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
November 25, 2015
Bangladesh’s home minister says expats won’t face problem
Though the International Civil Aviation Organisation's deadline for terminating the use of handwritten passports
November 23, 2015
Expatriates face MRP trouble
They paid fees and service charges to IRIS Corporation for their passports in Saudi Arabia three to four months ago but the Malaysian outsourcing company did not bother to give passports to at least 50,000 Bangladeshi expatriates.
November 13, 2015
Manpower export rises
More Bangladeshi workers went abroad in the first 10 months of this year than the entire last year, government data show.
October 28, 2015
Manpower export from Bangladesh to Saudi Arabia in limbo
The Saudi Arabian government is allegedly putting pressure on Bangladeshi recruiting agencies to send female workers to the kingdom, although women are reluctant to go there for fear of torture by employers.
October 10, 2015
Hajj agencies in Bangladesh draw flak for poor service
Around one lakh Bangladeshis go to Saudi Arabia every year to perform hajj and pay private agencies a good amount for better services during the holy ritual.
October 3, 2015
Bangladeshi haji couldn’t save his mother during Saudi stampede
The scene of the stampede that left hundreds of Hajj pilgrims dead in Saudi Arabia still haunts Shamim Ahmed, 45.
September 30, 2015
Hajis tell of stampede horror
Ferdous Ahmed was waiting in a queue on the third floor of Jamaraat Bridge in Mina to join the symbolic “Stoning of Satan” ritual.
September 20, 2015
Back home from sea of death
Ismail looked up at the sky and took a deep breath.
August 22, 2015
Some Bangladeshi recruiters, brokers become active again
A section of private recruiters and their brokers have become very active to attract jobseekers with the promise of jobs in Malaysia
August 16, 2015
Heartbreak for 15,000 hajj aspirants
Despite paying fees to private hajj agencies, around 15,000 Bangladeshis will not be able to perform hajj this year, as the quota of
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