Jamil Mahmud

Bangladeshi migrants without residence permit who are employed by Saudi Arabian companies will get an opportunity to return under an initiative taken by the Gulf country recently.

Return of over 10,000 undocumented Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia is still uncertain due to a shortage of flights and high ticket prices as the amnesty for the repatriation of illegal foreigners ends tomorrow.

About 28,000 Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia are still facing uncertainty over returning home within the December 31 amnesty deadline due to the high price of air tickets and a shortage of flights, said sources at the expatriates’ welfare ministry.

The body of Babulal, who was killed in an airstrike in Libya on November 18, reached home yesterday.

Against the backdrop of recent protests over alleged abuse and torture of female migrant workers in Saudi Arabia, a government delegation is going to hold meeting with Saudi authorities in Riyadh on Wednesday.

Little did Sumi Akter know the extent of misery awaiting her when she left for Saudi Arabia to work as a domestic help. She was tortured, kept confined for days, and sold by her employer.

Recent deportation of migrant workers from Saudi Arabia brings to the fore how Bangladesh government fails to prevent malpractices in recruitment and ensure migrants’ welfare, according to experts.

A total of 110 female migrant workers returned empty-handed from Saudi Arabia on August 26. Around 38 of them were forced to return after facing physical and sexual torture, while 48 came back home as they were not paid their salaries on a regular basis.

It has been more than three years since Bakul Chakma filed a complaint with the CHT Land Dispute Resolution Commission in February 2016. He accused some Bangalees of grabbing two acres of his farmland and a three-acre homestead.

The government is formulating a set of standards, which will impose limits on indoor air pollution, especially in workplaces, and empower itself to punish violators.

The government is going to formulate a set of rules in line with the Parents’ Maintenance Act-2013, in a bid to make sons and daughters take good care of their elderly parents.

He dodged death miraculously despite falling from the 19th floor of the Banani high-rise FR Tower while escaping Thursday's devastating fire that claimed at least 25 lives and left scores injured.

The administration together with the law enforcement agencies played a role to influence the December 30 polls outcome in favour of the ruling Awami League, the Left Democratic Alliance candidates have alleged.

Despite various preventive measures by government and non-government organisations, violence against women in Bangladesh shows little sign of decreasing.

Some 25 female journalists from different media outlets yesterday took to the streets, expressing solidarity with the women who recently shared their bitter experiences of sexual harassment and abuse on social media.

Since the abduction of indigenous leader Kalpana Chakma in 1996, an independent judicial inquiry was conducted and at least 39 officers have investigated the case.

The Taj Manzil of Kalyanpur in Dhaka saw a drastic change in last one and a half years after nine suspected militants, who had holed up there under the guise of tenants, were killed in police operation codenamed “Storm 26” on July 26, 2016.

The number of Bangladeshis working abroad is increasing every year but their safe migration still remains a big challenge for the government, posing a threat to the country's top remittance-earning sector.

Adding another feather to their already illustrious caps, two female pilots of Bangladesh Air Force are now all set to join the United Nations Peacekeeping mission in Congo.

In the busiest hour at a superstore in the capital's Gulshan, Shimu Gomez is busy putting an assortment of daily necessities in a specific order near the cash register.