Bangladesh is expected to bag 6.2 crore tonnes of paddy in 2025, a 2.4 percent rise from a year earlier, owing to higher plantings and bumper yields in the Boro and Aman seasons, according to the ...

Bangladesh Bank (BB) study has laid emphasis on strengthening oversight regarding fertilizer price manipulation ...

Rural women are now very busy drying paddy in Sreepur upazila of Gazipur. Despite round-the-clock work, their fatigue is ...

The food ministry has issued fresh permits allowing private traders to import 2 lakh tonnes of parboiled rice, amid comfortable public food stocks, an above average Aman harvest forecast and no sharp ...

Security guards and criminals alike regarded Bhattacharya with suspicion whenever he frequented the border areas to take ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said that Jamaat-e-Islami opposed Bangladesh’s Liberation War and ...

LALMONIRHAT, Jan 25, 2026 (BSS) - A programme aimed at increasing the use of modern agricultural technology through rice transplanters, a specialized farm machine that automates planting rice ...

Retail broiler sellers in Bangladesh earn more than Tk7 per kg after covering operating costs, significantly higher than the profit margins earned by wholesalers, according to a Bangladesh Bank survey ...

By Saurabh Sharma and Arpan Chaturvedi GHAZIABAD, India, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Indian drugmaker Abbott Healthcare's supply chain is being scrutinised as part of a wider investigation into the alleged ...

The answer lies less in demand and more in supply. Bangladesh's current inflation is not primarily driven by excess consumption. It is rooted in supply-side constraints and deep structural weaknesses.

January 15 was Pongal in south India and Magh Bihu in the north-eastern regions; the day before was Makar Sankranti and Tusu ...

Makar Sankranti, or Poush Parbon to Bengalis, is about a steaming bowl of Dudh Puli or Dudh Chitoi that symbolises the love ...