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HealthAlthough dengue vaccines are in use in 43 countries including India and Indonesia, Bangladesh is not yet considering approval; the state minister for health says a final decision could come once measles is under control.
As the water falls and the current strengthens, at least 350 homes and hundreds of bighas of cropland at Namojagannathpur and Badshahpara have gone into the Padma; the water board says work on a Tk 748 crore project will start once the water drops.
About 50 students, teachers and staff at a secondary school in Kalapara, Patuakhali, fell ill with convulsions and breathlessness; the hospital doctor described it as hysteria, a psychological condition.
CookingBrought from Central Asia in the 14th century, the royal mutton feast now runs to about 20 dishes, though the wooden mallets and slow wood fires have not changed.
HealthA team led by surgeon Yoshiki Sawa placed a sheet of heart-muscle cells made from iPS cells on the heart of a woman in her fifties; 75 more patients are planned by 2033.
Police in Mithamain, Kishoreganj arrested two men moving 111 sacks of subsidised urea meant for farmers to another union without permission; a licensed dealer is among four accused.
Netrokona grew jute on 2,840 hectares this season against a 4,510-hectare target; high wages, a lack of water for retting and poor prices are pushing farmers towards vegetables and mustard.
With the Bay of Bengal depression now a deep depression and signal 3 hoisted at four sea ports, a fishing trawler sank off Rangabali on Tuesday evening; all nine aboard were rescued.
After Ekattor TV's 19 September report, the district administration on Monday set up a committee headed by the district fisheries officer, to report within seven working days; the 15,000 sacks of 60 kg hold about 22,500 maunds worth roughly Tk 2.25 crore at retail, and DC Marzina Akter says negligen
Citing the Forest and Tree Conservation Act 2026, the upazila administration in Faridpur's Alfadanga has made prior permission from the divisional forest officer mandatory before cutting trees even on private land, with cases under section 10 for violators, and spent a day announcing the rule by lou
Meeting Ministry of Agriculture officials at the Secretariat, Prime Minister Tarique Rahman ordered effective steps to grow at home what Bangladesh can grow; the ministry reported mustard output up from 824,000 to 1.541 million tonnes in three years, 1,090 crop varieties, 2,617 solar irrigation syst
Fisherman Anando Haldar's net caught a 22 kg pangas near the Daulatdia ferry ghat, which a fish wholesaler bought for Tk 33,000.
