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.

Mamata Banerjee File picture West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to strongly take up with Dhaka the issue of the vandalisation of ...

Rising waters and illicit logging are killing the trees in the Sundarbans, the natural wall that protects the India-Bangladesh coast.

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

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 ...

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 fiscal year to help them cushion the blow ...

Bangladesh is helping to create a geopolitical shift in South Asia Under Muhammad Yunus, Dhaka is turning towards Beijing and other new partners, helping to redraw regional alliances.

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