A five-day exhibition of 51 photographs of the Chittagong Hill Tracts' birds, wildlife and landscapes will open in Khagrachhari on Saturday to raise awareness of nature conservation.
The stingray, called shapla pata fish in Bengali, is a slow-moving sea creature with a venomous tail that is protected in Bangladesh but still sold openly.
Agriculture minister Dr Abdur Razzaque told parliament that Bangladesh ranks third in the world in rice cultivation, and set out the government's seed production plans and incentives for small farmers.
A second American patient to receive a pig's heart in a rare transplant has died, weeks after the operation at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Hyacinth beans are plentiful in the markets, and a simple vegetarian curry with potato, brinjal and lentil dumplings makes a tasty dish with hot rice.
A Marma farmer in Bandarban has turned three wild jungle fowl eggs into a farm of more than 150 birds, disproving the belief that jungle fowl cannot be tamed.
With potato prices climbing in local markets, the government has allowed imports, approving 19,400 tonnes on the first day.
Police in Bakalia, Chattogram, arrested two young men with two gorkhodok animals from an auto-rickshaw near the Shah Amanat Bridge and filed a case under the wildlife conservation law.
A 25-year-old man in Aditmari, Lalmonirhat, died after being bitten by a venomous snake he had caught and was handling while a friend filmed him.
An injured fishing cat found lying on a road in Jajira upazila of Shariatpur was taken home and revived by a local man before the authorities were told.
A ward-level Awami League leader in Damudya, Shariatpur, died of a snakebite after his family said the district hospital did not give him antivenom because no doctor was available.
As migratory birds arrive in Chalan Beel with the start of winter, hunters are killing them with poison, nets and traps, and volunteers blame weak oversight by the authorities.
Ripe and raw bananas each have their own nutritional benefits, and eating both can help keep chronic illness at bay.
