tk 3.5 lakh contract with a local broker in Comilla to get a restaurant job in Oman in 2015. His poor family
7y ago
The plight of Aleya
Aleya Begum was happy to get a job as a domestic help at a police official's house in Saudi Arabia.
7y ago
Impunity a licence for crimes
People of Bangladesh will decide how long the ongoing trial of the perpetrators of 1971 crimes will continue, observed visiting Canadian lawyer William Sloan.
7y ago
Maksuda loses battle for life
Maksuda Begum, a divorcee for almost 20 years, had struggled to survive by fighting against her fate.
7y ago
Rising deaths abroad raising concerns
Five years back, Nazrul Islam from Munshiganj took a Tk 5-lakh loan from a local bank and ventured out to Malaysia where many Bangladeshis have tried their luck over the years.
7y ago
Exploited by employers
Malaysian employers are paying undocumented Bangladeshi workers wages much lower than the average, taking advantage of lack of legal protection for migrant workers, says a Malaysian migrant rights activist.
7y ago
June 11, 2016
One year a slave
A 15-year-old who boarded a boat in 2014 at Teknaf in Cox's Bazar believing he would earn a fortune in Malaysia, returned home on
May 22, 2016
Huge rush to get registered
Hundreds of Bangladeshi migrants, most of them undocumented, in Malaysia are thronging Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur every day for obtaining their passports, birth certificates and other necessary documents to become legal in the Southeast Asian country.
April 23, 2016
Agargaon passport office: Bid to improve service ahead of PM's visit
For the past few days, there has been a rather surprising change in the way things go on at the Agargaon passport office in the capital.
April 14, 2016
Dream trip to US turns nightmare
They had no idea about how they would get to the United States of America. They were kept in the dark about their uncertain and perilous journey. They were just asked to follow instructions, no questions asked.
April 11, 2016
Making most of Facebook
While most of us are content with maintaining social connections, even the very casual ones, with Facebook and catching up on what friends have been up to, looking at their holiday photos or photos of their children, some have been using Facebook for study materials and getting jobs.
April 7, 2016
American dream ruined for 27
Monjur Islam, a 20-year-old Bangladeshi, travelled at least 15,000km in 11 countries of Asia and the Americas in his four-month-long journey to reach his dreamland, the United States of America.
April 2, 2016
Two abducted Brac staff still traceless
The news came a day after she sat for her fourth-year final examinations, and since then she could not concentrate on her study.
February 26, 2016
35 victims return from Malaysia
They left their homes early last year in search of better employment opportunities and livelihoods in Malaysia.
February 12, 2016
Fresh hope for 2 lakh expatriates
More than two lakh undocumented Bangladeshi migrants in Malaysia are set to be regularised, with the legalisation procedure expected to begin next week. The process will go on simultaneously with the recently-agreed recruitment of 1.5 million fresh Bangladeshi workers, said sources in Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur.
February 4, 2016
Three lakh jobs in Dubai by 2020
Around 300,000 new jobs will be created in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in next four years ahead of the World Expo 2020 that is scheduled to be held in Dubai.
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