Tanzina (17) is a medical technology student from Dhaka. She grew up in Korail with her family.  It’s late afternoon when we ...

Frustration runs high in sprawling camps of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the ...

Through this punishment, the tribunal said it wants to set an example and send a message to the society that such brutal crimes against women and children are being tried ...

Despite progress in reducing the prevalence of this phenomenon, a recent UN report places Bangladesh as a topper in child marriage in Asia and 8th globally ...

When Kajol contracted tuberculosis in January, USAID kept her alive. Now she and her family are in danger again after the ...

A fire has broken out at the Sattala slum in Dhaka’s Mohakhali. The incident occurred around 3:45am on Wednesday. As many as five units of firefighters have been working to tame the fire ...

‘An aid funding crisis risks becoming a child survival crisis,’ Rana Flowers, UNICEF's representative in Bangladesh, told journalists in Geneva, speaking from Dhaka. ‘More than 500,000 children live ...

Students celebrate after receiving sanitary towels from a well-wisher (centre) at St Mary's Primary School in Bangladesh slums in Mombasa on August 25, 2024.Despite legal requirements to provide nine ...

Gender-inclusive Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) is not just a women’s issue but a critical development priority, said speakers at a roundtable discussion yesterday.

In the Vanzara Vas slum in the Narol area of the city, which has more than 2,000 dwellings, most of them airless, one-room homes, residents that are part of the project, such as Nehal Vijaybhai ...

New Age, a Dhaka-based leading English language daily newspaper, is a major source of news of Bangladesh and international affairs ...