According to central bank records, remittances worth Tk 13.09 billion (Tk 1,309 crore) came into the country in the first seven months of this year. This is slightly more than the remittances that came into the country in the first seven months of last year. In the same period last year, remittances worth Tk 12.89 […]
The US Embassy in Dhaka registered a case at Gulshan Police Station over the incident. After this, the police have arrested a person named Mohammad Ruhul Amin, owner of a travel agency in Paltan area of the capital, and his associate Akalima Akhtar alias Beauty. The Cyber and Special Crime Unit of the Detective Branch […]
No details were given about the nationality or status of those rescued. In June, an overcrowded fishing trawler carrying 750 people evacuated from Libya sank near Greece. According to Greek figures, about 100 of them were saved, but it is believed that about 600 people drowned. In recent years thousands of migrants, mostly from Syria, […]
Cyprus police on Monday rescued 18 Syrian migrants after their boat capsized about 3.5 miles off the southeast coast of the Mediterranean island nation. Police said 11 men, three unidentified minors, a woman and her three children had sailed from Tartus, Syria, and were brought ashore on a police patrol ship. The official Cyprus News […]
case 1: Salman, (not his real name) is a 38-year-old man originally from Sylhet, Bangladesh, who has taken the hard way as a beach vendor in Palermo, Italy. He recounts his tumultuous journey from Bangladesh to Italy in 2015. “I played the ‘game’,” Salman explains, using the term Bangladeshi migrants often use for smuggling trips […]
At least two Tunisians, including a child, were killed and five others were missing after their Europe-bound boat capsized off the northeastern coast of the North African country on Saturday, the Coast Guard said. The vessel carrying 20 Tunisians capsized 120 meters (395 feet) off the beach in Gabes at 2:00 am (0100 GMT), a […]
Migrant deaths have risen in recent years as thousands try to cross the Mediterranean in the hope of finding a better life in war-torn or poverty-stricken Europe. The central Mediterranean migrant route from North Africa to Europe is the world’s deadliest route with more than 20,000 deaths since 2014, according to the International Organization for […]
It also sent thousands of soldiers and police officers to reinforce border guard patrols at the height of the crisis, built a steel wall along the border and approved legislation forcing migrants back into Belarus. Wasik said the situation “isn’t as chaotic today as it was two years ago”. According to Praga, 19,000 migrants have […]
Bangladeshis who have cases against them for fleeing their place of work (hurob), whose work permits (iqama) have expired and who have applied to return to Bangladesh often have to wait for months to get permission to leave Bangladesh. Have to wait. said a press release issued by the consulate on Sunday. Most of the […]
He made the appeal at a press briefing after chairing an inter-ministerial meeting at the ministry on plans to evacuate Bangladeshis from Sudan. Alam said some Bangladeshis, now living in Sudan, may consider staying back in the war-torn African country or moving to another country, but “it will not be easy for them”. “As the […]
At the end of the mass the Pope prayed for “the distressed Ukrainian people and the Russian people” and for “a future of hope, not war, a future filled with cradles not graves, a world of brothers and sisters, not walls and barricades”. University student Levante Kiss, 21, who was among the crowd, welcomed the […]
Bangladesh receives $960 million in remittances in two weeks
