Farmers in the fields despite the heat, seed potatoes out of cold storage for early planting, kingfishers and cormorants on the hunt: Bangladesh on 29 September in 19 photographs.
IslamAsk with conviction and in your own words, be patient, call on God in good times and bad, pray in the last third of the night and match prayer with deeds: the etiquette of dua from the Quran and Sahih Muslim.
Forest staff rescued a 9-foot, 9-kilogram Burmese python crossing the road at Hotapara truck stand in Gazipur Sadar late on Monday night and placed it in the python enclosure at Gazipur Safari Park.
HealthUniversity of Chicago researchers project 66,800 extra heat deaths in Nigeria, Sudan, Niger and Chad, where poverty and scarce electricity leave people unable to cool down.
CropsWeather service and SADC outlooks favour below-normal rain and above-normal temperatures from October, but past El Nino years show strength alone does not decide the season.
AgribusinessIn a column for Food for Mzansi, Standard Bank's Bill Blackie says early shipments from South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Nigeria are already saving duty under China's zero-tariff framework, in force since 1 May 2026.
EnvironmentWith Category 3 Hurricane Polo threatening landfall, power went out in parts of Mexico's Baja California peninsula and sea water broke through sand barriers at the fishing port of Puerto San Carlos.
Lalmonirhat Sadar's agriculture office sets light traps, a lamp over a pan of soapy or kerosene water, across nine unions and the municipality every week and advises spraying only after counting the pests caught.
AgribusinessAHDB put August's average at 108.47p, up 43% on a year; Middle East tensions, lower Russian refining and talk of US export curbs keep the market volatile.
HealthJanuary-August figures show an average of about 694 patients a month, 23 a day, died under treatment at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases in Dhaka, as heart attacks rise among people aged 25 to 45, Amar Desh reports.
EnvironmentYoung environmental activist Ratul Munshi, who grew up in Madhupur, Tangail, says he has planted about 25,000 trees; after a 400 km tree march and planting palms and rare boilam trees, he now campaigns to protect the sal forest.
LivestockAn MLA demonstration that followed more than 3,500 bulls around Esperance backed what the Fowler family had seen: vaccinated young bulls break down far less often in their first joining.
OpinionAgribusiness lawyer Trent Thorne argues that training placements help, but farming will not keep young people until it offers clear routes to ownership and leadership. The views are the writer's own.
With diesel up Tk 20 a litre and wages, fertiliser, seed and pesticide dearer, Rajbari farmers say production costs per bigha have nearly doubled in places, and they fear low prices at harvest.
Mohammad Sohel of Bhuapur, Tangail, is harvesting passion fruit, known locally as anarkali, from a trial planting in his courtyard and plans a commercial orchard.
CropsMaa Danteshwari Herbal Group gave free saplings to hundreds of students and about 25 farmers in Kondagaon district and promised more to those whose plants are thriving a year from now.
IslamIn Islam death is not the end of life but a step into the hereafter; the Quran and authentic hadith speak of its certainty, of barzakh, of resurrection and of deeds whose reward continues after death.
AgrotechThe Austrian maker's new SpotSprayING models, 2.5 to 3 metres and 4.5 metres wide, use a camera every 75 cm to tell crops from weeds; the 3-metre version starts at €80,000.
LivestockJBS now pre-vaccinates all Angus cattle entering its five yards, and MLA says bovine respiratory disease deaths are down 50% even as cattle on feed rose by half.
IslamIn fiqh, abusive or indecent words after ablution do not break wudu and do not require renewing it; but abuse is itself a serious sin, calling for repentance and restraint.
