Front Page
0 1 min read

Expatriate Welfare Minister’s tour of UAE, Qatar, Oman

block

Staff Reporter  :
State Minister for Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Shofiqur Rahman Chowdhury on Friday left the country for a seven-day official visit to three Middle Eastern countries on a bid to boost manpower export there.

The state minister’s visit will be started from United Arab Emirates and then he will be in Qatar, and Oman to expand the Middle East labour markets of the Bangladeshi manpower and address several issues related on it.

During the visit, the state minister is scheduled to participate in some separate meetings in Dubai, UAE. He will meet with members of the Dubai Business Council.

He will also meet with Bangladeshis working in Dubai, according to a media release from the ministry.

block

Shofiqur will be present as chief guest at the Remittance Award-2023 organised by the Bangladesh Embassy in Dubai on Saturday.

The state minister will make a courtesy call on Qatar’s Minister of Labour Ali bin Samikh Al Marri on May 27. He will also meet with Bangladeshi businessmen based in Qatar on the same day. He will also meet with Bangladeshi workers and community leaders, the release said.

He will hold a courtesy call on Oman’s Labour Minister Dr Mahad bin Said bin Ali Baawain.He will also meet with the Bangladeshi business committee in Oman.
The state minister will return home on May 31.

block
Related

Flood situation worsens in north, northeast

Special Correspondent : The flood situation in the northern and northeastern regions of the country has deteriorated as the meteorological department predicts extremely heavy rainfall in the upstream areas over the next five days. As a result, residents of districts such as Kurigram, Lalmonirhat, Nilphamari, Rangpur, Gaibandha, Jamalpur, Sirajganj, Sylhet, Sunamganj, Habiganj, Moulvibazar, and Netrokona will face short-term flooding. Experts warn that Bangladesh is likely to experience a major flood by mid-July. Meanwhile, the West Bengal government has declared a...

Graft in AB: 3 officials chargesheeted

Staff Reporter : The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a chargesheet against four individuals, including three current and former officials of Agrani Bank’s Agrabad corporate branch in Chattogram, over the alleged misappropriation of Tk3.45 crore from a city corporation fund. The accused are former officer of Agrani Bank Agrabad Branch (Clear Section) RafiqUddin Koraishi, Principal Officer Shubham Dewan, former Principal Officer Gazi Arifur Rahman, and a Brahmanbaria local, Suman Mia, according to the chargesheet filed in April this year with...

Cash aid cut for export: Businesses see as ‘choking to death’

Staff Reporter : Businesses are expressing concerns over the government’s latest decision to cut cash incentives on 43 export goods, terming it as “gagging the export sector to death.” They fear this move will diminish their competitive capacity in the global market. The export sector in Bangladesh is already facing multiple challenges both domestically and internationally. The recent decision by Bangladesh Bank to reduce export subsidies for almost all sectors by 20 to 50 percent aims to alleviate pressure on...