Taking Tk 300 from her rickshaw-puller husband, Moni Begum went to Mirpur-11 kitchen market in the capital yesterday in the hope of buying some good food for her three children to eat on the first day of Ramadan.

5,000-7,000 chickens die on the way to the capital and end up in eateries, claims the state minister for industries

Police and RAB will cooperate in the mobile court drives

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Md Atiqul Islam today said they would monitor the kitchen markets strictly to keep supply of daily essentials and its prices in a stable state during the month of Ramadan.

With Ramadan less than a week away, the high prices of chicken and meat are not likely to come down anytime soon.

Poultry operators say at an international poultry seminar in Dhaka

The Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) has said that there is no evidence of Sultan's Dine restaurant using the meat of other animals instead of mutton in their Kachchi biryani

The tea workers demanded Tk 30,000 in arrears for 20 months in line with the hiked wages that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asked tea garden owners to pay in August last year

Shojne or moringa drumsticks are a seasonal treat and is found in bazars during early spring. All local markets and vegetable vans, roaming the lanes and by lanes of any residential area, are vending these light green drumsticks, a rare delicacy fancied by many, because of its phytomedicinal values.

The country has achieved bumper Aman yield and it would not need to import rice if good yield of Boro paddy is achieved, said the minister

An author of the new study said researchers were not on a "crusade" against infant formula, which should remain an option for mothers who cannot or choose not to breastfeed

“Because of the cutting and polishing, rice loses its nutritional value and it is being done by importing machines spending crores of taka. The government will take steps soon to stop it.”

Refiners have called for lower import duties on sugar and sufficient gas supply in factories to keep the commodity’s price normal during the upcoming fasting month of Ramadan.

WorldFish Bangladesh organised the event under its USAID-funded ECOFISH II activity, aiming to build the capacity of the stakeholders to integrate an EAFM-based plan for the future marine artisanal fisheries resource management of the Bay

As per the new law, no one can set up any haat and bazaar without permission from the government.

Abdul Wahab, a security guard at an ATM booth of a private bank in the capital, works 16 hours a day.

Refiners are set to raise the price of sugar from February 1, their second hike in three months, as the higher price of unrefined sugar in the global market and depreciation of taka continue to push up their production costs.

Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumdar today said there is no food shortage in the country at present.

Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque has urged the developed countries to keep the food and agricultural inputs out of the purview of war and sanctions.

The Bogura food controller office filed a case against officials of ACI Limited and Shinu Agro Food Limited for hoarding 4,510 tonnes of rice and paddy in local warehouses.