The government has approved commercial cultivation of genetically modified eggplant resistant to insect damage, marking a significant breakthrough after seven years of research, a top official said Friday.
Bangladesh becomes the 29th country in the world to commercially grow a genetically modified crop. Genetic modification of crops is one of the most controversial and polarizing issues in global agriculture. It is contested by environmental activists on concerns over food safety even as scientists research on transgenic crops to tackle drought, salinity and pest-related problems in agriculture.
"Cultivation of four varieties of Bt brinjal [eggplant] has been approved by the environment ministry and planting will start this month," Director General of the Bangladesh Agricultural R...
Although women trafficking from Bangladesh to various destinations, including India, is not new, the malady has taken an alarming proportion as the traffickers are using 20 transit points along Bangladesh-India border comfortably.
Twenty-eight districts of Bangladesh have common borders with India and two districts have borders with Myanmar, and those are being used by the traffickers in human trafficking, especially women and children.
According to intelligence sources, the frontier areas of Khulna, Jessore, Satkhira, Rajshahi, Dinajpur, Rangpur, Mymensingh, Comilla, Brahmanbaria, and Sylhet are frequently used as land routes for human trafficking, reports UNB.
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UN climate talks ran deep into extra time in Warsaw on Saturday as rich and poor nations butted heads over their respective contributions to staving off dangerous planet warming.
Exhausted negotiators and ministers shuttled to and fro in the early morning hours to try and lay some groundwork for an ambitious climate pact which must be signed in Paris by December 2015.
Nations remain deeply divided, delegates said.
They argued over apportioning carbon emissions curbs seeking to limit average global warming to 2.0 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), and over funding for climate-vulnerable poor countries.
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Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) said that the next government of Bangladesh should act quickly to reform the existing legal framework, including labor laws for Export Processing Zones, and bring it into conformity with international labor standards.
Senator Robert Menendez issued a committee report on Friday in Washington on safeguarding and advancing gains in labor rights for Bangladesh’s garment workers.
The government of Bangladesh and BGMEA should immediately develop and...
Md. Nurul Islam, Deputy Managing Director of Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd (IBBL) has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Jaiz Bank of Nigeria. He is discharging this duty on deputation to materialize the agreement between IBBL and Jaiz Bank for Management and Technical support.
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Mohammad Abdul Mannan, Managing Director of IBBL giving reception to Md. Nurul Islam recently at the eve of his flying to Nigeria to join as CEO of Jaiz Bank.[/caption]
Under the agreement, signed in 2011 IBB...
Shahjalal Islami Bank Limited (SJIBL) opened its 87th Branch at Bandura in Nawbabgonj, Dhaka Saturday (23-11-2013). Director and former chairman of the bank Akkas Uddin Mollah formally inaugurated the branch as chief guest.
Among others, Bank’s managing director Md. Abdur Rahman Sarker, deputy managing director Md. Abdul Jabber Chowdhury and former member of parliament Khandaker Harunur Rashid were present on the occasion.
Akkas Uddin M...
