Bangladesh

News Hour: Under suitably somber skies, a few hundred students, staff and faculty gathered on Sproul Plaza on Tuesday to mourn the death, and celebrate the life, of Tarishi Jain, the Berkeley student killed in last...

News Hour: Bangladesh has declared two days of national mourning for those killed when Islamic militants stormed a cafe in the capital, Dhaka. Twenty hostages, most of them foreign, were killed in the attack. Two police officers...

News Hour: The World Bank today approved $150 million in financing to modernize and increase the transparency and efficiency of Bangladesh’s 10 state-owned banks, including the two development banks. Through improving the corporate governance, Information Technology...

News Hour: The Government of Bangladesh today signed two financing agreements totaling to $200 million with the World Bank to improve health systems and delivery of health services, and, the living conditions of the urban poor...

News Hour: Bangladeshi joint force troops say they have cleared Holey Artisan Bakery in the capital Dhaka, where gunmen took hostages including foreigners on friday, reports BBC. About 35 people were taken hostage, including about 20...

News Hour: Hundreds of troops have stormed a cafe in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, where gunmen took at least 20 hostages on Friday, security officials say, reports BBC and other local and international news agencies. Explosions...

News Hour: On 28 June 2016, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in China, as part of the Sharing and Learning on Community Based Disaster Management in Asia Project (CBDM Asia Phase II), co-hosted an Experience...

News Hour: This year in month of May The World Bank and BetterStories organised “Make A-Thon Bangladesh” 2016., 100 innovative graduate students from different universities across Bangladesh participated in the innovation incubator contest ‘Make-A-Thon’ 2016 to...

News Hour: The World Bank today approved $150 million in additional financing to help strengthen Bangladesh’s health systems and improve health services, particularly for the poor. This additional financing to the Health Sector Development Program will...

News Hour: China based The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s Board of Directors today approved its first 4 loans totaling $509 million to finance 4 projects: Power, Transport and Urban Investments span South, Southeast and Central Asia...