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Home Adviser Lieutenant General Md. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury (Retd.) called upon the United Nations (UN) to recruit more security forces members from Bangladesh in its peacekeeping missions.  “Recruit more force from Bangladesh’s police and armed forces...

Over one million children are facing critical levels of food insecurity in Haiti, UNICEF estimates. Persistent armed violence, repeated displacement, and lack of sufficient humanitarian access continue to threaten vulnerable families – while the risk of...

On April 16, 2025, Germany and Bangladesh entered into an agreement for a significant climate change initiative, with Germany committing to provide €52.5 million (approximately BDT 724 crore) to support Bangladesh’s climate adaptation projects. The agreement...

As the conflict in Sudan enters its third year, the number of children in need of humanitarian assistance has doubled, from 7.8 million at the start of 2023 to more than 15 million today. Without urgent...

Approximately 3,500 children have died or disappeared attempting to cross the Central Mediterranean migration route to Italy over the past 10 years, according to the latest estimates from UNICEF. This is the equivalent of one child...

On Sunday, April 13, North South University (NSU) witnessed the powerful launch of the Dhaka Flow’s Second Annual Youth Festival 2025, a campus wellness movement that aims to transform how students approach mental, emotional, and physical...

The United Nations humanitarian body will reduce its staff of about 2,600 people by 20 percent, its chief said in correspondence seen Friday, citing “a wave of brutal cuts” including US funding reductions by the Trump...

Weather prevented a rocket carrying the first batch of Amazon satellites designed to compete with Elon Musk’s Starlink from lifting off Wednesday, in a setback for the planned Project Kuiper network. “Stubborn cumulus clouds and persistent...

Syeda Rizwana Hasan, the adviser for the environment, forests, and climate change, stated today that waste should never be burned, not even in the Matuail Sanitary Landfill. Following her tour of the Matuail dump in Dhaka,...

According to recent statistics published by the United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME), Bangladesh is confronting serious difficulties in providing care for mothers and newborns. Even though there has been improvement since...