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VegetablesBean growing in Jarmandi village, Sundarganj, began about 16 years ago with Puti seed brought from Natore and now covers about 35 bighas farmed by at least 20 families; beans fetch Tk 50 a kg wholesale, but rising input costs are cutting profits.
OpinionPoet and essayist Md Belayet Hossain writes in Samakal that polythene and plastic left by visitors at remote Masangtoichha in Matiranga is washing down streams into rivers whose water is the main supply for hill communities. The views are the writer's own.
Daily lifeBangladesh's cabinet approved 29 public holidays for 2027, seven of which fall on weekends, leaving 22 effective days off; it also approved draft laws on special solar power installation and public procurement.
FisheriesPesticide poured into Larkibari beel in Singra, Natore, where villagers have farmed fish together for 40 years, killed about Tk 4 lakh worth of fish overnight; the farmers blame a dispute over control of the wetland.
CookingHyderabad cancer surgeon Dr. Arjun Sankaran says what matters is iodine, not colour; rock, black and Celtic salts carry only trace minerals, and total salt from all foods should stay under a teaspoon a day.
EnvironmentFinland's licensing authority ordered preliminary work at Muhos and Otanmäki stopped because the environmental impact assessment was incomplete; brown water is running into a river and wolves are entering villages.
CropsWith 113.6 mm of rain in three days, aman on at least 150 hectares has lodged in Lalpur, and Ishwardi’s agriculture office expects yields about 5 maunds a bigha lower; farmers are advised to tie up the fallen plants.
CropsAs boro land preparation begins in Kishoreganj’s haor, river police seized a boat with 108 bags of BADC DAP fertiliser in Itna; farmers say dealer supplies are not reaching them, forcing them to buy smuggled fertiliser at higher prices.
Long neglected, the Bangladesh Institute of Health Management will be repaired by 31 December and then train doctors in administration, the state minister for health said.
HealthResearchers at the University of Chittagong analysed 222 people and found variants in three genes associated with hypertension; the study is published in Elsevier's journal Gene Reports.
VegetablesWith no wholesale market in Khetlal, Joypurhat, farmers sell vegetables to traders in the field at low prices; a local agriculture officer puts the kharif-2 loss at 41.5 million to 55.3 million taka.
At a Centre for Cancer Care Foundation seminar at Dhaka University, specialists said cancer treatment cannot stop at the body: families, hospitals and organisations need a shared structure of psychosocial support.
EnvironmentWildlife specialist Dr A N M Aminur Rahman photographed the rare and endangered crimson rose (Pachliopta hector) on a yellow wildflower beside the Katka tower in the Sundarbans, and saw it again at Kuakata's Lembur Bon.
