Toxic temptation: The hidden danger of food colours and adulteration in Bangladesh
30 November 2025, 00:51 AM
Food safety
Nearly 282 million people faced acute hunger in 2023: UN-led report
24 April 2024, 16:47 PM
Food safety
Bangladesh, Denmark to collaborate on food safety, sustainable production
17 August 2023, 12:02 PM
Food safety
Dead chickens supplied to Dhaka restaurants!
22 March 2023, 14:43 PM
Food safety
Food safety authority starts issuing health certificate for food items
13 November 2022, 12:21 PM
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Slow poisoning from food served in printed or used paper
23 April 2022, 18:00 PM
Food safety
9 judges, among 30, suffer food poisoning after iftar in Pabna
21 April 2022, 19:30 PM
Food safety
Watch what you eat and drink
14 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Food safety
Did you know? / More than half of parents and pregnant women exposed to aggressive formula milk marketing
5 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Food safety
How much is too much coffee? UK man dies from overdose
3 March 2022, 06:26 AM
Food safety
Netherlands embassy launches 3 food safety projects in Bangladesh
About 60 million people in rural and urban areas of Bangladesh face food insecurity, and do not consume the minimal daily caloric intake required for a healthy life, according to the World Food Programme.
7 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Dangers lurk in urban street food
Street food, which is very popular to the people living in urban areas like Dhaka due to its cheap price and taste, is harmful to human
10 January 2016, 18:00 PM
BSTI fines 2 oil companies in Ctg
A mobile court of Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) in Chittagong city yesterday fined two oil
26 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Woman dies in train drinking juice from co-passenger
A woman died after drinking poisonous juice, offered by a doping gang member, in a running train, Meghna Express, in Laksham on
18 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh’s foods safety and public health at risk
Substandard, fake and even banned pesticides are making their way into the market mainly because of lax monitoring, posing a grave threat to safe food production and public health, experts say.
15 December 2015, 18:00 PM
8 ‘robbers’ beaten dead in Narayanganj
A mob beats seven suspected robbers to death when they were looting a shop in Araihazar upazila of Narayanganj. Their identities could not be known immediately.
10 December 2015, 03:40 AM
One of sick dies
A cattle trader, who was among the 30 people who fell unconscious after eating breakfast at a restaurant in Rajshahi, died yesterday.
7 September 2015, 18:00 PM
Twelve jailed for producing, storing adulterated food items
Mobile courts backed by Rapid Action Battalion yesterday jailed 12 persons for storing and manufacturing adulterated food items in Dhaka and Narayanganj.
16 August 2015, 18:00 PM
UP chairman arrested in Sunamganj
Police on Monday arrested a union parishad (UP) chairman in Bishwambharpur upazila of the district on charge of misappropriating rice under Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) programme.
15 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Pesticide in litchi kills kids, again
Swapan, a six-year-old kid, woke up restless at midnight and wanted to drink some water. After drinking water, his eyes dilated and he could hardly speak. Then he fainted.
26 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Increase drive against adulterated food: Bapa
Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (Bapa) yesterday demanded that the government increase drives against the sale and marketing of
19 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Housewife commits 'suicide'
A housewife allegedly committed suicide in Mathbaria upazila of the district on Tuesday. The deceased is Sumi Begum, 22, wife of Jasim
17 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Safe food, iftar items demanded in Ramadan
All types of food including iftar items during Ramadan have to be free from adulteration, demanded some social and environmental
13 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Food should be right, not welfare
With the vision of making South Asia free from hunger, academics, development activists, and politicians from the region yesterday
31 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Destiny MD Rafiqul denied bail
High Court denies bail to two Destiny high officials including its owner Rafiqul Amin in two money laundering cases filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission.
13 May 2015, 12:14 PM
Cleanliness, healthy food must: Experts
Only healthy food is not enough to ensure a child's physical development. Cleanliness and good hygiene practice are also important to
13 April 2015, 18:00 PM
RMG factory shut as 100 workers fall sick after 'eating its snacks'
The authorities of a garment factory in Kashimpur of Gazipur shut down the factory yesterday after over a hundred of its workers fell
2 April 2015, 18:00 PM
BNP for foreign probe to find Salahuddin
BNP voices for the involvement of foreign investigation agencies to locate its missing leader Salahuddin Ahmed
20 March 2015, 09:22 AM
4 firms fined for food adulteration
A mobile court penalised four business establishments in Chittagong city for having unhygienic manufacturing environment.
13 March 2015, 18:42 PM