Migrants
US revokes legal status of migrants who used Biden-era app
The latest orders could affect more than 930,000 migrants
9 April 2025, 03:29 AM
28 migrants found dead in Libya mass grave
It said the grave was found after a raid on a human trafficking site
10 February 2025, 05:06 AM
Trump to prepare facility at Guantanamo for 30,000 migrants
US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, already houses a migrant facility - separate from the high-security US prison for foreign terrorism suspects
30 January 2025, 06:25 AM
UK bolsters fight against migrant crossings
The interior ministry added that the government also aims over the next six months to achieve the highest rate of deportations of failed asylum seekers for five years.
21 August 2024, 09:53 AM
We need skilled workers for higher remittance
Potential there, political will needed
14 February 2023, 10:47 AM
Trapped in the ‘Game Ghor’
Nuruzzaman Raju owned a mobile phone repair shop in the capital’s Gulistan.
16 December 2022, 18:00 PM
Qatar evicts hundreds of migrant workers as World Cup looms
Qatari authorities have evicted hundreds of migrant workers from buildings in central Doha, casting a new shadow over the countdown to the World Cup, residents and workers said on Saturday.
29 October 2022, 13:21 PM
46 dead migrants found inside truck in Texas
The bodies of 46 dead migrants were discovered inside a tractor-trailer on Monday in San Antonio, Texas, city officials said, in one of the most deadly recent incidents of human smuggling along the US-Mexico border.
28 June 2022, 02:32 AM
162 Bangladeshi migrants return home from Libya
As many as 162 Bangladeshi migrants – who were in various detention centres in Libya -- have returned home this morning (May 12, 2022).
12 May 2022, 10:00 AM
Identify all undocumented migrants from Bangladesh: Jammu and Kashmir High Court
India’s Jammu and Kashmir High Court has given six weeks to the authorities to identify migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar who are illegally staying in the federally-ruled territory.
7 April 2022, 07:51 AM
How refugees, migrants and climate change are related
At the global level there has been a recent set of decisions in the different fora dealing with refugees, migrants and climate change to bring the three issues together and plan better so that we can avoid potential future crisis.
12 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Male migrants' remittance drops 11pc
Annual per capita remittance from the male migrants has fallen by 11 percent in 2017 compared to that in 2014, says a new study.
30 October 2018, 18:00 PM
23 migrants dead, 700 rescued in Mediterranean: Italian coastguard
Rescuers pulled 700 boat migrants to safety in the Mediterranean and found 23 bodies during one operation on Friday, an Italian coastguard spokesman says, the second loss of multiple lives recorded in the area so far.
4 November 2017, 04:24 AM
Case for overcoming the ostrich syndrome
The final week of May 2016 was a grisly one. More than 700 asylum seekers and migrants died as three boats attempting to carry them to Italy sunk in the Mediterranean, and the death toll for the year crossed 2000.
19 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Norway teaches migrants about Western women
Should Western relationship norms be taught to migrants? The BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme attended a controversial class in Norway that aims to teach asylum seekers how to interact with women.
8 June 2016, 03:56 AM
Refugees and migrants: A crisis of solidarity
This is not a crisis of numbers; it is a crisis of solidarity. Almost 90 percent of the world's refugees are hosted in developing countries. Eight countries host more than half the world's refugees. Just ten countries provide 75 percent of the UN's budget to ease and resolve their plight.
9 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Demand to hike budget for migrants, their families
Activists have demanded that the government increase budgetary allocation for migrants and their families in the upcoming national budget of 2016-17.
9 May 2016, 06:04 AM
Migrant crisis: 'Many Somalis' feared drowned in Mediterranean
Many people are feared drowned after a boat carrying up to 400 mainly Somali migrants capsized in the Mediterranean off the coast of Egypt.
18 April 2016, 11:33 AM
Bangladeshi expats in Libya asked to remain cautious
Bangladesh mission in Tripoli has asked its nationals living in Libya to remain alert amid the rise of violence in the war-torn North African country.
28 March 2016, 11:26 AM
Italy rescues 910 boat migrants in the Strait of Sicily
Nearly 600 migrants mostly from sub-Saharan African countries and Bangladesh are rescued by Libyan coast guards.
20 March 2016, 04:42 AM