July2020

More than 15 million cases of acute malnutrition are expected in children under the age of five in West and Central Africa in 2020 – one-third of cases in the most severe form – if adequate...

Three Katyusha rockets landed Sunday near the U.S. embassy at the heavily fortified Green Zone in central the Iraqi capital Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. The attack took place in the afternoon when the three...

Hundred-year-old Captain Tom walked more than two and a half kilometers before his birthday on April 30 to raise more than thirty-two million, five hundred thousand pounds for UK health workers. For this contribution, he received...

This is the first time that a Chinese vaccine has been approved by the Bangladesh Medical Research Council (BMRC) for ICDDR,B for a phase three trial in Bangladesh. Approval for vaccine trials in the country was...

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel warned it was still possible that Europian Union leaders could fail to reach an agreement on Sunday on a huge post-virus recovery plan for the shattered European economy. Arriving for the third...

Dutch king his highness Willem-Alexander has lauded Bangladesh’s impressive socio-economic development and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s “charismatic leadership over one decade now’’. King Willem-Alexander remembered his visit to Bangladesh decades back and said that both the...

The controversial Matarbari Coal Power Plant which is funded by The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) came under fire from civil society organizations this week for unsafe working practices resulting in the death and serious injury...

Bangladesh has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world. Despite many positive changes experienced by women, including increased access to schooling and workforce participation, improved life expectancy, and declining fertility, approximately 60...