Long lines of fleeing civilians filled the roads of Gaza on Wednesday as Israel kept up its renewed bombardment of the territory for a second day despite a chorus of calls from foreign governments to preserve a fragile January ceasefire...
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...
Peace Prize laureate and education activist Malala Yousafzai returned to her Pakistan home village on Wednesday, 13 years after surviving an assassination attempt by militants.
The 2026 World Cup final in New Jersey will make history by having a Super Bowl-style half-time show, world football chief Gianni Infantino said Wednesday.
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.
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...
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....
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...
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.
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...
US president Donald Trump has fired the independent inspector general for the US Agency for International Development, US media outlets reported on Wednesday...
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.
Syrian interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa said in an interview released Monday that 鈥榯housands鈥� of people were joining the country鈥檚 new army following the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad and the dissolution of his military...
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 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...
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.
IN 2019, I worked with a USAID-funded project called Nobo Jatra, which was implemented across 40 unions in the Khulna and Satkhira districts of Bangladesh. One of these unions was Buri Goalini, located in Shyamnagar Upazila. Like many other villages in the southwestern region of the country, Buri Goalini suffered from high salinity levels, leading to...
THE decision by US President Donald Trump to suspend foreign aid for 90 days, announced on the very night of his second term inauguration, has raised concerns across the globe. For countries like Bangladesh, where US assistance is crucial in development efforts, this move warrants careful examination. Stakeholders, development partners, and...
Leaders of the Bhashani Onusari Parishad, a partner of the Ganatantra Mancha, on Wednesday called on the political parties to form national unity to resist Indian aggression in the border areas between Bangladesh and India...
Syed Ashraf Uddin, a faculty, astronomer and astrophysicist from the University of South Carolina, USA, delivered a lecture at the third colloquium of the Center for Astronomy, Space Science, and Astrophysics at Independent University, Bangladesh on Monday, says a press release.
USA national team coach Mauricio Pochettino has been quick to praise the quality of American players but says he wants to inject some Argentine spirit and patriotism into his squad.
BGMEA University of Fashion and Technology and Coppin State University, USA, signed a transformative Memorandum of Understanding to foster academic and research collaboration recently...
The 23rd Dhaka International Yarn and Fabric Show 2025 (Winter Edition) organised jointly by CEMS-Global USA and CCPIT-Tex China began on Wednesday at the International Convention City Bashundhara in the capital Dhaka, said a press release...
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders on Sunday not to legitimise the Afghan Taliban government and to 鈥榮how true leadership鈥� over their assault on women鈥檚 rights.
THE government鈥檚 having increased value-added tax and supplementary duty on more than a hundred products and services by way of two ordinances, promulgated on January 9, has rightly raised the call for the government to walk back the decision. The products and services that have become dearer include mobile talk time, internet usage, biscuit...
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai will attend an international summit on girls鈥� education hosted by her native Pakistan, where she was nearly killed by militants as a schoolgirl.
The US-based Friedkin Group have completed the takeover of Everton, the Premier League club announced Thursday.
THE special military operation in Ukraine essentially puts an end to the unipolar world in which the Americans considered themselves the supreme ruler, bossing around other countries...
USAID鈥檚 Sisimpur project, the local production of Sesame Street in Bangladesh, has launched an initiative to bring the joy of nursery rhymes to children, says a press release.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia on Wednesday visited the US Embassy in Dhaka to give her biometric fingerprint for visa.