June2017

News Hour: India’s diabetes epidemic is shifting, with the disease now increasingly common among people from low socio-economic backgrounds living in urban areas of the more affluent states, according to a study published in The Lancet...

News Hour: Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday backed Mexico to press for a successful renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement with Donald Trump, thanking its government for keeping German interests in mind during...

News Hour: Tiger Woods told police he had taken the anti-anxiety drug Xanax when he was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of an intoxicant in Florida last month, golf.channel.com reported on its website...

News Hour: Today the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of US$5 million from the Government of the People’s Republic of China to provide food assistance to 160,000 people affected by acute...

News Hour: Novartis announced it has entered into a clinical research collaboration in which Bristol-Myers Squibb will investigate the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of Mekinist (trametinib) in combination with Opdivo (nivolumab) and Opdivo + Yervoy (ipilimumab)...

News Hour: Since 2013, the Greater South of Madagascar (“Grand Sud”) has been experiencing a prolonged drought and below-average rainfalls, affecting 1.8 million people. National disaster risk management experts and representatives of the development cooperation community...

News Hour: At this year’s Build 2017, Microsoft’s annual developer conference held in Seattle, USA, Satya Nadella announced that Windows had reached 500 million Windows 10 monthly active devices. At the conference, Microsoft also shared the...

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed today agreements in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, with leading commercial banks to support Inner Mongolia Saikexing Breeding and Biotechnology Group (Saikexing) to reduce environmental pollution, improve food safety, and...

News Hour: On the occasion World Environment Day, Grameenphone has launched a ‘Mobile Handset Recycling’ campaign at its Farmgate GPC. Md. Raisul Alam Mondal, Director-General, Department of Environment, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, inaugurated...

News Hour: Considering the rising HIV epidemic among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Dhaka, Save the Children introduced one-stop-services through comprehensive drop-in-centers (DICs) to reverse the trend. In this process, PWID is tested for HIV....