Food aid

Food aid

Volunteers place boxes of food into a truck bed as more than 100 cars visit the Mt Carmel Veterans Service Center food distribution site, weeks into the continuing US government shutdown, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, US, on 7 November 2025. Photo: Reuters

US Supreme Court lets Trump withhold $4 billion in food aid funding for now

The court's action, known as an administrative stay, gives a lower court additional time to consider the administration's formal request to only partially fund the Supplemental Nutrition...

Adviser Ali Imam Majumdar. Photo: Collected

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.

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

Fishermen prepare their boat. Photo: UNB

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

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

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

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

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

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 Food Programme lifts suspension of operations in Sudan

Photo: Collected

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

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

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