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

On Jul 21, 26,229 houses will be handed over to the needy while another 8,667 houses are under construction, Ahmad Kaikaus, the principal secretary to the prime minister, said at a media briefing ...

Piyara Begum once had a happy life in Garuhara village by the Brahmaputra River in northern Bangladesh, but worsening erosion of the river banks has displaced her family seven times.

In Bangladesh, where they surveyed 1,320 flooded households, they found nearly a third had paid to raise the floors of their homes, for instance, while others had invested in better protection for ...

The Tk4,122-cr project - house construction for poor freedom fighters - was approved by the Ecnec on March 21 last year. Under the project 30,000 “Bir Nibash” (houses) for poor freedom fighters, ...

Bangladesh is one of the world's most climate vulnerable countries. But small steps, like building resilient homes and providing job opportunities, can make a huge difference.

About a quarter of Bangladesh's estimated 165 million people are classified as poor. Nasrin, the mother of three, said her poor neighbors have been suffering and dying silently. “Many of my neighbors ...

A Nobel Prize winner known as the “banker of the poor” has emerged as a front-runner to lead Bangladesh after weeks of violent unrest forced the prime minister to resign. Mohammed Shahabuddin ...

Despite the significant progress in reducing poverty in Bangladesh, about one in five of the non-poor households remain at high risk of falling below the poverty line, according to a study by the ...

The Government of Bangladesh, with World Bank support, launched the Income Support Program for the Poorest (ISPP) in 2015. Over the course of implementation, ISPP provided cash to 600,000 poor ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh. The average income in the slums of Bangladeshi cities and among the rural poor has dropped by more than 80% since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, according to a survey ...

Bangladesh’s major rivers combined consume several thousand hectares of floodplain annually, destroying homes and infrastructure and leaving people landless and homeless. 'SILENT CANCER' ...