A viral video of a small child walking through paddy fields carrying a civet-like animal with a porcupine following was widely shared as Bangladeshi, but fact-checkers traced it to Sri Lanka.
Rain and upstream runoff have pushed the Dudhkumar river 23 cm above the danger mark at Pateshwari in Kurigram, and the Water Development Board warns of a short-term flood within 72 hours.
The Teesta was flowing 10 centimetres above its danger level at the Dalia Teesta Barrage point in Nilphamari at 9pm on 28 June.
A 25-year-old man in Lohagara, Chattogram, died after relatives took him to a local ojha rather than a hospital following a snakebite.
Foreign mango varieties are catching on in the Khagrachhari hills because they fetch several times the price of local mangoes, but orchard owners say tolls on the way to market are a major burden.
EnvironmentThe Kushiyara was flowing 4 cm above danger level at Fenchuganj on 28 June 2026, the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre said, warning of short-term flooding in riverside low-lying areas of Sylhet, Mymensingh and Rangpur divisions.
Instead of chasing a job, Zahidul Mahmud Sumon of Pirojpur took up integrated farming after watching YouTube, and now earns Tk 10 to 15 lakh a year from papaya, fruit and fish.
A 16-year-old boy has died of snakebite in Boalmari, Faridpur, after his family tried to cure him with a faith healer instead of taking him to hospital in time.
The Regional Agricultural Research Station at Akbarpur, Moulvibazar, has developed 11 fruit varieties since 1982 and is now adapting fruits, vegetables and oil crops to the region.
A venomous banded krait trapped for about a week in a house's boundary net was rescued in Sreemangal, Moulvibazar, on 27 June.
All government and MPO-listed secondary schools have received Tk 5,000 each to plant trees under the "One Child, One Tree" programme.
A court in eastern China has jailed a man for keeping more than 300 pythons in a flat, which police found by investigating unusual electricity use.
Banana farming is booming in the Rangpur region, but a lack of storage and processing means large quantities of fruit are lost every year.
