Modernising rice breeding

In the face of mounting challenges like population growth, climate change, and shrinking arable land, Bangladesh must urgently reform its approach to rice production. As the backbone of the country's food security, rice constitutes 97 per cent of grain production and supplies over half of the nation's caloric and protein...

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Arefin Siddique: Journalism loses a guardian

I was in deep sleep in the middle of the night, when the call came with the shocking news of my dear friend Arefin’s passing away. A few days earlier I had heard Arefin fell ill while trying to draw some money at an ATM booth at Dhaka Club. He...

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Gearing up financial literacy

Financial Literacy Day was celebrated for the third time in Bangladesh on March 3 this year. In 2022, a circular of Bangladesh Bank decided to observe Financial Literacy Day on the first Monday of March every year. In light of the same circular, Bangladesh Bank published the 'Financial Literacy Guidelines...

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