Bangladesh sends second consignment of emergency aid to Myanmar
Bangladesh has sent the second mission of emergency medicines and relief supplies to the victims of the devastating earthquake in Myanmar...
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Govt should step up food aid to stop people sliding to poverty
AN INCREASE in the number poor households, to 26.43 per cent in 2024 from 24.73 per cent in 2022, against the backdrop of persistent inflationary pressure, which has added to food insecurity, natural disasters and other artificial factors, shows that the poor and low-income people are left to struggle, warranting early government steps. Whilst this has been the case with...
Ex-state minister for ICT Palak placed on four-day remand in Jatrabari killing case
A court in Dhaka on Monday placed former state minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak on a four-day remand in a case lodged with the city鈥檚 Jatrabari Police Station over the murder of Obaidul Islam during the July-August mass uprising...
鈥楤ioCity鈥� engages youth to restore Dhaka鈥檚 wetlands
WaterAid Bangladesh, in collaboration with the embassy of Sweden, concluded the competition titled BioCity: Youth for Urban Wetland Revival at the Amari Dhaka of Gulshan in Dhaka on Saturday...
Mass uprising: Hasina, Quader, 429 others sued in Bogura
A case was filed against 431 people, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader allegedly for attempting to murder Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal activist Zakirul Islam during the July-August mass uprising....
Myanmar relief camps receive last WFP aid as cuts begin
Distraught Myanmar relief camp dwellers received final handouts from the World Food Programme on Wednesday as the UN agency begins halting aid to a million people in the country because funding has dried up...
Baidu releases AI model to compete with DeepSeek
Chinese internet search giant Baidu released a new artificial intelligence reasoning model Sunday and made its AI chatbot services free to consumers as ferocious competition grips the sector...
Surge in crimes in Rohingya camps in Bangladesh feared after UN food aid cut
Officials overseeing Rohingya issues and community leaders fear a surge in crimes in and around the camps at Ukhiya and Teknaf in Cox鈥檚 Bazar because of UN food aid cut.
LAID-OFF BEXIMCO WORKERS: Govt hands over Tk 525cr to pay dues
The government on Thursday handed over a cheque for Tk 525.46 crore to pay all arrears of laid-off workers and staff of 14 closed factories of Beximco Industrial Park...
USAID FUNDING FREEZE: Not a setback, but a wake-up call
IN BANGLADESH, the recent USAID funding freeze and the UK鈥檚 aid cuts have alarmed concerned stakeholders. Foreign assistance has long played a crucial role in healthcare, education, humanitarian aid, and climate adaptation. The fear is that without foreign aid from the giants, essential programs could collapse, leaving vulnerable communities at risk. But rather than...
World community must work on UN Rohingya food aid cut
THE United Nations鈥� sudden and drastic reduction in monthly food aid, by 52 per cent, could be devastating for more than a million of the Rohingyas now sheltered in Bangladesh. The World Food Programme on March 5 announced that it would reduce its allocation for food for the Rohingyas in Bangladesh from $12.5 to $6 per person beginning on April 1 and cited...
$29M USAID FUND ROW: Trump allegations baseless: MoFA
The ministry of foreign affairs refuted the claim that the USAID awarded an organisation in Bangladesh with $29 million which was owned by only two individuals.
Addressing gaps in sanitation facilities stressed
Speakers including water and sanitation experts, private entrepreneurs, academics, and development partners at the inaugural session of the Toilet Conference 2025 on Tuesday called for addressing gaps in sanitation facilities in the country...
Three left extremists shot dead in Jhenaidah聽
Three suspected members of left extremist organisation Purba Banglar Communist Party, were shot dead reportedly by armed Jasod Ganabahani near an irrigation canal in the Ramchandrapur area under Sailkupa upazila...
Mother tongue and beyond
FEBRUARY 21, 2025 marks the first observance of the historic language movement since the July 2024 mass uprising in Bangladesh. The groundbreaking political change brought about by last year鈥檚 student-led movement is likely to provide new or more nuanced ways of reflecting on the language struggle of the Pakistan period that, among other things, fundamentally...
Ex-lawmaker of Jhenaidah-3 Sala Uddin held in Jashore
Former lawmaker for Jhenaidah 3 constituency and also defence affairs secretary of the ousted Awami League government, retired major general Salahuddin Miazi, was detained by the joint forces from Shyamolchhaya, a private park at Rudrapur village at Jashore Sadar on Tuesday night, said Kazi Babul Hossain officer-in-charge of the Kotwali police...
Tragedy of commons being repeated on global scale
THE virtually overnight suspension of the US government鈥檚 multibillion dollar foreign aid programme channelled through USAID has been headline news in the US and in other parts of the world where this aid has been very important. In the US itself the suspension of USAID programmes has been accompanied by large scale loss of jobs in the aid sector without due...
US judge temporarily lifts funding freeze on aid programs
A federal judge has temporarily lifted a freeze on funding to US aid and development programs ordered by President Donald Trump鈥檚 administration, court documents seen by AFP on Friday showed....
Musk and the myth of USAID
WHAT hath the make America great again movement wrought? I doubt the archest of Donald Trump鈥檚 arch-enemies ever imagined that in his second term he would take things this far in the direction of dangerous or dumb or both...
Trump leaves USAID staff in despair
Beyond putting its work in some of the world鈥檚 poorest countries in doubt, US president Donald Trump鈥檚 sudden move to shut down USAID has left many of its thousands of employees in shock and despair.
Dev sector jobs, services in Bangladesh hit by USAID fund suspension
Many non-governmental organisations and marginalised communities who benefit from different socio-economic services provided by these organisations in Bangladesh are already feeling the impact of the USAID fund freeze ordered by United States president Donald Trump in January...
Laid-off Beximco workers to be paid within Feb
The government will complete the payment of arrear wages and allowances to more than 27,000 laid-off workers of different industrial units of the Beximco Group this month...
Trump fires USAID inspector general
US president Donald Trump has fired the independent inspector general for the US Agency for International Development, US media outlets reported on Wednesday...
CA seeks continued US support for key projects, reforms
Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday sought continued US support for key projects and reforms as US Charge d鈥檃ffaires to Bangladesh Tracey Jacobson met him in the city.
Hasan and Khaled called to aid practice
Pacer Hasan Mahmud and Khaled Ahmed have been roped in by the Bangladesh Cricket Board to aid the preparation of the national team ahead of the forthcoming Champions Trophy...
Salman, Anisul, Palak put on fresh remand in murder case
A Dhaka court has placed ex-prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 former private investment adviser Salman F Rahman, ex-law minister Aniusl Haq and two others on a 4-day remand each in a murder case...
Trump freezes aid to S. Africa, citing law to 'seize' land
President Donald Trump on Friday froze US aid to South Africa, citing a law in the country that he alleges allows land to be seized from white farmers, despite Johannesburg's denials.
USAID places US, global staff on leave
The US government's giant humanitarian agency USAID on Tuesday announced it was placing its staff in the United States and around the world on administrative leave as it moved to recall employees from overseas postings.
Hundreds of US govt sites go offline
Hundreds of US government websites were offline on Monday, an AFP review showed, including that of the humanitarian agency USAID which president Donald Trump鈥檚 administration is shutting down...
Musk brands USAID criminal
Elon Musk attacked the US Agency for International Development, calling it a 鈥榗riminal organisation鈥� on Sunday, as president Donald Trump claimed the agency was 鈥榬un by radical lunatics鈥� and said he was considering its future.