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EnvironmentResearchers found plastic waste 15 to 17 years old 15 feet down in the Buriganga's bed; fish from the river carry more microplastics than fish from the Bay of Bengal, and Sundarbans water holds 23.25 particles a litre.
Daily lifeFourteen production wells supply 10,332 cubic metres a day to 9,482 customers; with the water table falling and old tube wells dead, new wells, tanks and pipelines have been proposed.
A 50 kg bag of the state-owned sugar company's Sonar Dana organic fertiliser costs Tk 900, while farmers are paying Tk 2,500 to 3,000 for a bag of chemical fertiliser.
State Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr M A Muhit says urban health care, now split among city corporations, municipalities and NGOs, will be brought into the national health system, with 100,000 more health workers and ward-level health units planned.
HealthExecutive magistrates of Dhaka North City Corporation fined households Tk 177,500 in 28 cases after finding Aedes mosquito larvae in Mirpur, Rupnagar, Pallabi, Agargaon, Uttara, Nikunja and Baridhara.
EnvironmentThe water resources ministry has sent a proposal for a feasibility study of about Tk 23 crore on the Teesta master plan to the Planning Commission; the plan covers bank protection, dredging, embankments and reclaiming 170 sq km of land.
FisheriesBangladesh produced 5.119 million tonnes of fish in FY2024-25, but growth fell to 1.85 percent, the lowest in five years, as reliance on commercial farming, rising costs and degraded open waters weigh on the sector.
HealthA special measles-rubella campaign for about 3.4 million children aged six to 59 months began on Saturday and runs to 31 October; the health minister says 5.8 million doses are in stock.
CropsAfter hill run-off drowned the Boro crop last Baishakh, haor farmers brought home less than half a normal harvest and now face the market.
Under the World Bank-financed, PKSF-supported SMART project run by the Rural Reconstruction Foundation, 36 solar irrigation pumps have gone in across Sadar, Kotchandpur and Maheshpur; running costs are less than half those of diesel, and border-area flower growers are selling water to neighbours.
Fishers at Ponabalia, Deuri and Nalchity's Matibhanga cast their nets and come back near empty; district fisheries officer Enamul Haque says the June-September catch missed its target, and while other districts' rivers teemed with hilsa this year the Sugandha and Bishkhali did not, possibly because
