Development

When a magnitude 6.9 earthquake shook flood-ravaged northern Papua New Guinea on Monday, authorities claimed that at least five people had died and that an estimated 1,000 homes had been demolished. Disaster teams were flooding into...

A meeting was held to review the progress of the project organized by AYAT Education under the ‘Compassionate Narayanganj’ project. The review meeting was held on Monday (March 25) at 11 am in the meeting room...

Discussions on death, dying pain, and palliative care were held by AYAT Education under the 'Compassionate Narayanganj' project. The discussion meeting was held on Sunday (March 24) at 11 am in the premises of North Noadda...

Search teams in southeastern Brazil rescued a girl buried for more than 16 hours in the rubble of a collapsed house following a powerful storm that has claimed at least a dozen lives. Authorities have deployed...

On Thursday, the UN General Assembly will consider a resolution outlining the advantages and disadvantages of artificial intelligence, a potentially game-changing technology, and it will also urge for the creation of international standards. The document, which...

Foreign Minister Dr. Hasan Mahmud was visited today by Country Representatives of UN Women, Gitanjali Singh, and the World Food Programme (WFP), Domenico Scalpelli. The foreign minister talked about UN collaboration on food management and women’s...

The first birth at the Attica Zoological Park in Athens in 2024 brought great joy to conservationists as a rare and endangered potamus joined a Greek hippo family. Pygmy hippos are classified as an endangered species...

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has said he is “alarmed” by reports of ongoing Myanmar military air strikes on villages in Rakhine state, where locals told AFP more than 20 people were killed on Monday. Since...

Israel has prevented him from accessing the war-torn and beleaguered Gaza Strip, where the UN has issued an imminent hunger warning, according to the head of the UN organization for Palestinian refugees, who made this announcement...

As a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNDP since 2023, Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden traveled to Khulna and Chattogram today to observe directly the effects of climate change and the UNDP’s efforts to adapt to them...