Development

Dr Mushtaque Raza Chowdhury, Vice Chairperson of BRAC, was nominated by the American non-profit Ronald McDonald House Charities for its ‘Medical Award of Excellence 2017’ along with a grant of USD 100,000. The award was given...

Prime Minister of Canada calls on people everywhere to push further and faster on the road to gender equality Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Sophie Grégoire Trudeau spoke to hundreds of leaders, including government officials, business...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide US$260 million to Bangladesh for sustaining and increasing its investments in infrastructures, particularly financing public-private partnership (PPP) projects as well as renewable energy interventions. “Like earlier, the ADB fund...

The International AIDS Society (IAS) welcomes the appointment of Peter Sands as the new Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Sands is the former Chief Executive Officer of Standard Chartered...

Supported by the government of Malaysia and the Commonwealth Secretariat, the three-day summit was held at the University of Nottingham and Limkokwing University of Creative Technology in Malaysia. The first Commonwealth Youth Summit 2017 concluded on...

To build the home-grown vision of people-centric smart cities for all with a theme of ‘Smart City Smart People‘ – a ‘Smart City Week 2017‘, from November 29 – December 5, 2017 (rescheduled time) has been...

UN Migration Agency, launched an online business exchange platform in Kyiv to foster networking and cooperation among self-employed persons and owners of small businesses. The platform, funded by the Government of the United Kingdom and run...

BRAC’s executive director, Dr Muhammad Musa said, “For education to be able to serve the future of our communities, we need to empower teachers, methodologies, practitioners and more importantly mindsets, in order to solve real problems...

With rapidly rising numbers of people suffering from Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, the disease is taking a growing emotionally and financial toll as people live longer Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is to invest...

Countries Join 16 Existing GFF Countries, as the GFF Prepares to Expand to a Total of 50 Countries in the Next Five Years The Global Financing Facility in support of Every Woman Every Child (GFF) announced...