Remittance surged 30 percent year-on-year in July, the first month of the current fiscal year, maintaining buoyancy in inflows as more than 40 lakh Bangladeshis have gone abroad for work over the past four years.
Bangladeshi workers arrested in Malaysia on charges of involvement in terrorism were sending money to the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria and Bangladesh, Malaysian police chief Khalid Ismail has claimed.
Malaysia is expected to recruit a maximum of 30,000 to 40,000 workers from Bangladesh over the next year, said Asif Nazrul, adviser to the Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment.
Remittance in Bangladesh crossed $30 billion for the first time and rose by a record $6.4 billion in the fiscal year 2024-25.
Remittance inflows crossed the $30 billion mark on Saturday, two days before the fiscal year is due to end, making it the highest receipts yet in Bangladesh’s history.
Malaysian police have detained 36 Bangladeshi nationals who were found to be directly “involved in a radical militant movement”, reports Malaysian outlet New Straits Times.
Despite high hopes, the budget did not introduce any new initiatives aimed at improving migrant workers' welfare, standard of living, healthcare, or security
Bangladesh recorded a sharp rise in remittance inflows in May, as migrant workers sent more money home in the run-up to Eid-ul-Azha, which falls in early June.
Thousands of people, including a good number of students, have to cross the Dumki Varani canal on small boats as the iron bridge
The fourth security dialogue between Bangladesh and the United States is being held in Washington.
European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker unveiled major plans yesterday to force the bloc to share 160,000 refugees and ease the burden on border states from the worst migration crisis since World War II.
Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) in its laboratory test finds presence of liquid cocaine in another barrel of the imported sunflower oil consignment at Chittagong Port.
Hundreds of migrants streamed into Germany yesterday to cheers and "welcome" signs, joining the thousands who arrived the previous day as Austria called for an emergency EU summit on the continent's worst refugee crisis since World War II.
Three female students has been electrocuted to death and thirteen others injured in a residential madrasa in Manda upazila of Naogaon this evening.
Police in a drive seized 65 crude bombs, a machete, a knife and a dagger from Jamilnagar area in the district town early yesterday.
Indian Border Security Force shoot dead a Bangladeshi cattle trader near Sapahar border in Naogaon.
BNP expresses concerns over India's fresh move to implement the controversial river linking project and urges the government to take strong initiatives against it.
Do you know any of the culprits who feature in the gory video of the brutal killing of 13-year-old Rajon? We need to catch and bring them to justice for their heinous crime.
