July2017

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Board of Directors has approved a $150 million loan to help improve the reliability and efficiency of Nepal’s electricity supply and distribution through the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA). ADB...

News Hour: The UN Migration Agency (IOM) joined InterAction’s 2017 Forum bringing leading professionals from international development and humanitarian to Washington, D.C., on 20–22 June. InterAction is the US’s largest consortium of Non-Governmental Organizations focused on...

News Hour: During the 2017 spring semester a group of students organized to design and paint interactive murals covering a 200-foot long stretch of wall in the tunnel system located under the campus of MIT. The...

News Hour: For the first time in Portugal, South Asian movie festival “Mostra de Cinema Sul Asiático -Cinemela” has been started. The festival has been dedicated to Bangladeshi cinema maker and veteran producer late Tareque Masud....

News Hour: The French agriculture ministry said on Friday that a case of the highly contagious H5N8 strain of bird flu had been confirmed on a farm in northern France and that it has put in...

News Hour: India early on Saturday introduced its biggest tax reform in the 70 years since independence from British colonial rule. The Goods and Services Tax (GST) replaces more than a dozen federal and state levies...

News Hour: Immigration police have arrested Citycell CEO Mehboob Chowdhury at the Dhaka airport and later handed him over to the Anti-Corruption Commission in an embezzlement case.  Chowdhury was arrested after he arrived at the airport...

News Hour: Global entertainer and humanitarian Beyoncé has teamed up with UNICEF through her BeyGOOD philanthropic arm to announce the launch of BEYGOOD4BURUNDI, a multi-year partnership to provide safe water to the most vulnerable children in...

News Hour: Some of India’s biggest automakers and retailers announced price cuts on Saturday as Asia’s third-largest economy switched to a new nationwide sales tax at the stroke of midnight, replacing a host of provincial and...

News Hour: Use of low-dose aspirin lowers the risk for preeclampsia among women determined to be at high risk during first-trimester screening, according to a study presented at a meeting of the Fetal Medicine Foundation and...