The upazila administration in Gosairhat, Shariatpur, has closed a tree fair held in the forest department's name, citing irregularities, while the forest department says the fair was never theirs.
Only one of 39 stalls at a so-called tree fair in Gosairhat sells saplings, and the forest department and upazila administration disagree over who organised it.
A 40-year-old man was bitten while trying to kick a Russell's viper to death in Naria, Shariatpur, but doctors found no venom in his blood.
Claims on Facebook that a Russell's viper was found in Feni's Chhagalnaiya upazila were a rumour based on an incident in another district.
A 29-year-old in Shariatpur's Damudya saved a non-venomous 'kal nagini' snake that others were about to drown, and released it in an open field.
Bilkis and Faruk, a couple in Shariatpur, have raised a bull of about 20 maunds named 'Bagha' for Qurbani and are asking Tk 10 lakh for him.
A 62-year-old woman died of a venomous snakebite in Jajira, Shariatpur, after her family first took her to a local faith healer rather than to hospital.
Farmers in Shariatpur's Bhedarganj killed a five-foot Russell's viper they found while harvesting rice.
Passion fruit vines planted to decorate a restaurant in Shariatpur's Zajira are now bearing fruit that staff used to throw away as wild berries.
A relentless heatwave has pushed many boro farmers in Shariatpur to cut their ripe paddy at night, when it is cooler and labourers are willing to work.
After a venomous snake slipped into the compound of Sakhipur police station, the officer in charge called in a snake charmer to catch it.
A trained German Shepherd herds and guards the sheep and goats on businessman Suman Khan's farm in Naria, Shariatpur.
Miscreants stripped at least 400 maunds of boroi from a farmer's three-and-a-half-acre orchard in Gosairhat, Shariatpur, causing a loss he puts at Tk 10 lakh.
