Bahrain citizens have complained about hundreds of people that visit the Bangladesh Embassy in Ghufool every day, it has been reported. The Gulf Daily News said as many as 200 people visit the embassy – which is located in a residential area – on a daily basis, and that neighbours are complaining it disrupts their lives. They claim the neighbourhood has become overrun by illegal taxi drivers and trucks dropping people off and picking them up, the newspaper reported. One Bahraini resident is quote...

Residents in Newham have celebrated Bangladesh Independence Day. They across the borough came together yesterday to celebrate Bangladesh Independence Day. A service was held at East Ham Town Hall where residents raised the flag of Bangladesh and sang the country’s national anthem. Councillors including Rohima Rahman and Obaid Khan also attended the event. Community activist, Sarwar E Alam said: “It was a great day, Residents across Newham have paid their rich tributes to millions of martyrs who had sacrificed their lives in the Liberatio...

A 25-year old Bangladeshi national, Shaheen Mia, was reportedly stabbed to death in a Malé café in the Maldives during early hours on Sunday (March 22). Approximately 4:00am on Sunday, masked men dragged Shaheen Mia out from his workplace, Lhiyanu Café, in Malé’s western harbour district and stabbed him in the chest. Shaheen used to work and sleep in the café. According to local media, a violent confrontation had taken place between Lhiyanu Café staff and a group of young men in the early hours of Saturday (21 March) when the exp...

Two Bangladeshi workers kidnapped nearly three weeks ago by gunmen in Libya have been freed and are in good health, officials say. The Bangladeshi foreign ministry said the two men were now safe in hospital in the city of Sirte. They were seized on 6 March from the al-Ghani oil field along with seven other foreigners. Islamic State militants were suspected of carrying out the abductions, but this has not been confirmed. Helal Uddin and Mohammed Anwar Hossain were freed on Tuesday evening, officials in ...

Kidnapped Bangladeshi labourer in Libya, Helal Uddin talked to his family over the phone on Tuesday. He was kidnapped by unknown group of militants on March 6. Hellal’s voice was not clear in the phone call, it seemed that he was crying or shocked. He told his wife while gasping, “I heard them talking about my release. They might release me in two or three days.” The phone call came as a surprise for everyone in the family. Hellal had no contact what so ever for the last 18 days. His whereabouts were unkn...