Poverty

Battery-run rickshaw, van, easy bike are seized and dumped in Bata Gate area in Gazipur by the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway

Questions Bangladeshi media doesn't ask about easy bikes

Nearly 6,000 seized motorised rickshaws and easy bikes have been seized and kept at Bata Gate and the T&T ground in Gazipur. That means, drivers of 6,000 engine-run rickshaws, vans and easy bikes ...

James Hetfield (L) and Kirk Hammett (R) of Metallica perform during the Global Citizen Festival at Central Park in New York on 24 September, 2022

Metallica, Biden and Mariah Carey come together against poverty

Thrash metal band Metallica and Mariah Carey on Saturday led an A-list of musicians, and US president Joe Biden made a surprise video appearance, as the Global Citizen Festival sought to mobilize ...

People from lower income group line up to purchase essential commodities from TCB. The picture was taken from Garpara in Manikganj

Project to make list of poor Huge expense, ‘extreme negligence’

Without even completing the list of the poor people, the Statistics and Informatics Division under the planning ministry is going to finish a related project. The initiative to make a list of the ...

ADB

Bangladesh, ADB agree to end projects timely to expedite economic recovery

The government of Bangladesh and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) at a tripartite portfolio review meeting (TPRM) Thursday discussed and agreed on actions to further improve the implementation of ...

Students return home crossing mustard fields as they hold new textbooks received during the textbook festival held across the country on 1 January

‘Girls lag behind boys in mathematics for negative gender norms’

Learning mathematics skills in turn strengthens memory, comprehension, and analysis, in turn improving children’s ability to create, the UNICEF report notes

Children queue for a free meal during a feeding program by outreach group World Mission Community Care, at a slum area in the Baseco compound, metro Manila on 30 July, 2014.

Pandemic sets back Asia-Pacific's poverty fight by 2 yrs: ADB

Extreme poverty is expected to drop below 1 per cent of the population by 2030

Debapriya Bhattacharya

Interview: Debapriya Bhattacharya 'A transitional consensus plan needed for the economy'

Speaking in an interview with Prothom Alo, economist Debapriya Bhattacharya says, those who had been basking in economic development so long, are alarmed at the sound of IMF. They had been denying ...

Improving the living standard of northern char dwellers of Bangladesh

Improving the living standard of northern char dwellers of Bangladesh

A roundtable on “Improving the Living Standard of Northern Char Dwellers of Bangladesh” was held on 31 July 2022, jointly organized Friendship Inclusive Citizenship and Prothom Alo organised. The ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

Govt mulls further measures to control price of essentials: PM Hasina

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has said her government mulls further steps to bring down prices of daily essentials to keep them at a tolerable level of the ordinary consumers

Editorial

TCB family card: Where is transparency and accountability?

The findings of a recent study by the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), conducted on TCB family card are very worrying

A general view of the city of Kabul, Afghanistan on 5 August, 2022

Misery and disease conquer Afghanistan a year into Taliban rule

Poverty in the country -- felt most keenly in Afghanistan’s south -- has been driven to desperate new levels, exacerbated by drought and inflation since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

(Clockwise) Shamsul Alam, Onno Van Manen, Sheldon Yett and Runa Khan

Ensure basic needs of Char people: Experts

Chars have fertile land. The people living in Chars are also hard working. They have transformed the Chars into greenery with their hard work. Their contribution to agriculture and animal resources ...

Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; attends a panel discussion on Building Human Capital during the IMF/World Bank spring meeting in Washington, US, 21 April 2018.

Bill Gates donates $20b to his foundation

Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates is donating $20 billion to the charitable foundation run by him and his ex-wife Melinda French Gates to boost its annual distributions

Rich-poor gap increases rapidly around the world

Rich-poor gap increases rapidly around the world

According to the World Bank's 2016 report, Bangladesh ranks fifth in terms of rich-poor inequality

President M Abdul Hamid during a speech at his official residence, Bangabhaban, Dhaka, on 10 July 2022

President Hamid urges affluent to help poor, flood-hit people relish Eid joy

Referring to the multifaceted global crisis, the president said the Russia-Ukraine war issue has now been added to the Covid-19 pandemic of the last two years

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