4+ hour, 52+ min ago   (319+ words) A total of 352,786 kilograms of Hilsa fish was imported from India through Benapole land port in the first two months of the 2026-2027 fiscal year. The fish, imported by 22 commercial enterprises across July and August, was valued at over Tk 69.2 million…...

19+ hour, 2+ min ago   (469+ words) For many young people, Japanese culture doesn't start with a travel brochure or a novel. It starts on a screen. A character in a hit anime slurps a steaming bowl of ramen. Or opens a neatly packed bento box. The…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (832+ words) Prices of bakery products are set to rise up to 20 per cent while some low-priced items become smaller in size without a change in their sticker rate through shrinkflation as bakers cite spikes in ingredient costs. Prices of flour, sugar,…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1281+ words) Sunday • 13 September 2026 There is no restaurant, no storefront, no registered business address. There is a kitchen, a Facebook page, a WhatsApp number, and a woman who built all of it herself. Her business, Truty Fruty, earns her Tk 20,000 to 30,000 in…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (899+ words) There is a particular kind of hush that falls over a table the moment mundi arrives, steam rising off the bowl, the smell of coriander and lime cutting through the noise of a Dhaka evening. Over the last few years,…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (828+ words) Tuesday • 8 September 2026 India is witnessing an unprecedented food safety crackdown, with regulators forcing many local eateries and branded restaurants to suspend operations, while a push for front-of-pack warning labels has rattled the country's more than $100 billion packaged food industry. Here's…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (789+ words) For the past two weeks, there has been a shortage of one-litre bottles of soybean oil at different markets in Dhaka. Five-litre bottles were available, but many found one-litre bottles hard to come by except at larger shops. However, after…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (556+ words) The fields are turning green as farmers work from dawn to dusk to grow early varieties of winter vegetables across the northern districts, hoping to recover from last year’s losses and earn a better return this season. Although winter is…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (603+ words) Prices of a number of essential commodities, particularly vegetables and onions, declined in city retail markets in a week, while the edible oil market continued to face a supply crunch despite a Tk 5.0 per litre hike in the price of…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (919+ words) The FE - The bitter business of making tea The Financial Express Tea is part of daily life in Bangladesh to a degree that is difficult to overstate. It is there from the first light of morning, through work breaks and…...