Development

Today, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Bangladeshi government inked loan agreements totaling around $1.026 billion for five projects pertaining to energy, health, education, Chattogram Hill Tracts, and road connectivity inside the nation. $100 million...

Shipments of the world’s first WHO-recommended malaria vaccine, RTS,S, have begun with 331,200 doses landing last night in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The delivery is the first to a country not previously involved in the malaria vaccine pilot...

The BBC has unveiled its 2023 list of 100 powerful and inspirational women worldwide. This year, this list includes Bangladeshi social youth icon Jannatul Ferdous Ivy. Having survived an accident that burnt 60% of her body,...

Most child-related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators are off-pace to meet their targets by the 2030 deadline in Latin America and Caribbean, UNICEF warned on World Children’s Day. At the current pace, the region will not...

Preserving antimicrobials for the well-being of humans, animals, plants and ecosystems: Quadripartite holds inaugural Plenary Assembly of the AMR Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Platform The first Plenary Assembly of the Antimicrobial Resistance Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Platform opened today at...

On 10 November, CERN and the World Food Programme (WFP) took a significant step in formalising their partnership by signing a memorandum of cooperation (MoC). This MoC paves the way for joint initiatives in which CERN’s...

The CEO of BNNRC will be present at the UN FAO Headquarters in Italy for the Antimicrobial Resistance Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Platform’s inaugural plenary assembly. Mr. AHM Bazlur Rahman, Chief Executive Officer of Bangladesh NGOs Network for...

On Saturday, the groups of small dairy farmers inside Dhaka North City Corporation received dairy equipment from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). According to a news release from the FAO today,...

1 in 3 children – or 739 million worldwide – already live in areas exposed to high or very high water scarcity, with climate change threatening to make this worse, according to a new UNICEF report....

Following a recent earthquake in Herat, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that the Russian Defense Ministry has dispatched two special flights to transport about 40 metric tons of humanitarian supplies to Afghanistan. “On November 11, humanitarian...