The environment of the Khajanagar-Kaburhat area in Kushtia's Sadar upazila is facing severe pollution due to the unchecked dumping of waste from automatic rice mills, thanks to the millers' failure to ...

In the past few years, rapid technological change occurred in the rice milling sector of Bangladesh. Several hundred automatic and semi-automatic rice mills were set up in various areas across the ...

The indefinite blockade and the intermittent hartals enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance is now taking toll on the rice industry threatening the food security of the country to a great extent.

The cost of transporting rice from Kushtia, the largest supplier of the food staple, to Dhaka has increased by at least 22 percent per truck, leading to an increase in the price of rice by Tk 12 per ...

Rice millers in the district are incurring huge losses due to non-stop countrywide blockade enforced by BNP-led 20-party alliance. Thousands of labourers of different rice mills have also become ...

Ten others were also burnt, some of them badly, in the explosion at the Jamuna Auto Rice Mill in Raniganj on Apr 19. A doctor at Rangpur Medical College Hospital told bdnews24.com that six victims ...

Encroachments by a rice mill owned by former minister K N Nehru’s younger brother Manivannan were removed at Poovalur village near Lalgudi here on Sunday. Revenue officials had received complaints ...

Officials of the public works department (PWD) on Sunday demolished a small portion of a rice mill owned by former DMK minister K N Nehru’s brother, K N Manivannan in Poovalur near Lalgudi in Trichy, ...