Development

Affordable, quality childcare is inaccessible in many of the world’s wealthiest countries, UNICEF said in a new report released on June 18th. Luxembourg, Iceland, Sweden, Norway and Germany rank the highest on childcare provisions among high-income...

Israeli researchers said Thursday they had found bones belonging to a “new type of early human” previously unknown to science, shedding new light on the course of human evolution. Archeological digs near the city of Ramla...

Universal College Bangladesh (UCB) is the exclusive partner of Monash College Australia and the only Ministry of Education-approved international education provider in Bangladesh. Monash College is fully-owned by Monash University, a world top 100 ranked university...

Bangladesh abstained from voting on a resolution passed by the UN General Assembly on Friday calling for a ban on arms sales to Myanmar. The UN General Assembly adopted the resolution on Friday, condemning the military...

The World Bank rejected a request from El Salvador for assistance in its bid to adopt bitcoin as a currency, a spokesperson for the Washington-based development lender said Thursday. El Salvador uses the US dollar as...

The Humanitarian Crisis Management Programme (HCMP) of BRAC and different donors and development organizations organized programmes at Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar today, marking World Refugee Day. The Day is being observed in the country today...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will return to the top post for a second term. With Friday’s oath, Guterres vowed to use the lessons learned from the ongoing Covid-19 epidemic worldwide. Guterres will serve a second term...

The UN General Assembly on Friday called on member states to suspend arms supplies to Myanmar. And it is part of a proposal that condemns the military junta government of the conflict-ridden country and has no...

At least 16 people have been killed and 22 others are missing after floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains in Nepal over the past few days. With the onset of the monsoon season in Nepal,...

Mackenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has donated another USD 2.7 billion. She said on social media on Tuesday (June 15th) that the money had been donated to hundreds of charities. Since 2020,...