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With Bangladeshi expatriates across the globe playing a major role in the growth of country’s economy through sending remittances, the government has devised double-pronged plans to augment sending more workers abroad and hence increasing the flow of remittances.As part of the government&rsquo...
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An uncertainty griped over the arrival of a Malaysian delegation to Bangladesh as a syndicate of different recruiting agencies were spreading rumour on the hiring of workers from country, said sources. Although, Malaysian government showed their interest on hiring labours from Bangladesh, a syndicat...
A delegation from Malaysia is due to visit Dhaka on November 24 to meet the government at a Joint Working Meeting to work out on their commitment to hire Bangladeshi workers under certain conditions. Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Imran Ahmed said, “The Mahathir government has agreed...
Following various initiatives undertaken by the government, new labour markets are opening up for Bangladesh in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Japan and Malaysia. However, experts commented that progress made through G2G, transforming people into public resource, closing down human trafficking ...
Migrant experts believe that the issuing of licenses to agencies in an unmonitored fashion, lack of skilled migrating workers with qualifications, and the lack of jobs is forcing migrants workforce to be deported from Saudi Arabia.Migration Expert Asif Munir told Bangladesh Post, “It is said t...
The number of death of expatriate female domestic helps in Middle Eastern countries is increasing alarmingly, creating great concern over their workplace condition. Questions is being raised from different strata of society about where we are sending our female citizens to earn some money.It has bee...
Under the initiative of China, the government is going to form a committee comprising of representatives from BD, China, Japan, Myanmar, NGOs and the Rohingyas aiming at resolving the Rohingya crisis as soon as possible, sources said. Minister for Disaster Management and Relief Enamur Rahman said, t...
The return of Bangladeshi workers from different countries has recently been increasing as most of these countries are cracking down on workers without legal documents. Besides, there are two main reasons for the return of workers--- voluntary and forced. Data on forced return is usually collected b...
Village courts or informal courts are becoming widely popular as it pursues quick disposal of complaints through local level arbitration without delaying or involving huge expenditures. Already introduced in 1080 unions of Bangladesh, the informal courts are playing significant roles in ensuring jus...
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The UK Government’s International Development Minister Baroness Sugg announced a further £30 million of UK aid support, on top of the UK’s recent pledge of £87 million to the Rohingya crisis. Baroness Sugg paid tribute to all those working tirelessly to support the Rohingyas ...
Many of the dairy products and various meats are being adulterated with harmful chemicals by unscrupulous traders for huge profits.The dairy products like milk, eggs, cheese, butter and poultry as well as fish and meat are found to be adulterated by highly health damaging chemicals, recent laborator...
Garments factory owners are increasingly introducing robotics and auto machines in the Ready Made Garments (RMG) industry which may generate labour unrest in the country. However, the experts believe that would not be a major concern as the automation would ensure quality and cost effective producti...
Bangladeshis workers have adaptation capacity to cope up with foreign culture, they can do any job abroad, experts say. However, Japanese authorities have excluded Bangladeshis from its list of manpower recruiting countries’ as what Japan terms- ‘Bangladeshi workers don’t have mann...
Bangladesh has decided in principle to share 1.82 cusec of water of the river Feni with India. If India withdraws water from Bangladesh river Feni, there will be no adverse impact on environment of the country, experts said.Talking to Bangladesh Post, senior member of Joint River Commission(JRC) Eng...
The ideology of the great Liberation War was foiled through the assassination of the Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, while the nation lost everything, and Bangladesh lost all possibilities.Immediately after the August 15 barbaric killing, two intrinsic tenets like 'socia...
The government has taken various initiatives to train and protect the migrant workers of the country.The initiatives will—reduce dependency on broker, confirm migrant workers visa, sending through agencies directly and others. Through digitalisation, the initiatives will also ensure migra...
Five ministries including Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology are working to get Bangladesh enlisted in the list of countries from where Japan is taking skilled manpower.Japan is looking for skilled workers of 14 categories so Bangladesh can reap the benefits of this by ...
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Transport workers are allegedly charging excessive fare from the home bound passengers ahead of Eid-ul-Adha, despite deployment of additional vigilance by the law enforcers at bus stops in city and elsewhere. Passengers belonging to the poor, middle class and lower-middle class group are facing seri...
The misery of the country’s flood-affected people of the northern region is going to end as people are starting preparations for the return journey, after flood situation improved during last two days due to gradual deceasing of water levels in major rivers. During the time, water levels of a ...
The government is all set to introduce biometric attendance device at every government primary school within this month in order to ensure cent percent presence of teachers.The presence will be ensured through the fingerprint of the concerned teachers at the primary school whereas upazila primary ed...
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