Textiles and Jute Minister Golam Dastagir Gazi speaks at a conference named ‘Muslin Prajukti Punaruddhar Prakalpa’ at Rajshahi University Botany Department on Monday evening.

WB to give $480m help for Rohingyas

UNB, Dhaka :The World Bank has announced close to half-a-billion dollars in grant-based support to help Bangladesh address the needs of Rohingyas in areas such as health, education, water and sanitation, disaster risk management, and social protection.Reflecting the increasingly protracted nature of the Rohingya crisis, the World Bank Board of Directors on Thursday approved a $50 million additional grant to an existing Health Sector Support Project in Bangladesh that is the first in a series that could total as much...

30 Jun 2018, 12:00 am