HealthSevere stress, anxiety or long-running emotional strain can raise body temperature, a condition called psychogenic fever that ordinary fever medicines do little for, Dr M R Karim Reza writes in Daily Bangladesh.
EnvironmentIMD data to 29 September show 758.5 mm against a normal 865 mm; the northeast and south were hardest hit, while Odisha and Uttar Pradesh had more rain than normal.
HealthPeople with diabetes need not cut out carbohydrates but should control portions and add protein and fibre; the US NIDDK's plate method shows how to fill a breakfast plate.
HealthAt a World Heart Day seminar of the National Heart Foundation, experts called for quick rules under the Tobacco Control Act 2026, budget for managing high blood pressure and diabetes in primary care, and cutting salt in food in line with WHO advice.
IslamWriter Farzia Hossain explains the context and lesson of the short prayer the Prophet Musa made in the shade of a tree after reaching Madyan from Egypt, preserved in verse 24 of Surah al-Qasas, in Channel i Online.
GalleryOn 30 September Prothom Alo's photographers found fishermen on Kaptai Lake in Rangamati, cauliflower fields and egrets in Shibganj, Bogura, lotus and a black-hooded oriole in Pabna and carambola blossom in Moulvibazar.
CropsKenya's agriculture ministry is revising two draft bills, a Seeds and Plant Varieties Bill 2026 and a Plant Genetic Resources Institute Bill 2026, with input from farmers, seed companies, breeders and seven CGIAR centres.
FruitsFarmers in Jhalokathi's four upazilas grew hog plum (amra) on 605 hectares this year for 4,590 tonnes; at the Bhimruli floating market it sells for Tk 1,000 to Tk 1,600 a maund, and growers say it pays better than guava, BSS reports.
EnvironmentKnown in Bangladesh as a planted tree, the pabon jhau (Casuarina equisetifolia) has seeded itself into a wild stand at Ichhakhali in Mirsharai, nature writer Mokarram Hossain reports.
EnvironmentOn a 32 km stretch of the Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Mirsarai, vegetables are now grown at 113 spots on the road median where hundreds of jarul, sonalu and oleander trees planted for shade and beauty were cut; the roads department says it will act.
Market ManagementThe Irish co-op took in more than 100,000 tonnes of grain and beans and says quality was excellent even though dry weather cut some yields.
AgribusinessSARS has opened a standalone diesel refund registration system separate from VAT; no existing registration carries over, and a farmer's claims will depend on each fuel supplier registering too.
CropsAt the Global Sorghum Conference in Lubbock, growers' leaders said new funding and gene editing could speed breeding for drought, heat and water scarcity.
CropsA Grain SA economist told an NAMC webinar that a large maize surplus could blunt any El Nino price rise, while input costs have outpaced crop prices.
EnvironmentForestry Commission chair Baroness Young told the APF Show that multi-purpose forestry is hard but the answer is more planting across timber, carbon and biodiversity.
EnvironmentThe Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is funding five studies on how PFAS gets into fields, which crops take it up and how farmers can test for it cheaply.
LivestockChad Baker buys freshly weaned or long-weaned calves, favours vaccinated animals, mixes breeds and avoids big frames when feed costs matter.
GalleryVillages across Shibganj and Mokamtala in Bogura are full of banana orchards; photographer Soel Rana follows the ripe bunches from the trees to vans, wholesale depots and trucks bound for markets around the country, in a Prothom Alo photo story.
Professor Sohel Reza Choudhury of the National Heart Foundation explains the differences between ischaemia, heart failure, arrhythmia, valve disease and congenital heart disease.
CropsAn ICAR workshop at Punjab Agricultural University proposed CRM CONNECT to coordinate extension, machinery and industry as the state moves from cutting straw burning to using the 20 million tonnes of straw it produces.
