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

In a nation often defined by resilience and reinvention, few stories echo louder than Bangladesh’s microfinance revolution.

He added that Tagore, who penned the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh, was a global figure, and “an attack on his home is an attack on the very idea of cultural unity.” Patra also ...

DEL MAR, Calif. (AP) — Dick Tracy got an atom-powered two-way wrist radio in 1946. Marty Cooper never forgot it.

Tiny loans add up The Grameen Bank is the outgrowth of Yunus’ discovery, a half-century ago, that he could improve the lives of the poorest people in his nation by loaning them small amounts of money ...

Scaling up public food distribution programmes for the poor and the vulnerable is the need of the hour -- given the cost of living crisis. But the government seems to be shying away from stepping ...

Bangladesh Social Safety Net Budget 2025-26: The interim government proposed a new framework for social safety net programmes, under which 7.68 crore poor people would receive Tk 37,076 crore next ...

At the same time, 7% (12 million) of the population is aged 65 and above, signalling the onset of population ageing ...

Beijing was a welcoming host, granting Bangladesh duty-free access to China’s market until 2028, and committing to relocating some of its light manufacturing operations to Bangladeshi industrial zones ...