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
February 2, 2016
Malaysia slaps levy on migrant workers
Around 3 lakh registered Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia would have to pay the levy previously paid by their employers as the country yesterday imposed a new levy on foreign workers.
February 1, 2016
Why so many return dead?
Afzal Hossain of Noakhali had gone to Saudi Arabia for job, spending Tk 6 lakh.
January 5, 2016
Who'll bring it home?
A sum of Tk 50 crore does not seem to be any money at all to the people at the home and foreign ministries. The amount, which should have been in the government coffer, now lies with a foreign company.
January 3, 2016
Bangladesh mission against Malaysia move
In the wake of a series of controversies, the Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur now says Malaysia's appointing a company would establish its absolute control over labour recruitment from Bangladesh.
January 2, 2016
'Helpless, shocked'
"Less than an hour after the voting began, some seven to eight ruling party men stormed the booth I was assigned to. Identifying themselves as Chhatra League and Jubo League activists, they tried to take the ballots away from me."
January 1, 2016
Protect our migrant workers
IN 2015, we witnessed the ghastly experiences of thousands of Bangladeshi migrants, rescued from the death traps set by the human traffickers...
December 31, 2015
Ghost voting makes turnout high
Some polling centres in Savar municipality recorded an abnormally high turnout yesterday although the presence of voters was visibly thin.
December 19, 2015
Migrants get little help
Bangladeshi migrant workers often don't get expected services from the labour wings of the country's foreign missions despite the fact that they send home remittance of around $14 billion a year. In most cases, officials and staffs at the wings are unresponsive to the needs of the workers abroad, a number of migrant workers and rights activists told The Daily Star yesterday.
December 18, 2015
Bangladeshi law enforcers yet to identify trafficking masterminds
Law enforcers have so far failed to arrest any of the masterminds behind the trafficking of over 3,000 Bangladeshis through the Bay of Bengal this year. They have been carrying out drives to track down human traffickers and their ring leaders since the trafficking victims were rescued mostly from Thailand and Malaysia in May and June. In the last six months, law enforcers could only arrest around 400 alleged middlemen and local agents of human-trafficking networks, not any of the ring leaders.
November 30, 2015
Move on to save DIP official
Even though two probe bodies found four officials of DIP guilty of issuing over 100 government-employee passports based on fake certificates, a section of home ministry officials are now trying to save one of them from punishment.
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