Bad roads cost Bangladesh over $10 billion annually and trap millions in poverty. The deeper costs of a broken transport system—missed schooldays, maternal deaths, farm losses—reveal a nation stalled ...

Using loopholes and fraud, brokers turn poverty in Bangladesh and demand for transplants in India into booming business.

The government has declared 43 types of work as hazardous for children—jobs that threaten their physical and mental ...

Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN Ambassador Rabab Fatima has said countries will have to collaborate strongly for a sustainable recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. She said this will ...

They are still weaving today – but just barely. The tradition is endangered not because it lacks beauty or demand, but ...

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / July 3, 2025 /Published by Action Against Hunger. July 3, 2025 New York, NY Please ...

Issues like underinvestment, high out-of-pocket costs, and inequitable access have long plagued Bangladesh's health care ...

Bangladesh’s expenditure on poverty reduction has been gradually declining, and in the upcoming fiscal year of 2025-26, it is set to hit a four-year low due to a decrease in spending that ...

The global lender found that 54% of electricity subsidies go to the top 40% income group, who typically live in larger homes and use more electricity due to higher ownership of appliances and air ...

As Bangladesh inches closer to its long-anticipated graduation from the Least Developed Country (LDC) category in November ...

Organised by members of the Bangladeshi diaspora, human rights activists, and community leaders, the exhibition showcased the alleged human rights violations and increasing persecution of minorities ...

In 1985, seven South Asian countries — Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka — came ...