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Daily lifeThe energy regulator BERC raised the October price of a 12 kg LPG cylinder from Tk 1,585 to Tk 1,837 amid shortages, and has asked 12 importers for their September figures over claims of an artificial crisis.
EnvironmentAn exhibition organised by Dhoritri Rokkhay Amra (DHORA), showing 170 photographs by Abir Abdullah and Ansar Uddin Khan Pathan, runs until 6 October.
HealthAn assessment at the Bangladesh Oxygen Summit found 31 of 70 plants installed through the CMSD out of order and 30 more not run round the clock, while about 7.5 million people a year need emergency oxygen.
EnvironmentProtected hills and tea-garden hillocks in Madhabpur and Chunarughat collapse into silted streams with each flash flood; residents want the streams dredged and trees planted, and the district administration is studying technical fixes.
CropsFarmers on 16,000 hectares of aman in Koyra, Khulna, cannot get enough urea; the upazila agriculture officer says the allocation is below need and has asked for an extra sub-allocation.
CropsUnder the agriculture ministry's PARTNER project, the Hortex Foundation has begun marketing produce certified under Bangladesh Good Agricultural Practices, on sale every Friday from 7am at the Manik Mia Avenue farmers market.
CookingWith LPG prices rising, simple kitchen habits such as covering pots, matching the flame to the pan, cleaning burners and checking for leaks can make a cylinder that lasted 20 days last 25.
HealthBogura's Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital has had its beds raised twice without new staff or buildings; it held 2,534 patients on 19 September, and each outpatient doctor sees about 170 people a day.
WorldUN Women says disrupted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is raising fuel, fertiliser and transport costs and food prices; another 22 million people may face food insecurity by year's end, 53 per cent of them women and girls.
Daily lifeThe government set the price of a 12kg LPG cylinder at Tk 1,585, yet buyers in at least 13 districts are paying Tk 300 to Tk 800 more or finding none at all, while operators and dealers blame each other.
EnvironmentMonths of rain have overflowed the beels of Abhaynagar, Manirampur and Keshabpur in Jessore and low parts of Dumuria and Phultala in Khulna; a campaign committee wants tidal river management started before Maghi Purnima and the Amdanga canal dug.
CropsA sudden upstream surge on 10-13 September flooded eight chars of Bilmaria union in Lalpur, Natore, hitting 1,300 farmers; as the water recedes, the agriculture office has sent its damage estimate to the government.
FisheriesA WorldFish workshop in Dhaka looked at how integrated Artemia, fish and vegetable farming on Cox's Bazar salt pans and three decades of GIFT tilapia could be applied in Kenya and Ghana.
