The Department of Agricultural Extension has stand-released Satkhira Sadar upazila agriculture officer Abu Sayeed Shuvro over alleged irregularities in sapling distribution.
Warm milk with honey can be a nutritious bedtime drink that may help sleep and digestion, though it is no cure and needs some precautions.
One of the country's largest wholesale jackfruit markets has grown up around Simakhali in Magura, supplying 30-35 districts, and a bumper crop has pleased farmers and traders.
Farmers in five flood-hit districts of the Chattogram region will get rice seed and seedlings, and all livestock there will be vaccinated against FMD within 15 days.
Most snakes in Bangladesh are harmless and shy, myths fuel needless killing, and killing one is punishable by up to seven years in jail and a Tk 10 lakh fine.
Instalments and interest on NGO loans taken by small women entrepreneurs hit by the Bandarban floods have been waived for one month, State Minister Mir Helal Uddin said.
Floods from heavy rain have caused an official Tk 13 crore of farm, fisheries and livestock losses in Sitakunda, Chattogram, though those affected say the real figure is Tk 30-35 crore.
Though the Sundarbans tiger count has risen to 125, climate change, salinity and habitat loss threaten the Royal Bengal tiger unless conservation is stepped up.
Continuous rain has drowned 417 hectares of crops in Bogura, hurting 4,961 farmers, while falling supply has sent vegetable prices soaring for consumers.
Floods in five districts of the Chattogram region caused fisheries and livestock losses of about Tk 275 crore, the minister said, announcing seed, vaccination and fodder support.
A year after the Milestone tragedy, students planted memorial trees for lost classmates and took part in art therapy, counselling and football at a resort in Pubail, Gazipur.
Speaking at the Dhaka Reporters Unity's native seasonal fruit festival, the Prime Minister's adviser Mahdi Amin said journalists had led every democratic movement.
A physically disabled farmer in Shailkupa, Jhenaidah, faces losses of several lakh taka after miscreants cut down his fruiting bottle gourd plants at night.
