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Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics data show GDP growth in the fourth and final quarter (April-June) of 2025-26 rose to 4.60 percent, up from 2.05 percent in the same quarter a year earlier.
GalleryProthom Alo photographer Anis Mahmud's pictures show the Piyain shrunk to a narrow channel after the rains, kash flowers among the stones, tourists in boats and a waterfall run dry.
GalleryProthom Alo photographer Supriyo Chakma's pictures from Mounaghar, Shimujjechhara and Bhuter Tila show an old farmer checking rice ears, a woman weeding and fishers setting out on a misty lake.
GalleryBOC Ghat on the Meghna is one of the country's biggest paddy markets; in its mill yards men and women spread paddy from dawn and rush to heap and cover it when clouds appear.
EnvironmentBotany professor Chayan Bikash Bhadra of Muminunnessa Government College describes Litsea glutinosa, its flowers, fruit and folk uses, and warns that deforestation has made it far scarcer.
GalleryProthom Alo's photographers on 7 October: paddy drying in Khulna, early potato planting in Rangpur, harvesters and beekeepers in Rajshahi, and Chandpur fishermen putting nets away before the hilsa ban.
EnvironmentMeteorologists say average winter temperatures may run above normal and cold waves may be brief; with less rain, fog may thicken, and irrigation demand may rise in the boro season.
GalleryFrom dawn, beside the tracks at Mojompur rail gate, apples, oranges, malta, grapes, dragon fruit and pomegranates are auctioned; retailers buy wholesale and carry the fruit off by van.
FisheriesOne trawler's 2,400 hilsa sold for Tk 44 lakh at Fishery Ghat, about Tk 2,000 a kilo; traders blame scarce catches elsewhere, while fishermen worry about the 22 days without work.
HealthA World Cancer Research Fund analysis finds early-onset bowel, kidney, uterine and breast cancers rising in all three countries; it points to obesity, diet, inactivity, alcohol, smoking and pollutants.
CookingSabudana, once thought of only as food for the sick, makes a crisp evening snack when mixed with potato, vegetables, gram flour and spices; the recipe is by Asit Karmakar.
Fisher Niranjan Halder's net brought up a 17 kg and an 8 kg pangas at the Padma confluence near Mojlishpur, Goalanda; the Daulatdia trader who bought them is bargaining to sell the big one to a Dhaka buyer at Tk 2,300 a kilo.
EnvironmentThe Forest Department says 10 to 11-year-old keora, gewa and baen trees were pulled up in its 75-hectare South Char Biswas mangrove plantation and embankments dug across about 200 acres; it has filed a general diary.
