Dhaka, Feb. 1 -- The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) has laid off over 1,000 employees after the United States government decided to halt funding for foreign programmes.

This is the latest incident of employees being sacked from programmes funded by the USAID after President Donald Trump on 20 January issued an executive order suspending funding to all countries for 90 days to allow a review of the assistance programs.

The employees worked on various research projects funded by various government agencies, including the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID.

AKM Tariful Islam Khan, senior manager (communications) at icddr,b, yesterday told the local media that these empl...