The government has taken initiatives to send workers to six new countries as part of its efforts to export manpower to alternative labour markets.

Saudi Arabia has deported 5,594 Bangladeshi migrant workers, including 300 women, in the last one and a half months, according to Brac Migration Programme.

A worker is killed in a landslide while extracting stone illegally at a quarry in Sylhet's Companiganj upazila, police say.