A large crocodile seen in the Madhumati river on the Faridpur-Magura border has alarmed riverside villages, and local administrations have begun loudspeaker warnings.
A government intelligence agency report says fertiliser transport contractors and dealers are hoarding stocks to create an artificial shortage and overcharge farmers, even though warehouses hold enough for three months.
The Forest Department rescued a 10-foot Burmese python weighing 25 kg from a mango tree at a house in Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar, and released it into the forest.
A wheelchair-bound nuclear physicist with Lyme disease was attacked by a swarm of bees in California, and her recovery began from there.
Fifteen people, including vets, were injured when a wild elephant wounded by a landmine on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border attacked the team trying to treat it.
Upstream water swelling the Padma has flooded vegetable and banana fields on about 1,500 bighas in three Pabna upazilas, and vegetable prices have nearly doubled.
The Dhaka North City Corporation will give full support to any person or organisation that takes up greening anywhere in Dhaka, its administrator Mohammad Ejaz said.
The Coast Guard held eight people with deer meat and crabs at Harbaria in the Sundarbans during the forest's seasonal harvest ban.
A two-day drive ordered by the High Court razed six illegal brick kilns at Faitong in Lama upazila, and saplings were planted where they stood.
A snakebite victim in Natore caught the snake that bit him and brought it alive to hospital, where he is being treated with antivenom.
More than 500 lovebirds of nine species and 41 mutations competed at the first international-standard National Lovebird Championship in Dhaka.
Chattogram's mayor pledged 10 lakh trees as he opened a seven-day tree fair with 61 stalls at the city's Laldighi ground.
Under the slogan "Sabuje Sajai Bangladesh", a Satkhira nature club gave every student at a girls' school two free saplings.
