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  Bangladesh getting ready to take up outstanding issues with Mahathir govt

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 12:55am on May 20, 2018

  Bangladesh government’s preparations are underway to take up with the new Malaysian government of prime minister Mahathir bin Mohamad the outstanding issues relating to manpower...

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  Two lakh farmers facing certificate cases

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 12:05am on May 17, 2018

  About two lakh farmers across country are facing certificate cases for defaulting repayment of agricultural loans. The financial burden caused grave concern among the affected...

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  Creation of fund for workers’ migration demanded

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 02:42am on May 16, 2018

  Returnee migrant workers from several districts on Tuesday demanded creation of a fund during national budget making to facilitate workers’ migration at government costs....

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  Remote districts fall behind for info gap

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 12:06am on May 12, 2018

  Due to lack of information, people of the remote districts from the capital fall behind in picking up overseas jobs although the government has decided...

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  Recruiting agencies extorting illegal fees: caucus of MPs

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 12:05am on May 08, 2018

  A syndicate of recruiting agencies made migration of Bangladeshi workers to Malaysia costlier under the much trumpeted government to government plus mechanism for recruitments, according...

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  Bangladeshi workers with valid documents made targets

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 12:53am on May 06, 2018

  Qatar made Bangladeshi workers with valid documents the targets of crackdown against undocumented expatriates over the last two weeks, said migrant rights activists as well...

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  Bangladeshi workers returning from Qatar empty handed

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 12:14am on May 05, 2018

  Frequently losing jobs in Qatar Bangladeshi workers are forced to return home before expiry of contacts empty handed....

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  70 Bangladeshi workers lose jobs in Qatar

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 12:36am on April 29, 2018

  At least 70 Bangladeshi workers, who were recruited by a Doha based cleaning company, are leading inhuman life for over six months since losing their...

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  Boro harvest continues in haor belt amid labourer scarcity

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 12:12am on April 23, 2018

  Boro rice harvest in the haor belt continues amid severe scarcity of farm hands, Department of Agricultural Extension officials told New Age. A grower has...

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  Cases pile up, victims get no redress

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 01:05am on April 21, 2018

  None of the over 3,500 cases filed under the counter-trafficking law across the country has so far been disposed of, leaving trafficking victims and their...