Environment
Why Do Snakes Become a Menace?
A guide to why snakes enter homes during the monsoon floods, what to do on seeing one, first aid for bites and the myths around snakes.
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Environment
Pran-RFL School Plants Trees in Memory of Those Killed in Student Movement
Pran-RFL Public School in Habiganj held a tree-planting programme in memory of the martyrs of the anti-discrimination student movement.
Environment
Elephant Attacks Kill Two in One Night in Chattogram
Two people, including a woman, were killed in separate elephant attacks on the same night in Bairag union of Anwara, Chattogram.
Agribusiness
Elephant Kills Mahout While Collecting Money at Market
A mahout named Nazrul Islam was killed when the elephant he was using to collect money threw him down and trampled him in Kotalipara, Gopalganj.
Environment
Snake Menace Rises in Mirsarai, Over 400 Bitten in 9 Months
Snakebites have risen in Mirsarai, Chattogram, after the devastating flood, with about 400 people bitten this year and one schoolboy killed.
Agribusiness
Hilsa Is Being Exported to India, Not Sent as a Gift: Rizwana Hasan
Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan said hilsa is going to India as an export that will earn the government money, not as a gift, while visiting the broken Musapur regulator in Noakhali.
Environment
Young Man Dies of Snakebite in Kishoreganj
A 22-year-old man died after being bitten by a venomous snake in Katiadi upazila of Kishoreganj on the night of 22 September.
Environment
45 Kalkeute Hatchlings Rescued in Satkhira
Forty-five kalkeute snake hatchlings were rescued from a house in Shyamnagar, Satkhira, on 22 September.
Crops
Returnee Migrant Selim Finds Success With a Nursery
Selim Uddin of Mirsharai, who came home ill from the Gulf, started a fruit sapling nursery with Tk 3,000 of borrowed money and now earns more than he did abroad.
Environment
Two Women Die of Snakebite in Mirzapur
Two women died of snakebites in Mirzapur upazila of Tangail, one while pulling straw for cattle and the other on Friday evening.
Vegetables
SAU to Give Vegetable Seedlings and Fertiliser to Flood-Hit Farmers in Cumilla and Feni
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University's horticulture department will distribute 20,000 free vegetable seedlings to 500 marginal farmers hit by flash floods in Cumilla and Feni.
Environment
Rain Trees 'Killed' by a Novel Method
Vandals have stripped the bark from eight rain trees planted by the Roads and Highways Department on the Khagrachhari-Panchhari road, slowly killing them.
Crops
Jibonkrishna Succeeds in Growing Stevia, a Sugar Substitute
A government engineer in Kaliganj, Lalmonirhat, has turned 17 stevia seedlings into a 200-plant garden in eight months and plans to grow the sugar substitute commercially.