Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia should be able to enjoy the fruits of their hard labour.
A classic case of monumental corruption took place in Bangladesh centring the recruitment of workers for the Malaysian labour market.
The prejudiced Indian intellectual elite and the media outlets’ hypocrisy is palpable by their collective silence about the atrocities committed by AL and law enforcement agencies.
The July massacre has brought the credibility of this regime into question.
On that evening, the student activists were scheduled to brief the media about the ongoing movement.
Bangladeshi migrant workers require a range of services and support at both the origin and destination ends.
In almost all cases involving opposition activists, they were found guilty
Bereft of the basic rights to assemble and express, let alone protest, the people of Bangladesh are currently bearing the brunt of the coercive apparatuses of the state.
Failing to nab her husband, Yasmin Begum, a mother of two, was picked up by the Detective Branch of police in Gazipur in the evening of February 18.
Amartya Sen characte-rised “argumen-tative Bengalis” also take avid interest in politics. In 2013 the Pew Research Center found that Bangladeshis are the most politically engaged nation. 65 percent of Bangladeshis were in the “high level” political participation category and a further 29 percent at “medium level”.
Within a week of the ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that provisionally recognised the group identity of the Rohingya and the unremitting persecution that the community has endured over decades,
Days ago, the editor of the leading Bangla daily Prothom Alo and a few of his colleagues were forced to secure higher judiciary intervention that ordered law enforcers not to harass or arrest them until the hearing on a bail petition in a lower court.
In the annals of Bangladesh’s parliamentary history, January 14, 2020 has secured special significance.
January 7 marked the ninth anniversary of the gruesome killing of Felani Khatun, 15 years old, at Anantapur border of Phulbari Upzila
Finally the tides of uncertainty and insecurity generated by the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Citizenship Amendment Act
Late last week, Burma announced that its de facto head, Aung San Suu Kyi, will appear before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to defend the country against allegations of genocide.
Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right and its absence turns a human life into an animal’s.
"Boys and girls can now talk to each other,” declared the governor of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) on October 14.
