Eminence Associates for Social Development and Bangladesh Civil Society Network for Promoting Nutrition (BCSNPN) have recently jointly

Baby food, vegetables, fruit, cereals, meat, fish and other foodstuffs will have to meet stricter limits of cadmium and lead content before they can be sold in the European Union, according to new rules that will be applicable from the end of August.

Ten years ago, I wrote a Tangents column called “Grandmother’s Diet.” The idea was this: in this age of processed and factory manufactured food, how does one choose what’s best for health? The notion – originally presented by Michael Pollan - is to avoid items that your great-grandmother (or, in my case, my grandmothers) would not recognize as food.

Culinary sensation Kishwar Chowdhury is the first Bangladeshi-Australian to secure the third place in the internationally renowned cooking show, MasterChef Australia. She fought for the title of MasterChef Australia against Justin Narayan and Pete Campbell. She took home $20,000 in prize money to get her food dream off the ground. The talented cook is currently training under Michelin star chef Masahiko Yomoda, who was present in the MasterChef kitchen during the bento box challenge this year.

The food ministry today launched a decade-long plan for achieving the objectives of the National Food and Nutrition Security Policy (NFNSP).

People can now purchase essential products of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) at less than market prices online.

Bangladesh will need to produce over 44 million metric tons of rice to meet the growing demand for a projected population of 215 million by 2050.

The agriculture ministry's seed wing is thinking over formally introducing four Indian rice varieties, as the neighbouring country has done recently and as some popular varieties are being collected by Bangladeshi farmers through border trade.

Stressing the importance of diversifying the country's export basket with various agro-products, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said Bangladesh can exploit the opportunity of exporting organic foods as those have huge demand in the global market.

A Supreme Court lawyer in a legal notice requests the Election Commission to deploy army to create a level-playing field for the upcoming municipality polls.

A teenage boy drowned in a pond at Kandiarchar in South Surma upazila of Sylhet district around 4:00pm on Tuesday.

Three injury marks of sharp weapons were found on the body of Faisal Arefin Dipan, owner of Jagriti Prokashani who was hacked to death yesterday, the autopsy report says.

People of Nawabganj upazila under Dinajpur district observed Chararhat killing day yesterday.

Police arrest a wanted human trafficker who is also a Union Parishad member in Cox's Bazar Sadar upazila.

Law enforcers claim arrest of five human traffickers from Cox’s Bazar in purview of the worldwide concern over the illegal business.

Farmers are compelled to harvest unripe paddy from their fields of Hakaluki Haor in Kulaura upazila under Moulvibazar district yesterday as the crop on large areas of land went under water due to last few days' downpour.

Death-row war criminal Kamaruzzaman gets time to talk to his lawyers to consult whether to seek presidential clemency after the copy of SC ruling rejecting his appeal to review his sentence reached Dhaka jail, where he has been kept.

Two schoolgirls, who went missing on March 28, were found dead at Dovagi village in Shibganj upazila of the district yesterday afternoon.

A fish trader was hacked to death by another fish trader over a trivial matter in Sadar upazila yesterday morning.

Police seized firearms and ammunition from an abandoned house of listed criminal Farid at Palerhaat village in Laxmipur Sadar upazila