Parts of Dhaka's Hatirjheel lake have been filled with sand to sink pillars for the Elevated Expressway's Sonargaon link ramp; water flow is blocked, sewage pours in through drains and the water has turned black and foul.
FruitsIsland Agro Farm's growers expect to sell Tk 7-8 lakh of papaya after spending about Tk 2 lakh, with 50-60 kg a tree.
CropsTrying to grow a spice Bangladesh almost entirely imports, a Benapole farmer planted small green cardamom from Africa; the three-and-a-half-year-old plants under mahogany shade are setting pods.
FruitsThe Siam Green and Siam Blue coconuts brought in under the year-round fruit project yield well with proper care and water, but farmers who planted and left them have been disappointed.
FruitsSaplings from a three-and-a-half-bigha vineyard in Jibannagar sell for Tk 350-400; after losses on 'China orange', farmers warn against rushing in without knowing the variety.
CropsPaddy and rice prices have slipped in Moulvibazar and Sreemangal markets; shoppers welcome cheaper rice, but farmers say rising costs of seed, fertiliser, irrigation and labour leave them unable to cover production costs.
A mobile court in Lalpur, Natore, fined BADC fertiliser dealer Saiful Traders Tk 50,000 under the consumer rights law after its stock did not match its stock register.
Under a Bangladesh-Maldives Green Initiative, Mianz College School of Agriculture will test how guava, neem, flame tree and other Bangladeshi species adapt to Maldivian soil and climate.
HealthDhaka's additional divisional commissioner Md Azmul Haque said dengue mosquitoes now bite day and night and breed in dirty water too; the district council will run clean-ups across the district for three months.
LivestockMeeting the poultry sector at the Secretariat, commerce minister Khandaker Abdul Muktadir warned against excess profit and artificial shortages; traders said feed costs have pushed the cost of an egg to about Tk 11 and prices should ease within two weeks.
CropsUSDA's Grain and Feed Update shows Bangladesh imported over 1.74 million tonnes of maize in marketing year 2026, about 111,000 tonnes of it from the United States; Brazil supplied 68 percent and India 24 percent.
On World Rivers Day, photographs of three rivers in Dhaka and Chattogram show factory effluent, vessel oil, floating plastic and two-coloured water.
IslamSpeakers at the Islamic Social Finance Meet-up 2026 at the DCC hall on Topkhana Road said zakat, waqf, sadaqah and qard al-hasan could be used institutionally for poverty relief and social development.
