Reaz Ahmad

Farmers living in and around Hakaluki Haor have been dealt a triple blow with the death of hundreds of ducks they have been farming for their livelihood for years.

Queues get longer under the scorching sun at midday at the backswamp of Sunamganj for subsidised rice and wheat flour. People start lining up at 10:00am at points of open market sale (OMS) across the district to buy rice and flour at Tk 15 and 17 a kg, a lot cheaper than the market prices.

Tara Banu, a farmer of Habiganj's Baniachang upazila, gives in to the vagaries of nature when she meets a tragic end of her life aged 45. Being unable to bear the shock of this year's unusually early flash flood destroying standing crops in two-and-half acres of her land, she dies having suffered a cardiac arrest.

Taxation systems must have gone through many a reform over the past 400 odd years. But nothing possibly was so phenomenal than

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is right in proclaiming that the Teesta does not have much water to share with Bangladesh. And she explained why -- many a dam and hydropower plant has been built in the upstream state of Sikkim where the river originates.

A huge potential of otherwise disadvantaged southern region would be unlocked in a post-Padma Bridge scenario.

A Bangladeshi scientist, whose team in Japan is involved in research on plants' root growing capacity under stress

How often you get to know the heroics of female freedom fighters? Not much often.

One needs no soil, no open field to grow grass. An indoor facility with a hydroponic fodder unit can provide any commercial dairy farm with enough green grass to meet the nutrition needs of the animals.

Two agreements and seven memorandums of understanding on defence cooperation would figure prominently among more than 40 deals expected to be signed between Bangladesh and India during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Delhi visit next month.

The science of genome editing is gaining pace with the world's scientific community having greater grasp of the science, its tools, and

From Lalon to Shitalong, from Dhamail to Bihu - Kalikaprasad Bhattacharjee captured each and every nuance of rich Bengali folk music in a style and manner that few could do, further enshrining homegrown culture in northeastern parts of India as well as Bangladesh.

On the first day of April in 1930, a law came into force in the then Indian subcontinent restraining child marriage.

Keeping intact a provision that allows marriage of underage girls and boys in “special circumstances”, the Jatiya Sangsad last night passed the Child Marriage Restraint Bill 2017 with 18 and 21 as minimum marriageable age for women and men respectively.

Last time the world witnessed a phenomenal growth in agricultural productivity was back in the 60s.

It has been seven long years since water resources ministers of Bangladesh and India last met to talk about Teesta at the platform of Joint Rivers Commission (JRC). Since then Bangladesh has been more than ready about holding a meeting of the JRC, an official instrument devised jointly by Bangladesh and India back in 1972, to resolve water disputes and harness common water resources for mutual and regional benefits.

Regulators are having a hard time curbing the worrisome rise in air pollution in the country largely because of a “culture of non-compliance” with laws.

As the Child Marriage Restraint Act is about to be passed in parliament, the government and rights bodies continue to be at loggerheads over a provision that permits wedlock prior to one reaching the minimum marriageable age.

It takes seven months to produce 2,000kgs of pabda (Ompok) from a fish farm the size of a football pitch. How about getting the same results in half the time from an indoor space that is hardly the size of a penalty box?

The National Seed Board has approved a range of rice, wheat, potato and kenaf varieties with promises of higher productivity, and better resistance to disease and stress.