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VegetablesThe agriculture ministry's Tk 199 crore rabi incentive of 2 November covers seven crops but nothing for onion, after output rose about 30 percent in two years; experts fear a return to imports.
IslamHajja Maryam al-Rumaymah of Taiz province began memorising the Quran in her sixties in 2006 and completed it in 2016, through years of war and siege.
OpinionMd. Sabuj Mia, a political science student at Rajshahi University, writes in Amar Desh that filling and encroachment are turning small rivers into dead drains, and that saving rivers means saving farming, fisheries and biodiversity.
IslamCiting The Telegraph, Amar Desh reports that interest-free student finance built on the takaful principle could start next academic year, with a "contribution" equal to the interest set aside to fund future students.
EnvironmentOmar Yaghi's company Atoco is building machines that trap water vapour in metal-organic frameworks and release it with waste industrial heat; a test unit makes up to 300 litres a day and the target is 1,000.
OpinionThe UN climate conference meets in Antalya, Turkey, from 9 to 20 November. In a column in Amar Desh, Syed Abdal Ahmed draws on UNEP, WMO and Lancet figures to set out Bangladesh's exposure between the Himalaya and the Bay of Bengal.
EnvironmentParts of an embankment at Bajalia in Satkania, Chattogram, have collapsed into the Sangu River, halting a Tk 19 lakh geo-tube repair and threatening homes, farmland and a road.
EnvironmentWildlife officers rescued parakeets, whistling ducks, doves and a swamphen at Dhelapir Haat in Nilphamari and released them into the wild.
Saplings bought for Tk 900 in Cox's Bazar fruited in seven months at Phulbari. Each fruit sells at Tk 50, and Ripon has raised more than 300 seedlings.
CropsGazipur Agricultural University and JIRCAS will study soybean rust and leaf blight, and test non-GM resistant varieties in Bangladesh's fields to cut farmers' costs and losses.
VegetablesResearchers at Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University report raising brinjal and okra with endophytic bacteria and no chemical pesticide or fungicide, and have built a machine for liquid biofertiliser.
HealthIn a trial at BIRDEM and a Sylhet hospital, average depression scores fell from 19.1 to 8.6 six months after behavioural activation therapy, against 17.1 for patients on usual care.
LivestockYoung Islamic scholar Md Aminul Islam, director of the Najah Duck Farm and Hatchery, received the best successful young entrepreneur award in Madan, Netrokona, on National Youth Day.
