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A pure food court found the factory of Natore town's well-known Mouchak bakery making undated bread, biscuits and chanachur in dirty conditions beside a cattle farm, and fined the owner Tk 2 lakh.
IslamIn a hadith in Sunan al-Tirmidhi, the Prophet (pbuh) said that what most leads people to Paradise is God-consciousness and good character, and what most leads to Hell is the tongue and the private parts; one quality concerns Allah, the other people.
Daily lifeAccording to India's food safety regulator FSSAI, shaking milk and watching how long the foam lasts can suggest whether detergent has been added, but the test cannot show whether milk is pure or adulterated.
IslamMufti Abdul Qayyum says a phone may be used in the mosque for real needs while keeping its etiquette, but entertainment, idle social media use and disturbing worshippers should be avoided.
HealthHealth state minister Dr M A Muhit says dengue now kills three in every thousand patients against five in earlier years, crediting a plan made four months ago and doctor training, but urges households to clear standing water.
Doctors posted to the five health sub-centres of Araihazar, Narayanganj, are attached elsewhere or absent; pharmacists and midwives run some centres and Kalapahariya is closed.
Daily lifeThe LPG traders' cooperative says sales will stop indefinitely if demands are not met after the two days; only six or seven companies are active and several lakh cylinders lie unused, it says.
HealthA Lancet Public Health review of 57 studies linked 7,000 daily steps, against 2,000, with a 47% lower risk of early death, and a separate study found walking pace matters too.
AgribusinessThe Department of Agricultural Marketing has sent the agriculture ministry a draft plan for a complex on about five acres beside Osmani airport, with a 1,000-tonne cold store, grading and packing lines and ten testing laboratories.
EnvironmentEven as the water falls, the Padma and Arial Khan are swallowing homes and cropland in Sadarpur, Faridpur, and farmers are cutting half-ripe paddy as cattle feed before the river takes it.
FisheriesGoonch catfish (baghair) of 30 to 100 kg are taken from the Jamuna on the Madarganj-Sariakandi border and sold almost daily at Balijuri bazar for Tk 1,000 to 1,500 a kg, though the species is protected as critically endangered.
IslamAt the 66th International Quran Recitation and Memorisation Competition in Kuala Lumpur, Ehtishamul Haque Hira of Markazu Faizil Quran Al Islami in Dhaka scored 97 to share first place in the men's memorisation category.
A rumour that a mermaid had been seen in a 200-year-old pond at Monohardi in Narsingdi has drawn thousands of visitors a day for five days, disturbing the fish being farmed in it.
