A 20-year-old college student died after a snakebite in Sherpur, and his family blames doctors at the district hospital for not giving antivenom in time, which the hospital denies.
With lightning deaths rising, the writer argues that lightning arrester towers in haor fields would protect farmers far sooner than planting palm trees.
Dhaka North City Corporation administrator Shafiqul Islam Khan, launching a tree planting programme in Uttara, said the city will be made clean and green with everyone's cooperation.
The AI-based platform Dr. Chashi, used with about 100,000 farmers since 2020, lets farmers photograph a diseased crop, get a likely diagnosis and act before reaching for pesticide.
Border Guard Bangladesh says a joint operation in Chirirbandar, Dinajpur, seized about 5.7kg of snake venom and arrested four people, with the total seizure valued at Tk 38.57 crore.
The Forest Department's Wildlife Crime Control Unit has rescued two endangered slow lorises being smuggled in Haluaghat, Mymensingh, though the traffickers escaped.
A local youth volunteer group planted more than 200 betel nut saplings along a road in Kumrabaria village, Jhenaidah, to raise awareness of climate change and protect the natural balance.
The 21 BGB Battalion of Khulna distributed dry food to 70 families affected by heavy rain, flooding, river erosion and waterlogging in the Daulatpur border area of Benapole.
The palmyra palm, which lives for more than a century, helps protect against lightning, shelters birds, supplies food, crafts and building material, and is easy to plant on high ground.
Technology, services and value addition could make agriculture a dignified, profitable business sector for young Bangladeshis rather than a last resort.
Stanford spin-out Mafix has raised $5.4 million in pre-seed funding to heat silicate rock with limestone in cement kilns, producing a mineral that weathers in a single season on farmland, removes carbon dioxide and supplies plant-available silicon and alkalinity.
The Forest Department has returned two elephants rescued two years ago from use in extorting money on roads to their owners, on conditions that they are not abused or used to collect money.
A senior columnist argues that the plastic Bangladeshis discard in rivers, drains and rubbish heaps can return to their plates as microplastics in fish and milk, making plastic a food-safety issue.
