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World Tiger Day Today
As World Tiger Day is marked, Bangladesh's Sundarbans tiger numbers remain far from the 2010 doubling goal and the exact current count is unknown.
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Chuadanga Farmer Dies of Snakebite After Hours at Exorcist's House
A farmer bitten by a snake in his paddy field in Chuadanga died in hospital after his family first took him to an exorcist.
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Abid's Hall Balcony Garden Holds 70 Plant Species
A Rajshahi University master's student has turned the balcony outside his hall room into a garden of about 70 plant species.
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Snake Panic Capsizes Boat, Killing Three Wedding Guests in Tangail
Three people including the groom's elder brother drowned in Tangail's Mirzapur when panic over a snake in the water overturned their boat.
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Saplings in Exchange for Plastic Bottles at Chittagong University
A student organisation at Chittagong University handed out about 4,000 fruit saplings to people who brought in plastic bottles.
Environment
IFIC Bank Launches Nationwide Tree-Planting Programme
IFIC Bank has begun a month-long tree-planting drive across its 1,300 branches and sub-branches under the slogan "Let trees be life's companions".
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Shrabon 'Drought' Burns Northern Farmers' Fortunes
A rainless monsoon is forcing farmers across northern Bangladesh to irrigate aman paddy, pushing up costs and raising fears of lower yields.
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Elderly Man Killed by Wild Elephant in Cox's Bazar
A 70-year-old labourer was killed by a wild elephant while returning home from plantation work in Pekua, Cox's Bazar.
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Python Rescued From Abandoned House, Released in Lemburban
Volunteers in Kalapara, Patuakhali, rescued a 12-foot Burmese python from an abandoned house and released it in the Lemburban forest.
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Feasting on Fox Meat
Foxes are being hunted indiscriminately in Patuakhali and the south in the belief that their meat relieves joint pain, which doctors call superstition.
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Slow Loris Returned to the Forest in Kaptai
An endangered slow loris found near an Ansar camp in Rangamati has been released deep in Kaptai National Park.
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Housewife Dies of Snakebite in Chuadanga, Child Injured
A 45-year-old woman died of a snakebite in Chuadanga's Alamdanga and an eight-year-old boy was bitten in Jibannagar on the same day.
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DNCC Allocates Tk 20 Crore for Planting Trees
Dhaka North City Corporation has set aside Tk 20 crore for tree planting in its 2023-24 budget to green the city and ease temperatures.