More than a hundred students in Patiya, Chattogram, learned how to stay safe when wild elephants come into villages at a World Elephant Day event run by the forest department.
Police detained a woman in Khagrachhari with 24 monitor lizards she said she had bought in Chattogram to sell.
Constant conflict with people, habitat destruction and food shortages have pushed Rangamati's critically endangered Asian elephants towards local extinction.
An acting headteacher in Kaukhali upazila has been suspended for having pupils plant tree branches instead of saplings during a government tree-planting programme.
The government will import 110,000 tonnes of urea, DAP and TSP fertiliser from Saudi Arabia and Morocco for about Tk 902.74 crore.
The government will import 100,000 tonnes of non-basmati parboiled rice from Vietnam on a government-to-government basis at Tk 51.50 a kg.
Japan's halt on Indian mangoes, China's action on rice and tighter spice checks elsewhere have exposed weaknesses in India's testing and traceability systems.
The cabinet committee on government purchase has approved buying sugar, refined soybean oil and lentils worth Tk 519.38 crore.
Distribution of 30 tonnes of GR rice allocated for flood and river-erosion victims in Nageshwari, Kurigram, has finally begun, weeks after the floods receded.
CropsNASS has begun its County Agricultural Production Survey, the questionnaire behind the only official yearly crop estimates the United States publishes at county level.
CropsNASS has closed the Agricultural Yield Survey behind the August Crop Production report, and says it made greater use of acreage already filed with the Farm Service Agency to cut what it asks of growers.
Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Abdul Awal Mintoo said at a World Elephant Day event that securing elephants' future needs the whole of society, not the government alone.
Forest loss, encroachment and climate change have left the Garo Hills unable to feed and water wild elephants, driving them into villages where people and elephants are dying.
General Agro Chemical Limited is accused of marketing more than half a dozen pesticides for about a decade under forged registrations, which its managing director denies.
While Bangladesh's fish output and exports grow, fishers and scientists say hilsa production is falling and the average fish is getting smaller.
Reporters in Thakurgaon found hundreds of sacks of government fertiliser in open-market shops and alerted officials, who did not come even after a four-hour wait.
Avian influenza and goatpox vaccines developed by the Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute (BLRI) have been handed over for commercial production and delivery to farmers.
Dhaka South City Corporation held a special mosquito control, cleanliness and tree-planting programme in three Kamrangirchar wards.
LivestockA memorandum of understanding announced at Moore Air Base in Texas aligns USDA's animal health work with DHS border and inspection powers, targeting an estimated 800,000 cattle smuggled into Mexico each year.
Finance and Planning Minister Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury said people must care for the trees they plant if the country is to reach its target of 25 crore trees.
