Development

News Hour “Healthy women, healthy city” – this is the slogan used to launch Dhaka’s first modern, sanitary and safe toilets specifically targeting women. The official inauguration of the first toilet, located on the third floor...

News Hour BRAC in Afghanistan organised a research dissemination event at Kabul on 15 October 2017. The event revealed the finding of a study titled Nutrition Promotion and Collective Vegetable Gardening by Adolescent Girls: Feasibility Assessment...

News Hour Spanish Maritime Rescue services confirmed on Sunday morning that they have rescued 346 immigrants from dinghies attempting to cross from North-Africa to Spain in a period of less than 48 hours. The return of...

News Hour: Ms. Helle Thorning-Schmidt, CEO of Save the Children International, Prime Minister of Denmark 2011-2015, met national and international media on Saturday, October 21, 2017, to discuss her experience of Bangladesh visit, Rohingya response plan,...

News Hour IOM, the UN Migration Agency has relocated over 15,000 Eritrean refugees in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia since 1 March 2017. In close partnership with the Government of Ethiopia’s Administration for Refugee and Returnee...

News Hour The world’s second largest oral vaccination campaign, led by the Ministry of Health, ended yesterday on a highly successful note. With a target set to immunise 650,000 people in Cox’s Bazar, the joint efforts...

News Hour The D-8 member states have assured their political and humanitarian support for sustainable solution of Rohingya issue that created humanitarian crisis in Bangladesh. The member states gave the assurance at the 9th D-8 Summit...

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News Hour: Desperate living conditions and waterborne diseases are threatening more than 320,000 Rohingya refugee children who have fled to southern Bangladesh since late August, including some 10,000 who crossed from Myanmar over the past few...

News Hour: Senior officials from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) visited Government Primary Schools under Save the Children’s Reading Enhancement for Advancing Development (READ) project, located in Magura in Bangladesh, on Wednesday, October...