Flowers
St Christopher lily, the fragrant white crinum blooming by a Mymensingh roadside
Crinum jagus, a bulbous plant from tropical Africa, flowers on Mymensingh's Bisweshwari Debi Road; each stalk carries four to twelve scented white blooms.
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AgribusinessIndia sets anti-dumping duty of up to $445 a tonne on Bangladeshi jute yarn
An Indian finance ministry gazette has reset anti-dumping duties on Bangladeshi jute goods: $445 a tonne on yarn from unlisted firms, $88 on hessian and $283 on sacking bags.
CropsSouth Africa faces bigger wheat imports as its harvest falls to an eight-year low
Wandile Sihlobo of Agbiz expects wheat imports of about 2.0 million tonnes as the 2026-27 crop is estimated at 1.8 million tonnes, while world prices have risen on logistics disruptions rather than short supply.
Health
Lifestyle changes can lower cancer risk: a Dhaka doctor's advice
Cancer cannot be prevented entirely, writes Dr Kakoli Halder of Dhaka Medical College's microbiology department, but avoiding tobacco, eating a balanced diet, staying active, getting HPV and hepatitis B vaccines and handling food safely all cut the risk.
HealthHow harmful is nail biting? What the research shows
Far more bacteria live under the nails than on the rest of the hand; studies found harmful Enterobacteriaceae more often in the mouths of nail-biters, and the habit damages nails, teeth and gums, Bigganchinta reports.
HealthWorld Rabies Day: Dhaka hospital treats 400-500 bite patients a day
World Rabies Day is marked today under the theme 'Rabies elimination: what we must do together'; the Infectious Diseases Hospital at Mohakhali sees 400 to 500 bite and scratch patients a day.
IslamThe qualities Islam asks of those who enforce law and order
Faith and God-consciousness, keeping oaths and trusts, good character, capability and fairness are the qualities Islam stresses for those charged with protecting life, property and honour, a piece on Daily Bangladesh's religion page says.
Environment
Dumuria villagers protest as two encroached canals drop off dredging list
Two canals in Gutudia union of Dumuria, Khulna, have been filled in for roads and buildings; villagers who fear waterlogged farmland protested after the pair were dropped from the excavation list.
Environment
Netrokona's Tk 11 crore waste plant shut a day after opening, now a dump itself
Built for about Tk 11 crore with World Bank money, Netrokona municipality's waste treatment plant has stood idle since the day after it opened; the town's 42 tonnes of daily waste go to open dumps and rubbish piles up inside the plant.
OrganicSadullapur wastes most of its cow dung and buys more chemical fertiliser
Sadullapur in Gaibandha produces about 447,540 tonnes of dung a year but turns only 70,000 tonnes into processed organic manure; the gap costs 1,200 tonnes of extra chemical fertiliser worth about Tk 2.79 crore a year.
HealthA century after penicillin, overuse threatens to make antibiotics useless
Alexander Fleming's 1928 discovery of penicillin transformed medicine; today careless use in people, livestock and fish farming is making antibiotics fail, and the problem runs deeper in Bangladesh.
HealthRabies vaccine shortage in districts sends bite victims to Dhaka
Shortages of rabies vaccine and immunoglobulin at government hospitals in many districts are sending bite victims to Dhaka; the Infectious Diseases Hospital in Mohakhali sees about 1,200 outpatients a day, though the health directorate says there is no shortage.
LivestockNFU rejects Wildlife Trusts claim that mega-dairies push nature to breaking point
A Wildlife Trusts report links 71 percent of serious farm pollution incidents in England to dairy and calls for permits for very large housed units; the NFU, AHDB and Dairy UK say management, not size, decides environmental performance.
CookingTwo hog plum dishes for the season: hilsa with amra and a sweet-sour amra
Hog plums (amra) are in the markets; cook Anisa Akter Nupur gives recipes for hilsa cooked with amra and a sweet-sour amra tempered with mustard seed and dried chilli.
HealthWarmer, wetter weather is raising mycotoxin risk in crops, toxicologist warns
A Malaysian toxicologist told Fi Asia 2026 in Jakarta that rising heat, carbon dioxide and erratic weather favour the moulds that make mycotoxins, and that prevention through dry, cool storage is still the main defence.
AgrotechConsumers accept gene-edited crops but not yet animals, World Agri-Tech panel hears
University of Saskatchewan economist Stuart Smyth told a London conference that gene editing in plants is widely accepted, while gene-edited pork and other animal products remain untested with shoppers.
Fisheries
PSTU opens fluorescence labs to test seafood quality and microplastics in minutes
Patuakhali Science and Technology University has opened two labs using fluorescence fingerprinting and chemometrics to check the freshness, adulteration and microplastic content of fish and seafood in seconds to minutes.
CropsWeekend deluge in Western Australia lodges oats but lifts crops weeks before harvest
Almost 100mm fell in parts of WA's south after one of the driest Julys on record; a Bremer Bay farmer's oats were flattened while farmers further north who missed the rain hope for more.
Daily lifeFour chemical-free ways to keep cockroaches out of the kitchen
Bay leaves, a lemon and baking soda spray, an onion, garlic and pepper solution and peppermint oil are Ajker Patrika's suggestions for tackling kitchen cockroaches without harmful chemicals.
IslamBalancing work and family: what the Prophet's day teaches about time
When office pressure leaves no time for family or oneself, the answer lies not in the hours available but in how they are used, Muhammad Muhsin Mashkur writes from the Quran and hadith.