Workers’ skills, migration on separate tracks
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More than seven in 10 outbound workers leave Bangladesh without any training, according to a study, and experts say the problem goes beyond the capacity of technical training centres (TTCs).
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US war on Iran tanks workers’ migration
2 October 2026
The number of Bangladeshis approved to take up jobs in 10 major overseas markets fell nearly 35 percent in the first nine months of the year on the back of a slump in Saudi-bound recruitment, along with other traditional Gulf markets, due to the US-Israel war on Iran.
2 October 2026
Crackdown on teen gangs to go nationwide
1 October 2026
After a series of violent incidents heightened concerns over public safety, law enforcers are stepping up drives against teen gangs and other criminal networks. They are also targeting the influential people behind such groups.
1 October 2026
Jobs in Malaysia: Demand letters attested, rules still unclear
30 September 2026
The Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur has begun attesting job-demand letters for Bangladeshi workers, even though the recruitment process remains opaque, with no formal government announcement yet on the mechanism, costs or departure timeline.
30 September 2026
Biman buying 10 Airbus planes: Aviation minister
30 September 2026
Biman expects four Airbus A350-900s, six A320neos; 13 Boeing 787-10s, two 787-9s, and ten 737 Max8s in 2030's
30 September 2026
Biman bets big with 11 more Boeing jets
25 September 2026
Biman Bangladesh Airlines has ordered 11 more jets, taking its Boeing order book to 25 aircraft and pushing ahead with the biggest fleet expansion in its history, as negotiations continue for 10 Airbus planes.
25 September 2026
Cox’s Bazar International Airport set for October launch
24 September 2026
But uncertainty remains over which airlines to operate int’l flights
24 September 2026
Limited banking access proposed for Rohingyas to check hundi risks
22 September 2026
An intelligence report has proposed allowing selected Rohingya families to open controlled bank accounts to divert hundi remittances into formal channels and curb their misuse for crime and terror financing.
22 September 2026
Yaba smuggling: Drug dealers turn to new tactics to dodge police
As drives to clamp down on narcotics trade intensify, drug dealers are developing innovative techniques and finding new routes to dodge arrest.
29 October 2022
Rohingya refugee camps: Killings on the rise, gangs on the prowl
Rohingya crime gangs have resorted to murder, abduction and extortion to establish their supremacy at Cox’s Bazar refugee camps and control drug trades.
28 October 2022
Online card game: Indian firm facilitates illegal gambling
An Indian company sold virtual poker chips in Bangladesh and took the lion’s share of Tk 168 crore out of the country, a CTTC investigation found.
24 October 2022
Yaba flowing in despite conflicts in Myanmar
There have been conflicts on the Myanmar side over the last two months with sounds of heavy gunfire and mortal shelling sending a wave of panic across the border into Bangladesh. But it has hardly created any impact on the yaba smuggling.
21 October 2022
Drug traffickers prowl Naf in the guise of fishermen
Drug traffickers posing as fishermen are smuggling in stashes of yaba pills from Myanmar through the Naf river in Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar, amid lax enforcement of a ban on fishing in the river, according to several intelligence officials and men involved in the trade.
21 October 2022
In pursuit of better life, they go off the rails
To change their fortunes, three Bangladeshis went abroad, after handing over all their savings to a transnational trafficking syndicate.
17 October 2022
Rohingya man narrates 16 days’ ordeal on route of trafficking
A transnational syndicate is using a new land route through Myanmar to traffic people, mostly Rohingyas from refugee camps in Bangladesh, to Thailand and Malaysia.
13 October 2022
Earning crores by breaching govt system
It only costs Tk 2,000 to get the username and password of an administrator of the Surokkha website/app, which is used to register for Covid jabs and verify vaccination status.
11 October 2022
Work as public servants, not party activists
Amid allegations of bias, the Election Commission yesterday asked the deputy commissioners and superintendents of police to perform their election duties impartially.
8 October 2022
Human trafficking cases: Only 1.5pc see conviction
Seven years ago, Mohammad Sabuj and his neighbour Mohiuddin Sarkar from Cumilla’s Daudkandi paid around Tk 13 lakh to six people who lured them with well-paying jobs in Germany.
8 October 2022
Back to yaba biz after weathering the storm
Shah Azam, 28, a yaba godfather of Teknaf, surrendered to police on February 16, 2019, promising to leave the drug business and never engage in the trade again. He was sent to jail at the time and released in November 2020.
2 October 2022
Ansar al Islam: It’s helping men to flee abroad to collect funds
To collect funds, increase organisational strength, and avoid arrest, Al-Qaeda-inspired militant outfit Ansar Al Islam is now sending its permanent members abroad.
29 September 2022
Ansar al Islam resurgence: ‘NRBs funding reorganisation’
Ansar al Islam, which claims to be the Bangladesh chapter of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, has received about Tk 1.5 crore in the last three and half years from people in the UK and Australia for its operational activities as the militant outfit looks to stage a comeback.
29 September 2022
7 Missing youths: Drawn into extremism by some professionals
A government employee, schoolteachers, doctors and imams were found to have links with seven youths who ran away from their Cumilla homes last month, said CTTC and Rab officials.
27 September 2022
TikTok stays
Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology has recently dismissed a parliamentary standing committee’s recommendation for closing down TikTok in the country.
23 September 2022
Gunshots now heard from Ukhiya
As firing and mortar shelling in Myanmar were now heard from Ukhiya border of Cox’s Bazar yesterday, the local authorities warned the boat owners of not carrying Rohingyas amid fear of their fresh entry.
20 September 2022
Tensions in Ghumdhum: 300 families ‘to be moved’
Amid incessant gunfire and mortar shelling in Myanmar close to the Bangladesh border, the local administration is planning to evacuate around 300 families in Ghumdhum union of Bandarban’s Naikhongchhari upazila.
18 September 2022
Tensions on Myanmar border: Panicked, locals scramble to safety
Thirty-year-old Noor Hasina lives in a house in Konarpara along the Tambru border in Bandarban’s Naikhongchhari upazila.
18 September 2022
‘Trying for peaceful repatriation’
Amid fears of fresh entry of Rohingyas into Bangladesh, following the continuous assaults by the Myanmar military against the Arakan Army along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in the past few weeks, the government has said they are trying to repatriate Rohingyas peacefully.
15 September 2022
Spectre of fresh Rohingya influx looms
The Myanmar military’s continuous air and ground assaults against the Arakan Army (AA) along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in the past few weeks have triggered fears of fresh entry of Rohingyas into the country.
15 September 2022