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Work in Malaysia: Recruitment cartel gearing up again

A cartel of overseas recruitment agents that once exploited Bangladeshi workers migrating to Malaysia is allegedly becoming active again -- this time without the involvement of Awami League leaders.
13 May 2025, 18:01 PM

Parties split over ‘pluralism’, nat’l constitutional council

Consensus commission’s talks with political parties have yielded consensus on some key issues
3 May 2025, 18:01 PM

Migrants stranded as ‘Ami Probashi’ app goes offline

Abdul (not his real name) paid for his Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET) clearance through the Ami Probashi app, completed all the necessary steps online, and was ready to board his flight to Saudi Arabia.
29 April 2025, 18:00 PM

The unspoken trauma of journalists

Journalists live through trauma, violence, and suffering while covering news.
28 April 2025, 02:00 AM

Failure to send 17,777 workers to KL: Recruiting agencies to blame

The Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment has told the High Court that recruiting agencies are responsible for the failure to send 17,777 Bangladeshi workers to Malaysia.
27 April 2025, 18:02 PM

Drops of water, waves of suffering

In the quiet village of Bottola, nestled in the hills of Rangamati’s Naniarchar upazila, each day begins early.
26 April 2025, 21:54 PM

WB finds mismatch in migration and remittance trends

While Saudi Arabia remains the top destination for Bangladeshi migrant workers, it is the United States (US) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that are leading in remittance contributions despite hosting comparatively smaller migrant populations.
24 April 2025, 18:00 PM

Essential commodities: Price spiral hits fixed-income families hard

Supply chain experts and consumer rights activists blame the absence of consistent market monitoring, dwindling supply of winter vegetables, and the end of VAT exemptions granted during Ramadan.
18 April 2025, 18:01 PM

Price hike of essentials: Poor, middle class in a tight corner

Harunur Rashid, a retired government employee, was taken aback by the steep price rise of okra at the capital’s Karwan Bazar yesterday.
11 October 2024, 18:07 PM

Many injured staring at bleak future

People are filled with hope for a better tomorrow with incoming reforms, but that is not the case for those who sacrificed their future for the fall of the Awami League regime. 
4 October 2024, 18:04 PM

Prices of egg, veggies go up

The prices of vegetables, chicken, and eggs have risen again in the capital’s kitchen markets after remaining almost stable for about a month.
27 September 2024, 18:02 PM

Anti-discrimination student movement: Citizens’ platform launched to help achieve goals

A 55-member Jatiya Nagorik Committee was formed yesterday to work towards fulfilling the goals of the Anti-discrimination Student Movement that toppled the Awami League-led government.
8 September 2024, 21:00 PM

Vacuum looms as teachers being coerced to quit

MA Malek, principal of Munshirhat College in Chandpur’s Matlab upazila, was on leave when he heard students were demonstrating for his resignation.
31 August 2024, 18:00 PM

Relief delivery is now the challenge

People wishing to distribute relief materials among the flood victims are finding it very difficult to reach remote areas due to a lack of boats.
26 August 2024, 18:00 PM

Flash floods: ‘We had no clue what was coming’

When Tuhin Rana heard last week that his remote village in Noakhali was being flooded, he called his parents and wife who just gave birth to a daughter and told them to stay safe.
25 August 2024, 18:00 PM

Millions cut off without food, power

Millions of people were still left without electricity and any means of communication, and relief materials had not reached many remote areas where families were stranded in flooded villages for days.
24 August 2024, 18:00 PM

‘It felt like living in a grave’

Mikel Changma, a political organiser of the United Peoples’ Democratic Front (UPDF), could not see daylight for about five years after being picked up by some plainclothes men April 9, 2019.
20 August 2024, 18:00 PM

Some relief in kitchen markets

Prices of daily essentials, aside from onions, have started falling in the capital’s kitchen markets over the last three days due to an increase in supply.
9 August 2024, 18:00 PM

Scenes from Shaheed Minar

Students from different public and private universities, colleges, and schools, started arriving in large processions to join the demonstration at Shaheed Minar.
3 August 2024, 14:14 PM

'Police killed my brother. Should we go to them for justice?'

Asks sister of 19-year-old Soikot who was shot in Mohammadpur
2 August 2024, 17:52 PM

Why isn’t father calling me?

4-year-old daughter of Priyo, who was shot dead on July 19, keeps asking
30 July 2024, 18:00 PM

Protest coordinators: Detention by DB unconstitutional

The Detective Branch’s picking up of key coordinators of the quota reform protest “for the sake of security” is unconstitutional, said two legal experts and an academician.
28 July 2024, 21:30 PM

Farhan Faiyaaz: A life we will remember

"One day, you'll leave this world behind. So live a life you will remember." -- Farhan Faiyaaz's Facebook profile bio..In a chilling video footage that went viral on Facebook on Thursday, a woman was seen breaking down at the sight of a body in Mohammadpur’s City Hospital
23 July 2024, 20:34 PM

Parts of Dhaka left charred

The six burnt cars that lie at the entrance to the Department of Disaster Management at Mohakhali can hardly give a sense of the scale of destruction inside the 11-storey building.
22 July 2024, 18:00 PM

Prepaid gas, electricity: Users suffer amid internet outage

Thousands of consumers across the nation are facing immense difficulties in getting their cards for prepaid electricity and gas meters recharged amid the ongoing internet outage and the curfew.
21 July 2024, 18:00 PM

DMCH morgue never been thicker with grief

The air at Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue was never this thick with grief before yesterday.
20 July 2024, 18:00 PM

A life we will remember

“One day, you’ll leave this world behind. So live a life you will remember.” -- Farhan Faiyaaz’s Facebook profile bio.
18 July 2024, 18:00 PM

BCL leaders beaten up, forced out of most DU halls overnight

Students make hall provosts sign notices banning politics in the halls
17 July 2024, 08:32 AM

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