US President Donald Trump’s administration announced plans Friday to effectively close the US international development agency USAID, formalising widely-criticised plans to dramatically cut foreign aid spending.
Pete Marocco, who played a major role in the dismantling of the agency, will return to the State Department
Their efforts to close the foreign aid agency likely violated the US Constitution, the judge said.
The unions said the directive "suggests a rapid destruction of agency records on a large scale"
WFP’s food aid cuts may lead to a humanitarian disaster
More than 700 people have signed onto the letter, a US official speaking on the condition of anonymity said.
Amid USAID funding cuts, government and NGOs should collaborate to keep key projects alive
Tens of thousands of development professionals are facing joblessness following USAID's decision to cancel the majority of its nearly 100 projects in Bangladesh
The review in part targeted multi-year foreign assistance contracts awarded by the USAID, with the vast majority eliminated during its course.
We are left speechless with horror at the coldblooded killing of Xulhaz Mannan, an official of USAID and rights activist and his friend Mahbub Tonoy...
Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Haque today said Kalabagan’s double murder was “planned extensively and the victims were being followed” for days.
UN, US, UK, CPJ, Denmark and Norway condemn the murders of USAID staff Xulhaz Mannan and his friend in Dhaka’s Kalabagan area.
Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha says initiatives will be taken to introduce evening shift at courts in order to reduce the backlog of cases.
A two-year-long national awareness campaign to save tigers will begin on February 11.
Counsellor of the US Department of State Thomas A Shannon will travel to Dhaka on Sunday to discuss bilateral issues between US and Bangladesh.
By inexpensively turning salt water into drinking water using sustainable solar power, a team from MIT in the US has not only come up with a portable desalination system for use anywhere in the world that needs it, but it’s just won the 2015 Desal Prize - a competition run by USAID to encourage better solutions to water shortages in developing countries, reports sciencealert.com.
