The 64 Bangladeshi migrants stranded on Mediterranean Sea agreed to return home, Chiranjib Sarker, director general (DG) of the consular wing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says.

Bangladesh Ambassador to Libya Sheikh Sekander Ali made a journey on the Mediterranean Sea, around 10 kilometres off the Tunisian coast of Zarzis, to convince 64 Bangladeshi migrants to return to Bangladesh.

Bangladesh Ambassador to Libya Sheikh Sekander Ali has urged stranded Bangladeshi migrants at Mediterranean to return home.

Bangladesh should have an effective reintegration programme for the returnee migrants to ensure their social and economic well-being, say migration and development experts.

Thousands of Bangladeshis are facing risks of arrest and deportation from Malaysia as its rehiring programme, launched two years ago to legalise undocumented workers, ends today.

Bangladeshi recruiting agencies have welcomed the Malaysian government's move to suspend the 10 companies tasked with hiring Bangladeshi workers.

They have been held hostage in Libya and tortured brutally by fellow Bangladeshis. Video clips of their sufferings have then been sent to their relatives by members of the network here asking for ransom.

After intense negotiations, Bangladesh and the European Union have finalised a draft agreement on the modalities on the return of irregular Bangladeshi migrants from 28 EU countries.

Around 2,000 Bangladeshis, mostly migrants from Iran, Lebanon and Jordan, got stuck in Turkey as their attempts to illegally enter

Hundreds of Bangladeshi migrants, most of them undocumented, in Malaysia are thronging Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur every day for obtaining their passports, birth certificates and other necessary documents to become legal in the Southeast Asian country.

The older of two sons of a Bangladesh-origin couple in California charged with murdering their parents at their home said he shot his father multiple times, but he did not shoot his mother, according to police.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee says her government would urge the federal Indian administration to give citizenship to all Bangladeshis living in the state for five years or more.

The European Court of Human Rights is to consider a complaint submitted by 42 Bangladeshi migrants in Greece over the country's alleged violation of human rights, the Greek Council for Refugees (GCR) has said in a press release.

Amnesty International said Bangladeshi migrants and persecuted Rohingya fleeing Myanmar faced "hellish" conditions on trafficking boats.

Twenty seven Bangladeshis, who survived after two boats capsized off Libyan coast on August 24, are to return home on Saturday.

A total of 27 Bangladeshis, who survived after two boats capsized off Libyan coast on August 24, may return home on September 17.

A court in the southern Thai island of Phuket acquits two journalists of defaming the navy and breaching the Computer Crimes Act.

Three children are in a critical condition after being rescued from a lorry in Austria that contained 26 migrants from Bangladesh, Syria and Afghanistan.

At least 70 people are estimated to have died at sea on ships abandoned in May this year from starvation, dehydration, disease and abuse by the crews, says UN refugee agency.

A total of 159 Bangladeshi human trafficking victims, who were rescued by Myanmar’s Navy, cannot be brought back to Bangladesh today.