Dhaka: Fisheries and Livestock Minister Abul Latif Biswas on Wednesday said the government planned to increase the country's fish production to 3478,000 metric tons by 2013.

Pabna: Tuberculosis has taken an alarming turn as 56 people died of the disease in the district in last 15 months.

The government on Monday signed a loan agreement of $75 million(approximately Tk 524 crore) with Asian Development Bank(ADB) to expand reliable access to potable water in Khulna city.
Economics Relations Division (ERD) Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan and ADB country director Thevakumar Kandiah signed the agreement on behalf of Bangladesh and ADB respectively at NEC-II in city's Sher-e-Bangl

DHAKA: The government on Monday signed a loan agreement of $75 million(approximately Tk 524 crore) with Asian Development Bank(ADB) to expand reliable access to potable water in Khulna city.

The government will sign an agreement with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Monday for $75 million in soft loans to expand reliable access to potable water in Khulna city.
Economics Relations Division (ERD) Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan and ADB country director Thevakumar Kandiah will sign the loan agreement on behalf of Bangladesh and ADB respectively at the NEC-II in city's Sher-e-Ba

SANGSAD BHABAN: The government has undertaken a master plan under the Vision-2021 to reach electricity facilities to every village of the country, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resou

Bangladesh is going to achieve its food security through large-scale farming of flash-flood tolerant variety Aman paddies by producing additional six million tonnes paddy annually in near future, e

After a year in which food inflation reached 10 per cent, the price of basic food items in Bangladesh increased in the first half of 2011, according to a recent Oxfam report.
The report said as a net food importer, Bangladesh depends on the international market for additional food imports, and changes in global prices are expected to have a local impact.

Industries Minister Dilip Barua proposed to form a Green Energy Fund to help increase energy efficiency of affected least developed countries (LDCs) of the world due to climate change.

Narsingdi: Continuous dumping of garbage, waste and chemical-mixed poisonous wastes of local industries are polluting water of the Old Brahamaputra, Haridoa, Arial Kha and Kalagasia rivers posing s