Food aid

Adviser Ali Imam Majumdar. Photo: Collected
Bangladesh

55 lakh families to get 6-month food aid per year thru OMS: Adviser Ali Imam

Around 40,000 Rohingya refugees are estimated to have fled to India from neighboring Myanmar. Photo: Bloomberg.
Rohingya Crisis

Rohingyas to get $12 monthly food aid as WFP reverses decision

Fishermen prepare their boat. Photo: UNB
Bangladesh

2 month ban on fishing in Padma-Meghna sanctuary starts 1 March

The total number of registered fishermen in Barishal division is 4,25,009. Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

1.17 lakh fishermen in Barishal div yet to receive food aid as hilsha ban ends

Floods, be it at home or in Asian neighbours, are reasons for worry about the price and supply of rice. Photo: Bloomberg
Panorama

The world can't stop floods but can keep food channels open

People queue to buy rice from the OMS truck sale point. The photo was taken at Mohammadpur in the capital recently. Photo: Rajib Dhar
Bangladesh

Food assistance for poor down as inflation, living cost up

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits a U.N. Logistics Center Warehouse in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia March 15, 2023. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri/Pool/File Photo
Africa

US suspends food aid to Ethiopia, says it is not reaching needy

The Rohingyas were forced to leave their homes and settle in makeshift refugee camps around six years ago. Photo: Reuters
Bangladesh

Food aid to 23 Rohingyas opting for repatriation to Myanmar resumed

FILE PHOTO: Sudanese refugees who fled the violence in their country, gather for food given by the World Food Programme (WFP) near the border between Sudan and Chad, in Koufroun, Chad 28 April, 2023. REUTERS/Mahamat Ramadane
World+Biz

World Food Programme lifts suspension of operations in Sudan

Photo: Collected
South Asia

Eleven killed in stampede for food aid in southern Pakistan

A Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, 16 November 2018. File Photo: Reuters/Mohammad Ponir Hossain
Rohingya Crisis

UN-Myanmar expert calls on member states to reverse the cuts to food rations for Rohingyas

FILE PHOTO: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi walks after the handover ceremony during the G20 Leaders' Summit, in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, November 16, 2022. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan/Pool
South Asia

Modi's popularity key to selling cut in food aid ahead of Indian elections

People stand in queue in front of MP's Kitchen in Chattrogram's Agrabad to have their meal at nominal costs of Tk20-30. Photo: Mohammad Minhaz Uddin/TBS
Bangladesh

Leading by example, MP serves Tk25 meals for low-income people