Reaz Ahmad

Nearly three years into the elimination of a highly contagious bird flu virus in the country, a recent outbreak of the particular strain of avian influenza resulted in deaths of 3,000 birds at a poultry farm in the capital's outskirt Dhamrai.

A year after its first outbreak, wheat blast has reemerged and this time quite early in the season, causing fears of production loss of the country's second most important cereal after rice.

With a fifth of the country's yearly jute exports at stake following India's imposition of anti-dumping duty on import of jute products from Bangladesh and Nepal, a national jute advisory committee meeting yesterday decided to engage immediately with India for lifting the duty.

Vegetable production has more than doubled in just over a decade, making Bangladesh one of the fastest-growing vegetable producers in the world. The growth in recent years stems from better seeds and technologies as opposed to the growths in the 80s and early 90s when more agro land was dedicated to vegetable farming.

Three years after the release of Bt Brinjal, Bangladesh is going to get its second genetically modified (GM) crop -- a disease resistant potato -- as scientists have sought government approval for its commercial use.

Girls being married off before reaching adulthood, too many teenage pregnancies and subsequent births of babies with low

It has been nearly two months since Bob Dylan was declared winner of this year's Nobel in literature, making him the only singer-songwriter to win the award.

Thanks to a favourable monsoon and buoyant prices that Aman growers across the country get a reason to rejoice after a rather unhappy ending of Boro season. With over 80 percent paddy already harvested, the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation have projected a bumper Aman output -- 13.6 million tonnes -- marginally surpassing last year's record high of 13.5 million tonnes.

In a world where as many as 700 million women were married off before they could reach adulthood, we'll only contribute to that statistic by keeping such loopholes in a law which is supposed to protect the childhood of our girls.

Child marriage in Bangladesh has come down to around 43 per cent from 62.3 per cent in the last two decades, finds a new research by the Washington-based think tank International Food Policy Research Institute.

Economic growth and poverty reduction alone cannot solve the problem of undernutrition. Had that been the case,

This season, the government is withholding wheat cultivation in eight south and southwestern districts to prevent the

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.

Bangladesh is graduating to a middle-income country and developing fast, but it needs to address the remaining

Long gone are the days when we sipped soft drinks from glass bottles and returned the empty bottles to our neighbourhood

A battery-run rickshaw consumes over 960Wh electricity every time it is charged.

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.

Subtly and silently maize, also known as corn, has emerged as the most important cereal crop after rice in Bangladesh, relegating wheat to third.

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.

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.