THE losses incurred by a growing waste of food 鈥� before, during and after the harvest of agricultural produces 鈥� stand to threaten food security. A government study, Estimation of Overall Food Losses and Waste at all Levels of the Food Chain that the horticulture department of the Bangladesh Agricultural University conducted and made public in...
The government on Wednesday approved separate proposals for importing 400,000 tonnes of wheat and 200,000 tonnes of rice within 15 days...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a ban on importing pharmaceutical raw materials and selling foreign medicines without prior approval from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare...
RENTAL power plants, set up as an emergency measure under an indemnity law to resolve power shortage soon after the Awami League had assumed office in 2009 that ended in a permanent arrangement to drain the state exchequer by channelling public money into private pockets through capacity charge payment, have not only been a great burden to the economy...
Bangladesh spent 20 per cent extra in the overall import of furnace oil for power generation during the tenure of the immediate past Awami League government thanks to the...
The US government said Friday it will work to curb the 鈥榦veruse and abuse鈥� of a mechanism allowing lower-value imports to enter the country duty-free, as concerns grow over Chinese shipments.
The Bangladesh Bank has instructed banks to keep a 100-per cent cash margin for importing 14 luxury goods including gold, cosmetics, processed food, soft drinks, and leather goods to overcome foreign exchange crisis...
The National Board of Revenue on Thursday reduced customs duties on import of onions, potatoes and pesticides to stabilise the supply of the essential commodities...
Export and import activities between Bangladesh and India have resumed via railway through Benapole land port on Wednesday morning, after being suspended for 47 days...
Beijing on Wednesday launched a probe into EU subsidies of some dairy products imported into China, the day after the bloc said it planned to impose five-year import duties of up to 36 per cent on Chinese electric vehicles...
A total of 58 metric tonnes of garlic was imported for the first time through Mongla Sea Port on Sunday, a press release issued by Md Makruzzaman, deputy director of communication of the Mongla Port Authority said in a press release on Monday...
The United States unveiled stricter rules Wednesday on steel and aluminium imports from Mexico, moving to prevent China-origin goods from avoiding tariffs...
The finance bill for the upcoming financial year 2024鈥�25 is likely to be passed in parliament on Saturday, with the government backtracking from the imposition of a 25 per cent duty on car imports by lawmakers...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday reiterated her country鈥檚 eagerness to import hydroelectricity from Bhutan through India when Bhutanese prime minister Dasho Tshering Tobgay paid a courtesy call on her in New Delhi...
Finance Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Thursday requested the members of parliament to set a noble example by amending the privilege of importing duty-free cars for personal use....
Bangladesh government will import a cargo of liquefied natural gas from Singapore....
Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Sunday urged the United Kingdom to import more from Bangladesh...
EU states agreed on Thursday to impose 鈥榩rohibitive鈥� duties on grain imports from Russia in a bid to cut off revenues to Moscow for its war on Ukraine...
The import of green chilli has been started through Hili port in the district after six months....
Around 370 tonnes of potatoes, which are waiting to be unloaded four days after being imported from India have started to rot, due to severe heat sweeping across Bangladesh....
Bangladesh government asked the private sector to import 1,24,000 tonnes of rice immediately within a month aiming to further arrest the rice price in the retail market across the country, an official order issued by the Ministry of Food said on Wednesday....
Import restrictions on luxury items and other policies implemented by the government during the past two years have failed to tackle the dollar shortage and ease the economic crisis.