Another batch of 105 Bangladeshis returned home from India through the Benapole checkpost on Friday morning. They are undergoing a 14-day quarantine at a Benapole hotel at their own expense. They returned with NOC from the Deputy High Commission of Bangladesh in Kolkata. Meanwhile, 21 Indians have returned to their country from Bangladesh. Many patients and students went to India before Bangladesh announced a 14-day border closure with the neighbouring country. A Samad, a passenger from India, said the border closure should have been announced at least a day earlier. “It’d have saved us a lot of trouble at the border,” he said. Ahsan Habib, officer-in-charge Benapole Immigration, said people with special permits from the high commission are being allowed to cross the border. In the last four days, 810 Bangladeshis have returned home from India through Benapole, according to officials.

Fifteen among the 300 Bangladeshis who got stranded in India's Petrapole land port returned home  on Tuesday morning through Benapole checkpost.  They entered the country after receiving  NOC from the Deputy High Commission office of Bangladesh in Kolkata. They will be put on a14-day quarantine at a residential hotel in Benapole after completion of formalities.  Also read: Liquid oxygen import from India suspended at Benapole Ahsan Habib, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Benapole Immigration, said he have already received a letter to stop immigration for 14 days. The 15 Bangladeshis were allowed to return as they got special permission from Bangladesh Deputy High Commission in Kolkata, he said. It was reported on Monday that around 300 Bangladeshis were stranded in India's Petrapole land port following Bangladesh government's decision to  close the border with India due to a huge surge in Covid-19 cases in the neighbouring country. Most of the Bangladeshis stranded there were either  patients or students. They said the border closure should have been announced a few days earlier.  Also read: Bangladesh-India transboundary river dying due to graft in ... However, import and export activities  are normal at Benapole port.   Matiar Rahman, director of the India-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce, said that disinfectants are not being sprayed on Indian trucks inside the port. The port authorities have not taken any  initiative to sanitize them.  Besides, Indian truck drivers are moving freely at Benapole market, putting local people at risk, he added. Abdul Jalil, acting director of Benapole Land Port, said there were no restrictions on trade activities  between the two countries and.  instructions have been given to keep all activities normal at the port in compliance with hygiene rules.

Five Bangladesh citizens, released after nine months in Yemen's custody, will be arriving home on Sunday.

Bangladesh has sought urgent action from Qatar to help Bangladeshis return to the country and join work  highlighting the difficulties including financial distress being faced by the stranded Bangladeshis.

Forty-two Bangladeshis, including women and children, returned home through the Shewla border on Monday after serving different terms in an Indian prison.

A total of 162 Bangladeshis, who were stranded in Singapore due to the shutdown over coronavirus outbreak, returned home on a special flight on Tuesday. 

135 more Bangladeshi nationals who got stuck in India due to coronavirus lockdown returned home through Benapole check post on Wednesday morning.

A total of 288 Bangladeshi nationals returned home from Oman on Friday evening.

 Seventy-four Bangladeshi nationals, who got stuck in India, returned home through Benapole check-post under a special arrangement on Wednesday.   The body of a Bangladeshi was also brought back.   Ahsan Kabir, officer-in-charge of Benapole Immigration, said these people went to India for treatment and travel purposes and got stuck when the Indian government declared shutdown till May 3.   Sunil Das, a returnee, said he went to Chennai for treatment two months ago.   Puluk Kumar Mandal, Sharsha Upazila Nirbahi Officer, said 477 people have so far returned from India since April 6 and they were kept in quarantine at Benapole Municipality Biye Bari and a madrasha on Jahore-Benapole Highway.