Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Ariful Haque Choudhury stressed the need for accurate, disaggregated migration data, stronger national statistical systems.

The last time Sujan Mia talked with Sufia Akter, his expatriate mother in Saudi Arabia, was 25 days ago. “They are ruthlessly beating me,” Mia heard his 40-year-old mother saying amid weeping before ...

A Caritas volunteer, right, holds a phone from which a Bengali-speaking cultural mediator explains to a group of Bangladeshi migrants the terms of their expulsion order from southern Italy, Oct. 23, ...

The fact that Bangladesh continues to top the list of sea arrivals of migrants to Europe indicates that we have largely failed to nurture and capitalise on our demographic dividend—the youth.

But now, people can stay at home and work for foreign companies using digital technology. This is called “virtual migration.” ...

India wants to the border with Bangladesh badly — even if it takes venomous snakes or crocodiles.

The green Bangladeshi passport, once a symbol of hope and opportunity for millions seeking better lives abroad, has become a liability at immigration counters worldwide. What unfolds daily at airports ...

Dhaka's official position is that relations with India remain unaffected by state polls. With BJP already in power at the ...

I’m in Dhaka this week, where I have been doing some work between my long hours becoming intimate with the Bangladeshi capital’s epic traffic. The traffic here — an unholy tangle of rickshaws, ...

By Ashraful Haque Flash floods are a common occurrence in Bangladesh’s northeastern haor (shallow wetland ecosystem) region.