The World Bank Vice President for the South Asia Region, Hartwig Schafer, and the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Road Safety, Jean Todt will arrive in Bangladesh tomorrow to discuss the challenges and opportunities to improve road safety in the country. During the two-day visit, they will meet the Honorable Finance Minister, Honorable Roads, Transport, […]

The Government has decided to appoint Ms. Rabab Fatima, current Ambassador of Bangladesh to Japan, as the new Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations, New York. Ambassador Rabab Fatima is a career foreign service officer belonging to 1986 batch of Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) Foreign Affairs cadre. In her distinguished diplomatic […]

Protracted conflicts, the worsening climate crisis, a rising level of mental illness among young people, and online misinformation are some of the most concerning emerging global threats to children, UNICEF said today in an open letter issued by the organization’s Executive Director Henrietta Fore. In addition to existing threats to young people, such as access […]

The Emirates Red Crescent, ERC, distributed food items among the Rohingya refugee families living in makeshift camps in Cox’s Bazar today. ERC delegations, led by Mr. Saeed ALkhemeiri, supervised the distribution of the aid to refugees and visit their humanitarian conditions. The move is in line with the UAE leadership’s directive and with the monitoring […]

The newly appointed Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Bangladesh Mr. Sudipto Mukerjee, presented his credentials to the Foreign Minister Dr. A. K. Abdul Momen, M.P. Welcoming the new resident representative, the Foreign Minister expressed deep appreciation for the long-standing cooperation between Government of Bangladesh and UNDP in the field of […]

More than 3,000 people have been undergoing dengue fever treatment in Bangladesh.   The figures of Thursday reported by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) under the Ministry of Health showed a total of 1,355 patients are being treated in 41 public and private hospitals in capital Dhaka while 1,674 more patients are in hospitals and clinics […]