Development

Five households in the immediate vicinity of a massive, ever-widening sinkhole near Tokyo were urged to evacuate Sunday, with efforts to rescue a man stuck inside reportedly halted. A 74-year-old truck driver was swallowed Tuesday by the cavity...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has emphasized the importance of maintaining political impartiality in Bangladesh when it comes to hiring and promoting people in public sectors including the court, police, and civil service. “A key concern is to...

Bangladesh Steel Re-Rolling Mills (BSRM) Limited constructed an environmentally friendly steel facility in Chattogram with the Japan International Cooperation Agency’s (JICA) Private Sector Investment Finance (PSIF) program. According to a JICA press release here, the new...

Reducing air pollution is a time-consuming process that depends on economic capability, growth patterns, communication facilities, and transportation systems, according to Environment, Forests, and Climate Change Advisor Syeda Rizwana Hasan. She pointed out that 28 percent...

The recent USAID Stop Work Orders have stunned the entire development sector around the world and leaves thousands of practitioners in trouble regarding the future of their programs and careers. The immediate cessation of funding has...

BRAC is proud to present the Kaiser and Wendy Zaman Fellowship, an endowment that will launch a new educational initiative within its Medhabikash program. This innovative intervention of the BRAC Education Program (BEP) provides financial and...

As emergency personnel fought to restore services after Storm Eowyn, hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Scotland were still without electricity late Saturday. One person was killed, aircraft were grounded,...

Air pollution forced nearly 200 schools in Bangkok to close on Thursday, local authorities said, as officials urged people to work from home and restricted heavy vehicles in the city. Seasonal air pollution has long afflicted...

At least 242 million students in 85 countries had their schooling disrupted by extreme climate events in 2024, including heatwaves, tropical cyclones, storms, floods, and droughts, exacerbating an existing learning crisis, according to a new UNICEF...

Following President Donald Trump’s announcement that the United States would withdraw from the Paris Agreement for the second time, billionaire Michael Bloomberg announced Thursday that his foundation would take over funding the UN climate change organization....