With the US and Switzerland halting their funding, Bangladesh’s development sector faces a challenge. This situation underscores the urgent need to minimise dependency on foreign aid and work towards ...

The Aga Khan, who became the spiritual leader of the world’s millions of Ismaili Muslims at age 20 as a Harvard undergraduate ...

He was widely regarded as a builder of bridges between Muslim societies and the West despite his reticence to become involved ...

The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) will continue its cooperation with Bangladesh on humanitarian issues related to the Rohingya refugee crisis, climate risk reduction and migration ...

Just days after the US donor agency, USAID, announced it would halt funding to Bangladesh, the Swiss government has also ...

Bangladesh Chief Adviser, Professor Muhammad Yunus, participated in at least 47 formal events at the WEF, including with four ...

Up to that 9.4% of Earth's terrestrial ecosystems face potential transformation by 2050 due to changes in tropical cyclone activity. In their study, Chahan M. Kropf and colleagues from ETH Zurich show ...

Yunus, who arrived in Switzerland on Tuesday, is set to attend seven events on Friday, the final day of his visit. During his visit, he attended a Bangladesh-focused dialogue and held meetings ...

According to Switzerland-based IQAir, which keeps track on air quality in 124 cities all over the world, Bangladesh’s average fine particles (PM2.5) concentration was 16 times the WHO annual air ...

Federal Councillor and head of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) Ignazio Cassis has reaffirmed Switzerland's support to Bangladesh during this "important phase of transition" with ...