CookingAs ripe mangoes reached Bangladesh's markets in May 2025, Jagonews24 shared a ten-minute lassi of yoghurt, ripe mango, honey or syrup, ice and rose water. Here is the recipe, with the season's harvest calendars and what the ingredients contain.
Satkhira's Himsagar mangoes reached the market on 15 May after the district brought the harvest schedule forward at farmers' demand.
Satkhira's deputy commissioner opened the district's mango harvest on 5 May under a calendar set by the administration.
A truck carrying 400 crates of Gobindabhog mangoes ripened with chemicals was seized in Satkhira before the set marketing date, and the mangoes were destroyed.
Satkhira's district administration has fixed dates for picking and marketing mangoes, starting with early varieties on 5 May.
Satkhira mango growers and traders say the district's harvest calendar ignores local differences in ripening and costs them money, while officials defend it.
The Forest Department rescued a deer caught in a poachers' trap in the Sundarbans and released it back into the forest.
EnvironmentUnder the slogan "Turtles are friends of the environment; let them live in nature", the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Forest Department launched a turtle conservation campaign in Satkhira on 2 February 2025, due to run in Gopalganj, Madaripur and Khulna until 13 February.
Women farmers displayed and swapped seeds of more than 100 local vegetable and food crop varieties at a seed fair in Shyamnagar, Satkhira.
Forty-five kalkeute snake hatchlings were rescued from a house in Shyamnagar, Satkhira, on 22 September.
A 28-year-old woman died after being bitten by a venomous snake while cleaning her family's cowshed in Tala, Satkhira.
Villagers in Chanduria, Kalaroa upazila of Satkhira, killed, burnt and buried a Russell's viper, the second found in the village in two days.
Md Asif Talukder, a 30-year-old mango trader, died after members of an 'ojnan party' gang drugged him on a bus from Satkhira to Dhaka.
