Environment
Turkey and AIIB sign a $1.6 billion climate finance deal at COP31
The bank's largest climate loan package will help Turkey launch emissions trading, cut carbon sector by sector and strengthen adaptation.
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Daily lifeBangladesh Bank doubles forex limit for treatment abroad to $30,000
Under a new circular, authorised dealer banks can release up to $30,000 per person for medical treatment abroad without the central bank's prior approval, up from $15,000.
World
Ninety million displaced people face climate hazards, UNHCR warns before COP31
Nearly three-quarters of forcibly displaced people live in highly exposed countries such as Afghanistan and Bangladesh, the UN refugee agency says.
HealthBangladesh targets 1 crore eyeglasses and 10 lakh cataract operations by 2030
Health state minister Dr M A Muhit told a global eye health summit that a 2026-30 national plan aims to bring about 2 crore people into referral eye care.
Rooftop farmingMealybugs and root rot on rooftop plants: seven home remedies
Sarabangla suggests neem oil, garlic and soap-water sprays for mealybugs, and turmeric, cinnamon, baking soda and diluted hydrogen peroxide against rot, without chemical pesticides, reminding gardeners that controlling pests and curing rot call for different remedies.
Daily lifeLPG price rises Tk 223 for November, 12 kg cylinder now Tk 2,060
Higher Saudi Aramco propane and butane prices and bigger commissions along the supply chain have pushed BERC's price for a private 12 kg LPG cylinder up by Tk 223 to Tk 2,060, effective 8pm on Monday.
OpinionDengue deaths pass 427 while pharmacies run out of normal saline: Mir Abdul Alim
Writing in Sarabangla, journalist and columnist Mir Abdul Alim says a retail price frozen since 2015 and rising costs have cut saline output, and calls for a quick pricing and supply policy. The views are the writer's own.
FisheriesEight-month ban on catching jatka begins; 79,000 Patuakhali fishers to get rice
From 1 November to 30 June 2027, catching, selling, transporting or storing hilsa under 10 inches is an offence; Patuakhali's 79,000 registered fishers will receive 40 kg of rice a month for four months.
Environment100 grams of plastic buys a free zoo visit in Chattogram, and now it will be recycled
Chattogram district administration has signed a one-year agreement with YPSA Waste Management Enterprise to collect and recycle the plastic students hand in at Chattogram Zoo.
CropsGaibandha's young people are turning away from farming, and their parents agree
In Gaibandha, a district of fertile silt and wide chars, uncertain incomes, rising costs, poor prices and low social standing are pushing young people out of farming, and agronomists see a risk to food security.
VegetablesGinger up Tk 60 and garlic Tk 40 a kilo in a week in Rangpur
Old ginger and garlic stocks are running low and the new crop has not fully arrived, pushing up retail prices in Rangpur; tomatoes, okra and cabbage eased, while fish, meat and eggs held steady.
CropsGovernment promises full support for research on Phuti karpas, the cotton behind Dhaka muslin
At a Bangladesh Handloom Board seminar, State Minister for Textiles and Jute Md Shariful Alam said the government will give maximum financial support to research on the varieties, genetics and fibre quality of Phuti karpas cotton, and wants the revived muslin technology handed quickly to private mak
HealthBangladesh Medical University opens a multidisciplinary liver cancer clinic
A liver cancer clinic run by BMU's hepatology department on trial since August was formally opened; more than six departments will give coordinated care.