Reaz Ahmad

Bangladesh topped the list of all the developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank in terms of loan disbursement ratio last year, followed by China, Pakistan, India and Vietnam.

The Asian Development Bank is ready to partner with Bangladesh in generating clean and renewable energies, including solar,

Bangladesh should seize the opportunities that China is creating by slowly retreating from the export markets, said Yasuyuki Sawada, chief economist of the Asian Development Bank, yesterday.

Keeping the looming water scarcity in mind, the Asian Development Bank has nearly doubled its allocation for water sector projects across Asia to $4.2 billion this year, up from an average yearly funding of $2.4 billion in the last six years.

A third of hog plums and a sixth of guavas that the country produces each year are grown in three southwestern

For the first time in recent years, Bangladesh is set to experience a less productive rice season owing to a huge loss of Boro crops. Back-to-back disasters -- flashfloods, intense rainfall and fungal disease blast attacks -- have come as a blow to Boro, the biggest of the country's three rice seasons. The other two seasons are Aus and Aman.

A government dispatched experts' team reached Sunamganj yesterday to collect water samples from the haors there for lab test at the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission to ascertain whether there is any radioactive materials in the waters.

Bangladesh experiences flash floods ever so often and farmers are no stranger to crop loss as a result. But the deaths of fish, frogs and fowls in their hundreds as an aftermath of such floods are a new phenomenon altogether.

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.