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  Bangladeshi workers continue to get trafficked

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 01:01am on May 31, 2020

  The rackets of human traffickers still remain active in Bangladesh in the guise of manpower brokers or travel agents as they continue to allure migrant...

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  Higher budget share stressed for agriculture to ensure food security

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 12:09am on May 31, 2020

  The ongoing coronavirus pandemic continues to affect the country’s agriculture sector hampering food productions and causing losses to farmers, said officials. Economists and agricultural experts...

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  Price fall frustrates onion growers

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 12:56am on May 22, 2020

  The decreasing prices of onion are frustrating growers in Bangladesh as they are forced to sell their crop at prices Tk 30 lower a kilogram...

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  Kuwait to lay off 6 lakh workers

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 12:45am on May 20, 2020

  The Kuwait government has decided to lay off 6 lakh foreign workers, including Bangladeshis, to replace their jobs with the Kuwaitis, according to a report...

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  400 undocumented Bangladesh nationals arrested in Malaysia

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 10:26pm on May 15, 2020

  The Malaysian authorities have arrested over 400 undocumented Bangladeshi migrant workers in separate crackdowns launched since the beginning of this month, said Malaysia-based...

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  Over 40,000 Bangladeshis may be legalised in Bahrain

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 01:03am on May 12, 2020

  Over 40,000 undocumented Bangladeshi migrants have been in the process of being legalised in Bahrain under its ongoing general amnesty that began since early this...

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  Bangladeshis languish in Kuwait camps

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 12:16am on May 04, 2020

  Several thousands of the Bangladeshi migrant workers who were stranded in many labour camps in Kuwait for deportation under a general amnesty have been passing...

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  Bangladeshi migrants face deportation, loss of jobs, food crisis

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 04:01pm on May 01, 2020

  Thousands of Bangladeshi migrant workers are passing days in deep crisis abroad as they are facing forced repatriation, loss of jobs, limited access to foods...

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  1 lakh jobless migrants return in one month

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 12:45am on April 27, 2020

  Over one lakh Bangladeshi workers returned home jobless in one month amid the outbreak of novel coronavirus globally, according to a government estimate. Expatriates welfare...

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  50pc boro harvested in haor belt: DAE

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 10:08am on April 26, 2020

  Farmers have harvested over 50 per cent of their boro paddy in the country’s haor belt amid severe shortage of seasonal farm labourers, according to...