AgribusinessEighteen Bede women at Seven Number Ghat in Khulna gave up a wandering livelihood and earned from cloth, bags, groceries, vegetables and goats after 10 days of training from the NGO Rupantar in 2022, Jagonews24 reported.
The Chinese lunar new year began on 29 January 2025, opening the Year of the Snake and China's biggest festival, rooted in a calendar long used to guide farming.
About 10,000 people gathered in Dinajpur Sadar upazila to watch pata khela, a traditional game in which tantriks compete using snakes.
EnvironmentA python estimated at about 10 feet was found coiled around a kitchen rack in a house in Kumira union, Sitakunda, on 15 November 2024; volunteers from a local group released it deep in the nearby hills.
Forest officials rescued a 10-foot python from a village in Koyra, Khulna, and released it into the Sundarbans.
Sixty cobra hatchlings, from eggs carried to Mirsarai by August's flood, were rescued and released into the hills around Mahamaya Lake.
The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu notice of a 10-year-old's death after he was sent away from Kasba upazila health complex without antivenom.
EnvironmentMore than 15 pythons entered villages in Mirsarai, Chattogram, in the year to October 2024, most caught in nets protecting crops. Forest and livestock officials put it down to shrinking habitat and a lack of food; every python was released in the forest.
A public interest writ in the High Court seeks compensation for families of people killed by snakebite and for survivors of bites.
Kuti Mia Molla, a 53-year-old farmer, died after being bitten by a snake while asleep in Lohagara, Narail.
Border Guard Bangladesh found three glass bottles holding 300 grams of snake venom in an abandoned bag on the Mahananda Express at Darshana.
Shakil, 18, the son of a snake charmer, died after being bitten by a venomous snake while trying to catch snakes on the bank of the Jamuna river in Dinajpur.
A 12-foot python caught in wire netting at a home in Mirsarai was rescued unharmed and released into the forest.
