Prime Minister Tarique Rahman urged people to look after newly planted saplings every day, as they would a newborn child, and said widespread tree planting was essential to cope with climate change.
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman launched a tree-planting programme in Gournadi, Barishal, by planting neem and hog plum saplings on the bank of a newly excavated canal.
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has left for his first visit to Barishal, where tree-planting programmes top his schedule.
With heavy to very heavy rain forecast across most of Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute has issued advice for Aman seedbeds and transplanting.
A python kept trapped in a net for three days by a young man hoping to sell it has been rescued in Boalkhali upazila of Chattogram.
Sharmin Akter, a former Rajshahi University student, earns about Tk 12 lakh a year from saplings and pots grown in her rooftop garden and won first place for rooftop gardens in the 2025 national tree-planting awards.
Snakebites have injured 75 people in flood-hit areas of Chattogram, while another 20 to 25 have fallen ill with diarrhoea and other waterborne diseases.
Floodwater is slowly receding in Bandarban, but thousands of families remain marooned and farmers, roads and bridges have suffered heavy losses.
EnvironmentAs rain eased on 11 July 2026, the Raikhyong river in Rangamati's Bilaichhari began to fall and water drained from Baghaichhari, though 1,445 people were still in shelters there.
Rosti, Switzerland's crisp-edged potato pancake, can be made at home quickly with a handful of ingredients.
Navy chief Admiral M Nazmul Hassan has launched the Bangladesh Navy's Tree Plantation Campaign-2026 as part of the government's 25 crore tree drive.
A Royal Bengal tigress badly injured in a poachers' snare has been released back into the Sundarbans after about six months of treatment in Khulna.
Floodwater is receding in Kurigram, but severe river erosion is eating into homesteads and around 500 hectares of crops have been damaged.
