PepsiCo in Bangladesh, along with the global food and beverage company’s philanthropic arm, the PepsiCo Foundation, has partnered with Brac, the world’s leading NGO, to provide over 1.4 million meals to low-income and ultra-poor families impacted by coronavirus pandemic across Bangladesh.

Brac has instructed all non-essential staff working at its head office in the capital’s Mohakhali to stay at home and work remotely from March 22 to March 25 as a preventive measure against the novel coronavirus.

The SLL program an exercise where students attending the RS are tasked with the duties of the staff at the residential campus.

The government has taken zero tolerance policy against illegal migration, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam says. He suggests that those who had gone to Libya with the ultimate purpose of reaching Europe illegally should be brought under law.

It was just some 40 minutes before the iftar yesterday when a group of people showed up at arrival lounge of Dhaka’s airport, unsure about what to do. At that time, both passengers and airport staff were taking preparation to break the day’s fast.

BRAC, a Bangladesh-based non-government organisation, has been ranked the top NGO in the world in 2019.

The Brac wants the government to fund NGOs to implement development programmes as foreign funding for the sector has been declining with the country moving into middle-income status.

Brac Executive Director Muhammad Musa says that the government should invest in the non-government sector accelerating its development programmes to turn the country into a middle-income one.

Brac founder and its Chairperson Sir Fazle Hasan Abed has been named as one of the greatest leaders, according to Fortune Magazine's latest list of "The World 50 Greatest Leaders”.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith applauds Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus and Brac founder Fazle Hasan Abed for their pioneering efforts to eradicate the country’s poverty.

Government and private sector companies must ensure sufficient skill development training for the country’s growing human resources, discussants say at a seminar.

Police in a drive arrest a man on Friday night for allegedly giving a threat to a teacher and a Brac employee using the name of militant outfit Islamic State (IS) from Doshani area in Bagerhat town.

A Dubai charity is building a secondary school in Bangladesh in memory of Sufia Akter, a Bangladeshi nanny who died saving four Emirati boys from drowning two years ago, reports the Gulf News.

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, founder and chairperson of Brac, has received the Thomas Francis Jr Medal in Global Public Health award from the University of Michigan.

The current executive body of Alumni Association of BRAC University on Friday organised the first ever alumni fest in the capital.

Two Bangladeshi Brac officials working in Afghanistan are abducted by unidentified miscreants from Kunduz city.

A fire that broke out at Brac Centre in Mohakhali of Dhaka is doused half an hour after it originated.

BRAC, in association with Channel i, arranged a talent hunt competition “Taray Taray Dwipshikha” for underprivileged students of BRAC Education Programme.

Renowned agricultural and development economist Dr Mahbub Hossain has died at Cleveland clinic in Ohio State at the age of 71.

First, social protection programmes designed to offer protection (for example, from hunger), fail to offer the ladder (for example, jobs or livelihood) to climb out of extreme poverty. Second, it doesn't recognise that the ultra poor require additional guidance.