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Sixty-one Bangladeshis, who returned home Sunday after nearly four months in Sri Lankan detention camps, described their experience of spending 24 days adrift at sea on a broken-down boat, without food or water.

KATHMANDU: Suicide among Nepali migrant workers has increased by 12.96 per cent in the last nine months.

Sixty-one Bangladeshis, who were in Sri Lankan detention camps for four months after being picked up by that country’s navy in February, were scheduled to be brought back from Colombo around Sunday noon.

Promising to engage with trade unions on their demands, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today urged them, as well as the industry, to focus on discussions for the welfare of migrant and domestic workers working in unsafe conditions.

Bangladesh immigration authorities are not very strict about following rules and regulations on labour immigration, observed a team that recently visited the Philippines.

May 17, 2013 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's post-war economic revival and tightening labour markets are throwing up opportunities for workers from abroad, including those who had left the island, business and state officials said.

Female Bangladeshi migrant workers are tortured and sexually harassed while working as maids abroad in countries including Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Dubai.

Chennai, May 15 (PTI) The Tamil Nadu government today announced a new scheme to provide primary education to children of migrant workers residing in the state.