Food assistance for poor declines
This has been a bad crop year so far with back-to-back floods inflicting losses on the agrarian economy and seriously affecting livelihood in half the country.
7y ago
China-Funded Projects: Dhaka seeks to speed up deals
More than a year after the Chinese president's historic Dhaka visit, some of Bangladesh's key development projects have finally gained momentum.
7y ago
Aman output likely to fall
Bangladesh is bracing itself for another less productive rice season as the United States Department of Agriculture predicts decline in acreage and yield of Aman. Aman is the most important rice season in the country after Boro.
7y ago
Some veggies not that safe
Consumers in Bangladesh are still unsure if the vegetables in their daily dishes are safe even though four years have gone by since the Food Safety Act was enacted.
7y ago
'Super rice' in sight
Scientists have long been considering the idea of engineering rice plant in a way that the global production of the cereal gets a dramatic boost. The idea came from the concern that the traditional research, which results in just one percent rise in the yearly yield, would not be enough to meet the ever-growing demand.
7y ago
Rich become richer, poor get poorer
The poor's share in the national income eroded further in the past six years, with the richer segment of the population having bigger stakes.
7y ago
Poverty reduction rate slows down
Bangladesh's rate of poverty reduction has slowed down in recent years.
7y ago
Rising from dire straits
Bangladesh has not had a food year so bad since 2008. That was a year now well marked in history books as the year of global economic meltdown, the worst since the Great Depression in the 1930s.
7y ago
October 28, 2016
Vitamin A rice now a reality
The first field trial of the Golden Rice in Bangladesh has yielded promising results, triggering prospect of the vitamin A-rich grain's release as early as 2018.
October 28, 2016
Address challenges of malnutrition: WFP official
Bangladesh is graduating to a middle-income country and developing fast, but it needs to address the remaining
October 25, 2016
Business with a vision
Long gone are the days when we sipped soft drinks from glass bottles and returned the empty bottles to our neighbourhood
October 21, 2016
Improvised, new look 3-wheelers in the making
A battery-run rickshaw consumes over 960Wh electricity every time it is charged.
September 28, 2016
Syed Haq no more
Be it verses, plays or stories - he depicted a nation's proud history with a mastery that no one else could hope to achieve in one life.
September 26, 2016
Amazing growth in maize output
Subtly and silently maize, also known as corn, has emerged as the most important cereal crop after rice in Bangladesh, relegating wheat to third.
September 24, 2016
Ensuring safe food a far cry
A nationwide outcry against widespread food adulteration had prompted the government to replace the archaic Pure Food Ordinance of 1959 with a stringent Safe Food Act in 2013.
September 16, 2016
Robots to tape crime scenes
Seeing is believing, but how often do jurors get to see a crime scene before adjudication? In courts, lawyers try to paint a word picture with their arguments and evidence, like photos and sketches, to recreate the crime scene but a lot of it is left to the imagination of judges and juries.
September 10, 2016
India to release GM mustard
India is all set to release its first genetically modified (GM) food crop -- a highly productive mustard oil variety -- and has
August 31, 2016
Toxins in 9 food items
A chemical contamination study conducted by the government on 15 food commodities has found presence of excessive
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