Beat the Heat with a Mango Smoothie
With ripe mangoes plentiful in the market, a mango smoothie needs only five ingredients and a minute to make.
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With ripe mangoes plentiful in the market, a mango smoothie needs only five ingredients and a minute to make.
A barking deer that strayed from a border forest into a village in Kalmakanda, Netrokona, has been rescued and released into a deep forest in Durgapur.
An entrepreneur in Chandpur who grows 51 foreign mango varieties on an old brick kiln site expects to sell Tk 16-17 lakh worth of fruit this year.
Jackfruit has filled the markets of the hill district of Khagrachhari early in the season and is playing a big role in the hill economy.
A buffalo bought for sacrifice killed vegetable trader Md Mohsin, 37, and injured four others in Rangunia, Chattogram, after it broke its rope and ran away.
Veterinary medical teams will provide first aid and advice at sacrificial animal markets across Bangladesh, Fisheries and Livestock Minister Md Abdur Rahman said.
Thousands of cattle have arrived at the Shonir Akhra market in Jatrabari, Dhaka, but buyers are mostly checking prices, and traders expect real trading from Friday.
Sacrificial animals have filled Dhaka's markets but sales remain slow, and traders and market committees expect business to pick up from tonight as the government holiday begins.
Fisheries and Livestock Minister Md Abdur Rahman said about 1.30 crore animals are ready against demand of 1.07 crore, and those raising prices through trickery are bound to lose.
Inspector General of Police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun told buyers to call 999 if they are harassed while buying sacrificial animals, and warned against extortion and excess levies.
Hundreds of traders who brought cattle to Chattogram's Bibirhat market face losses as buyers stay away, amid allegations that a ward councillor controls the market and has blocked its lease.
Syed Mazarul Islam Rubel describes how two cardamom seedlings from a friend grew into more than a hundred fruiting plants in his garden in Agailjhara, Barishal.
Ashraful Alam Rujen of Bhairab has raised a 900kg Friesian bull named Raja Babu on home-grown feed and will sell it for Tk 6 lakh ahead of Eid-ul-Azha.