Under a new TCB guideline, family card holders keep their monthly oil, sugar and lentils, while soap, salt, tea, flour and spices become optional products that anyone can buy.
The hilsa catch in the lower Padma has fallen by more than 46 per cent in four years, pushing fishermen in Manikganj to give up their trade.
As farmers in Moulvibazar switch to high-yielding rice for bigger harvests, local varieties are disappearing for lack of seed conservation and research.
Syed Mazarul Islam Rubel argues that successful tree planting depends not on numbers but on planting the right species in the right place.
Hilsa supply at Barishal's wholesale markets has nearly doubled in a week, pushing wholesale prices down by up to about Tk 20,000 a maund.
A 2.1 kg hilsa caught in the Bay of Bengal off Kuakata sold at auction for Tk 7,200, at a rate of Tk 3,625 a kg.
With a little patience and the right technique, the fine bones of hilsa can be removed at home, either from raw fish or after a brief steaming.
Many people assume every snake is venomous, but about 80 per cent of Bangladesh's snakes are not; here are the 10 most commonly seen species and which ones are dangerous.
Government-appointed fertiliser dealers will get a commission of Tk 3 a kg on all fertilisers, up from Tk 2, from next July, while the price farmers pay stays unchanged.
Vultures in Habiganj have halved in five years after dozens died eating poisoned carcasses in Moulvibazar, and because a vulture that loses its mate does not pair again, breeding has stalled.
In a reversal of the usual trade, about 500 tonnes of hilsa have gone from India to Bangladesh through Petrapole land port in two months, and Indian traders say another 150 to 200 tonnes may follow.
A four-and-a-half-year-old boy in Tangail's Sakhipur died of a snakebite after being bitten in his sleep and referred to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital for lack of ICU care.
Catching hilsa will be banned across Bangladesh for 22 days from 8 to 29 October to protect the fish in its main breeding season, the national hilsa task force has decided.
