Speakers identified major risk factors behind micronutrient malnutrition, including monotonous diets, low intake of animal-source foods, poor dietary diversity, poverty, recurrent infections, ...

Food companies will no longer be allowed to use doctors, nutritionists or other health experts to endorse their products, as the authorities have introduced rules to curb misleading health claims and ...

Two siblings, aged 10 years and 14 months, died within hours under unusual circumstances in Dhaka yesterday (20 December), with family members and police suspecting food poisoning as the cause. The ...

Police have recovered the bodies of two siblings from a residence in Dhaka's Hatirjheel area, suspecting that they may have died due to food poisoning. The deceased are Afrida Chowdhury, 10, a class ...

Speakers at a human chain on Sunday demanded strict enforcement of existing laws to stop salt, shrimp and crab farming on agricultural land and called for alternative livelihoods and rehabilitation ...

Can Pakistan adopt digital agriculture quickly enough? Broad-based initiatives are urgently needed to improve environmental sustainability across the globe, especially in agricultural economies like ...

The US unemployment rate rose to 4.6pc in November, its highest in more than four years, fueling questions about ...