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Cook Afroza Khanam Mukta's duck bhuna: skin-on duck marinated for two hours in yoghurt and spices, cooked down in mustard oil and finished with garam masala, sugar and ghee.
HealthDr Kakoli Haldar, an assistant professor at Dhaka Medical College, says breast cancer found early is fully curable with the right treatment; she advises monthly self-examination from age 20, a yearly clinical exam and mammograms after 40.
FisheriesMore than 100 amateur fishers at Tora, Mirzapur and Rathura in Baniajuri, Ghior, and at least 300 on a branch of the Ichamati caught fish with polo bamboo traps; over 100 such events are expected across Manikganj in October, amid worries that current nets and poison are depleting native fish.
CookingA medium pineapple, a cup of sugar, a tempering of dried chillies and mustard seeds in mustard oil and a squeeze of lemon make a homemade pineapple chutney; the recipe is by chef Afroza Khanam Mukta.
EnvironmentMore than a hundred trees, some 40 to 50 years old, have been cut on railway and government land at Faujdarhat in Sitakunda, Chattogram; locals say a group is levelling hillocks for a container depot, while the railway says it knows nothing.
AgribusinessBangladesh Bank raised this year's agricultural and rural credit target from Tk 39,000 crore to Tk 60,000 crore, but banks lent Tk 6,858 crore in July and August, 11.43 percent of it; defaults have risen to 42.38 percent of farm loans.
CookingIn cook Afroza Khanom Mukta's recipe, large prawns and grated pineapple cook without any water in the pineapple's own juice and are served in the pineapple shell.
OpinionWriting in Ajker Patrika, Shykh Seraj notes that 90% of Bangladesh's land is now prepared by machine and about 80% of irrigation is mechanised, but only 10 to 15% of rice is harvested by machine; subsidies should go to small machines for small farmers.
Rooftop farmingBasel has required gardens on every new flat roof since 2002; the records of Stuttgart, London, Singapore and Toronto show that green-roof cities are built by policy and incentives.
EnvironmentSand was dumped overnight into a pond of about 30 decimals that Government Barishal College authorities reportedly want for a hostel; the city corporation halted the work and the Department of Environment, finding the filling confirmed, is issuing a notice.
HealthMobile court raids on three adulterated jaggery factories in Bagha, Rajshahi, destroyed 45 maunds of gur and imposed Tk 10,000 in fines; 27 sacks of seized sugar were given to an orphanage.
FisheriesSince wild sturgeon fishing was banned in 2006, farmed sturgeon, above all from China, has pushed caviar prices down; China now supplies about 44 per cent of world caviar exports, and a wholesale tin that cost $500 now sells for under $200.
LivestockFormer Seattle cheese factory worker Trevor Warmedahl has travelled to more than 20 countries in six years to learn traditional cheese and herding, from Mongolia's aaruul to Georgia's Tushuri guda.
