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Machine transplanting of Boro rice began for the first time in Tarail, Kishoreganj, where the Department of Agricultural Extension says a transplanter can plant an acre a day on a litre of fuel.
The Met Office forecast a slight fall in daytime temperature and light rain or drizzle in parts of the country on 20 January.
The lottery used to pick farmers who could sell aman paddy to government food stores has benefited middlemen and non-farmers, and Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder admits the lists were flawed.
A businessman in Jhalakathi led a speedboat awareness campaign along about 20 kilometres of river to protect the migratory birds wintering on the Bishkhali's banks.
The glossy ibis, a winter visitor to Bangladesh's wetlands, is declining because of indiscriminate hunting and the destruction of aquatic plants.
The peregrine falcon, a winter migrant, is the world's fastest animal, diving at 300-350km an hour to seize its prey.
Himalayan vultures that fly thousands of kilometres to Bangladesh each winter are being attacked and killed by people when they fall exhausted to the ground.
A great bittern, the rarest bird seen in Bangladesh, has been rescued in Sreemangal about 10 years after the last sighting.
The oriental darter, once common across Bangladesh, has declined rapidly over three decades and is now endangered in the country.
Poachers are trapping and shooting migratory birds in wetlands across Satkhira in defiance of a government ban.
Flocks of migratory birds have again settled on the lakes of Jahangirnagar University, drawing visitors from Dhaka and elsewhere.
The government plans to acquire land around a mango orchard in Rajshahi's Bagha upazila to give a nesting colony of Asian openbills a permanent home.
Villagers and bird lovers want Alidewna, a village alive with thousands of birds, declared a sanctuary and a tourist spot.
