Two farmers in Kumarkhali, Kushtia, grew poison-free bitter gourd under Good Agricultural Practices, but with no separate market they get the same low price as ordinary produce.
Continuous rain and upstream water have pushed the Padma above danger level at Hardinge Bridge, stranding about 50,000 people in Daulatpur, Kushtia, and submerging roads and farmland.
A 26-year-old housewife in Daulatpur, Kushtia, died of a venomous snakebite after her family took her to an exorcist for hours instead of to hospital.
The Forest Department in Kushtia is accused of selling part of about 35,000 saplings given free by a tobacco company, and cannot account for where many of them went.
Imran Hossain, the snake charmer bitten by a cobra in Bheramara, Kushtia, has left hospital before completing treatment, saying he was ashamed.
A snake charmer, Imran Hossain, 38, was bitten while catching a cobra at a home in Bheramara, Kushtia, and is being treated at Kushtia General Hospital.
LivestockA Tangail farmer who had raised the black-and-white bull Manik for about ten years said in May 2026 that she had sold it for Tk 11.2 lakh to the Alauddin Ahmed Foundation in Kumarkhali, Kushtia, which planned to cook its meat for orphans and the poor on the third day of Eid-ul-Azha.
The Mirpur UNO in Kushtia is accused of taking a government car to a cattle market to buy a cow; he says he was only looking around.
Forest officials rescued an endangered gharial and three turtles kept in a tank at the YouTube Village park in Khoksa, Kushtia.
Snakebites killed eight people in Kushtia in the first ten months of the year, while Kushtia General Hospital and several upazila health complexes ran out of antivenom.
Upazila fisheries officials in Kumarkhali, Kushtia, seized and burnt about 5,000 metres of banned current net on the Padma to protect mother hilsa.
A Miyazaki mango tree brought from Japan has disappeared from a heavily guarded house in Kushtia's Kumarkhali, and a complaint has been filed.
The traditional rural jhapan game, held for the first time in a dozen years at Jhaudia in Kushtia Sadar, drew thousands of spectators to watch snake charmers perform with venomous snakes.
