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LivestockTwenty-five field-level dairy entrepreneurs from Hathazari, Cumilla and Mirsarai completed five days of hands-on training at Chattogram Veterinary and Animal Sciences University.
Umar Yamaoka travelled to Makkah for Hajj in 1909, the first Japanese whose pilgrimage is historically recognised; Japan's first Muslim was the journalist Shotaro Noda.
The Holy Quran Museum in Makkah's Hira Cultural District is displaying a Quran manuscript written in thuluth script in the ninth century of the Hijri calendar.
EnvironmentMuch of the West Deuri government primary school and cyclone shelter in Jhalokathi Sadar has fallen into the Bishkhali river and the rest is at risk, while riverside homes and farmland face the same erosion.
Islamic teaching holds that a believer does not sit in despair after a wrong, but recognises it and turns back to Allah quickly, and the five daily prayers are the regular means of that return.
A mobile court in Madarganj, Jamalpur, fined a food trader Tk 10,000 and seized 250 kilograms of rice for illegally buying and hoarding VGF rice allocated to fishermen during the hilsa breeding ban.
The King Abdulaziz Foundation for Research and Archives has published a historical map marking the places in Madinah where the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) offered prayers.
EnvironmentLama Forest Division in Bandarban handed government cheques totalling Tk 2,159,000 to 66 families harmed by wild elephant attacks, as the chief conservator urged protection of elephant habitat and corridors.
IslamUK barrister Nazir Ahmed writes that British-Bangladeshi dual citizens may perform Hajj on Bangladesh's quota, but switching passports on the way home without telling the authorities is legally and morally risky.
IslamGood character, keeping family ties, praying in congregation, answering the call to prayer, fasting three days a month and reciting the Quran are among ten simple deeds Barta24's Islam desk lists with their hadith sources.
HealthConsumer-rights officials fined M R Consumers Products at Bahaddarhat after finding ghee made with no milk at all, from palm oil, artificial flavour and harmful colouring; the stock was destroyed.
FruitsAlamin, an educated young man from Bajitpur in Mirpur, Kushtia, has planted about 170 malta and orange trees after his plan to work abroad fell through; officials visited and advised him.
EnvironmentA 2022-23 study recorded 23 mammal species in Inani National Park, three of them critically endangered; settlements, roads and construction threaten to squeeze their habitat.
