CookingOn 3 February 2026, the day of Shab-e-Barat, Jagonews24 published a carrot rasmalai recipe: balls of boiled carrot, ghee, semolina and milk powder, simmered in sweetened milk with chopped nuts.
CropsCumilla's Department of Agricultural Extension expected Tk 20 to 22 crore worth of vegetable seedlings to be sold in the 2025 season, with more than 700 farmers raising seedlings on about 20 hectares around the village of Samespur.
Saplings bought with students' tiffin money were distributed at Majhigachha Aktaruzzaman High School in Cumilla Sadar.
A jackal bit seven people, including a child, in Muradnagar upazila of Cumilla on Saturday night before local people killed it.
A 12-foot python found under a culvert in Burichang, Cumilla, was caught by a local youth who took it home in a sack, and forest officials say it will be released soon.
A farmer in Sadar Dakshin upazila has begun Cumilla's first cotton cultivation on a trial plot with support from the Cotton Development Board.
A teenage snakebite victim could not be given antivenom at the Nangalkot Upazila Health Complex in Cumilla because the necessary injections were not in stock, and he later died.
A 50-acre synchronised farming block in Debidwar, Cumilla, using rice transplanters, combine harvesters and BRRI dhan102 averaged 91 maunds an acre and saved Tk 19,815 an acre.
Potato farmers in Cumilla's Burichang are storing their bumper crop under tarpaulins in the open, with cold stores full and prices below production cost.
More than two and a half months into the current Aman season, the Cumilla district food department has not been able to procure a single grain of paddy for its 14 food godowns in 17 upazilas.
CropsOn 14 September 2024 Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party handed free Aman rice seedlings, raised on seedbeds in Brahmanbaria, to 400 farmers in Cumilla and Feni whose crops and seedbeds the August flood had destroyed.
BGB seized 620 kg of hilsa being smuggled into India from the Burichang border in Cumilla, and the fish was sold at auction.
The Forest Department rescued an elephant that had been beaten in Cumilla early on Thursday, on the orders of environment adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan.
