Govt urged to ensure proper screening as manpower cheats get active Bangladesh embassy in Libya has asked for stringent government measures so that illegal manpower syndicates cannot send jobseekers to that country. The embassy sought such steps as it learnt that illegal syndicates have become active to send Bangladeshi workers to Egypt and Sudan ... Read more
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Rebels siege Gaddafi’s compound
His ‘arrested’ son seen in Tripoli Rebels overran Muammar Gaddafi’s compound in Tripoli Tuesday, raising their flag and ripping the head off his statue as they celebrated a symbolic, if not yet real, end to the strongman’s iron-fisted 42-year rule. The streets of Tripoli erupted into celebratory gunfire when news spread that the insurgents had ... Read more
Bangladeshis caught in troubled Libya
Around 450 workers held ‘hostage’ by anti-govt demonstrators; 15 hurt in attack on construction site At least 15 Bangladeshi workers were injured as rioters stormed a South Korean construction site about 30 kilometres west of Tripoli while around 450 others were reportedly taken hostage in the port city of Darnah. The raid on the worksite ... Read more