THIS is unfortunate that food losses post harvest and food waste at consumption account for a third of all the food produced in Bangladesh, as a recent World Bank report says, when insufficient food security forces 12 per cent of the poor to skip meals and about 9 per cent of the poor to pass a day without food, as a recent Power and Participation Research Centre...
Bangladesh Bank is ready to extend all possible support 鈥� from policy reforms to easier loan access 鈥� to strengthen the country鈥檚 private sector, said Nawshad Mustafa, director of the central bank鈥檚 SME and SPD departments...
A report has revealed at least 314 upazilas and cities across the country where more road crashes happened between 2020 and 2024...
Dhaka has ranked fifth on the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 169 at about 9:00am on Saturday morning...
Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust on Friday condemned recent extrajudicial punishment of a woman in a local arbitration in Cumilla鈥檚 Chauddagram upazila.
The Bangladesh Navy has detained nine Indian fishermen along with a trawler for illegally entering Bangladeshi waters and fishing.
Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party is fully prepared ahead of the 13th national parliamentary elections, with 600,000 Ansar members set to be deployed across the country.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Friday withdrew the expulsion orders against seven of its leaders, who had earlier also been removed from all party positions for alleged violations of party discipline.
A total of 309 more Bangladeshi nationals who had expressed their willingness to return home from Libya were repatriated on Friday under the supervision of the Bangladesh embassy in Tripoli, with cooperation from the Government of National Unity of Libya.
The Bangladesh Coast Guard in an operation on Friday rescued 44 people, including women and children, held captive in a remote hilly area of Teknaf for the purpose of trafficking.
Food 鈥� an essential element for human survival 鈥� has turned into a silent killer in Bangladesh.
Food losses during the post-harvest period and food waste in the consumption level are growing in Bangladesh due to the absence of adequate food processing plants and a lack of push for recycling wasted food in the food-starved country.
Bangladesh national women鈥檚 team suffered a 3-0 defeat to Thailand in their first of the two FIFA friendly matches at the Bangkok Thonburi University Training Field on Friday.
Bangladesh captain Mehidy Hasan Miraz believes that their 2-1 one-day international series win over the West Indies would give them momentum ahead of their key assignments leading up to the forthcoming ICC Cricket World Cup in 2027.
A fire broke out at a community centre in the Kalshi area of Mirpur, in Bangladesh capital Dhaka, on Friday night.
Islami Bank Bangladesh PLC, in collaboration with Mastercard, inaugurated a fully cashless university campus under the Bangladesh Bank鈥檚 鈥楥ashless Bangladesh鈥� initiative, enabling teachers, students and visitors to conduct cashless transactions at Chattogram University.聽
Bangladesh鈥檚 steel industry, one of the key drivers of the country鈥檚 infrastructure-led economic growth is shifting its focus from capacity expansion to cost efficiency and technological modernisation as domestic demand has weakened in recent years due to...
Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has said the United Nations must continue to evolve and adapt to fulfill collective aspiration for peace and multilateralism.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Salahuddin Ahmed on Friday said that the party will send letters to the interim government and the Election Commission seeking changes in certain parts of the Representation of the People Order (Amendment) Ordinance.
Brent Christensen, the U S ambassador nominee to Bangladesh, has expressed his commitment to enhancing cooperation with both the current interim government and the forthcoming democratically elected government in Bangladesh, with the goal of further advancing the Dhaka-Washington partnership.
Bangladesh has issued a strong condemnation of the Israeli Knesset鈥檚 recent approval of draft laws that seek to impose so-called 鈥業sraeli sovereignty鈥� over the occupied West Bank territories of Palestine.
Bangladesh interim government is under no local or international pressure to bring the ousted Awami League in the upcoming electoral race, chief adviser鈥檚 press secretary Shafiqul Alam said on Friday.
Four hundred and sixty-eight more new dengue cases were reported in the 24 hours leading up to Friday morning, bringing the total number of cases to 63, 638 this year.
A low-pressure area has formed over the Southeast Bay and adjoining regions, and it is likely to intensify, the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) said in its bulletin on Friday morning.
Bangladesh has sought technical assistance from the United Kingdom, Australia, China and Turkey in preparing a forensic report of the fire that damaged a section of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport鈥檚 cargo village in Dhaka on October 18...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said that the future of the country鈥檚 economy, politics, education, and all other sectors depended on the next elected government...
Ambassador of Denmark to Bangladesh Christian Brix M酶ller on Thursday reiterated Denmark鈥檚 commitment to supporting Bangladesh鈥檚 green transition.
Indian Border Security Force picked up a Bangladeshi youth from the Nitpur border area under Porsha upazila in Naogaon early Wednesday.
Citizen鈥檚 Platform for SDGs, Bangladesh convener Debapriya Bhattacharya at a programme in Sylhet on Thursday said that a 鈥榗rony capitalist鈥� economy had been established in the country...
The interim government on Thursday approved a draft ordinance in principle expanding the jurisdiction of the Anti-Corruption Commission to probe graft allegations against foreign citizens residing in Bangladesh.聽聽
