Bangladesh Bank has cut the interest rate on its Tk 3,000 crore refinance fund for an agro-based special economic hub in North Bengal, capping customer rates at 7 per cent.
The Bangladesh Food Safety Authority fined 16 establishments a total of Tk 20.5 lakh and filed 16 cases in drives across the country from 23 to 29 August.
Bangladesh's traditional cane craft is in decline despite strong demand abroad, but with government support it could earn foreign exchange and give work to the unemployed.
Land Minister Mizanur Rahman Minu joined a palm-planting drive against lightning at Rajshahi Medical College and urged people to care for saplings until they grow.
The SAARC Agriculture Centre in Dhaka met heads and senior representatives of national and international organisations to identify possible joint programmes and areas of cooperation for 2027.
A campaign to plant one lakh palmyra saplings across Bangladesh to curb lightning deaths and protect the climate and biodiversity was launched in Rajshahi with 1,000 saplings.
A venomous monocled cobra about five feet long was rescued with 25 intact eggs from a house in Boalkhali, Chattogram, and released in the jungle.
Atifa Nasrin Rakhi of Dimla in Nilphamari started with Tk 1,000 worth of cactus in 2020 and now runs a commercial nursery earning her up to a lakh taka a month.
Betel nut saplings planted beside a village road in Burichang, Cumilla, under the Prime Minister's tree-planting programme were allegedly killed with pesticide, and a complaint has been filed with police.
Deputy Speaker Barrister Kaiser Kamal replanted saplings at Bamoni on the Kalmakanda-Thakurakona road in Netrokona where miscreants had uprooted earlier plantings.
The Rajshahi divisional committee of the ICT Employee Society of Bangladesh planted palm saplings at the RUET gate to reduce the growing risk of lightning and protect climate and biodiversity.
The ice-and-rock avalanche that set off a deadly flash flood in Nepal's Rasuwa district on 26 August holds lessons for downstream Bangladesh on early warning and cross-border river data.
A 26-year-old housewife in Daulatpur, Kushtia, died of a venomous snakebite after her family took her to an exorcist for hours instead of to hospital.
