Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) has agreed to provide a US$ 30 million loan to Bangladesh to fund a road expansion project in the country, said an ADFD statement.

The massive and unabated erosion in the river Padma has been posing a serious threat to the city protection embankment, officials and others concerned here said.

The Department of Fisheries is implementing nine various development projects to increase fish resource in the district.

With a view to saving it from grabbers, the government has declared 0.122 million acres of land as 'reserve forests' in four costal districts.

A solar power plant with a 200 kwp (kilowatt peak) generation capacity was formally inaugurated Thursday at the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) building in the city.

Preliminary findings of the first ever nationwide study undertaken on childhood obesity in urban areas of Bangladesh by International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) r

The Department for International Development (DFID) in the last one year lifted 258,000 men, women and children in Bangladesh out of extreme poverty through direct transfer of assets, like livestoc

A large number of poor and vulnerable people are not covered by Bangladesh social protection system, leaving them exposed to risks and unforeseen difficulties, said an Asian Development Bank (ADB)

The World Bank (WB) has approved US$400 million assistance for Bangladesh to boost resilience of the coastal population to climate-change-induced flooding and other natural disasters.

Most of the schools in the country run with inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene facilities for students, especially the primary level institutions with the government and the rural ones being