CropsHilsa rubbed by hand with onion, turmeric, chilli, crushed green chillies and mustard oil, then braised covered in a little water, makes hand-mixed hilsa bhuna in 7 to 10 minutes, a recipe published in the monsoon hilsa season of July 2026.
LivestockDuring a heatwave in Bangladesh in early July 2026, a veterinarian warned that heat raises the risk of dehydration and heat stroke in pets and street animals; an animal showing the signs must be cooled quickly and taken to a vet.
Whether tilapia is good or bad for you depends largely on where and how it is farmed and how it is cooked.
EnvironmentIn a column published on 6 July 2026, Jago News deputy editor Dr Harun Rashid used an imagined conversation between two birds to argue that development without wisdom is costing Bangladesh its forests and birds. The 2015 Red List found 19 of the country's 566 bird species lost and 39 threatened.
Farmers in Pakundia, Kishoreganj, are harvesting Black Queen watermelons in July, long after the normal season, using trellises, nets and mulch to earn high profits.
A 35 kg catla caught in the Padma was bought at auction at Daulatdia fish market and resold for Tk 73,500.
Bananas are highly nutritious, but when you eat them affects how well the body uses their nutrients.
FisheriesOn 4 July 2026, a 2 kg 100 g hilsa netted by the trawler 'Joltorongo' in the Bay of Bengal off Kuakata sold for Tk 6,825 at auction at a depot of the Alipur fish landing centre.
EnvironmentOn the evening of 4 July 2026, the sick circus elephant Badsha Bahadur was handed to the Department of Livestock Services at Mahasthan in Bogura, to be taken to the National Zoo in Dhaka for treatment on Prime Minister Tarique Rahman's instruction.
A group of young football fans turned World Cup fervour into a tree-planting drive, planting and distributing 500 native saplings in Kouri village of Harirampur, Manikganj.
EnvironmentA woman in Yuanyang county, Yunnan, was poisoned after copying a television method and sucking cobra venom from her farmer husband's bitten finger; reports in early July 2026 said both were treated with antivenom and discharged.
FruitsBangladesh's national fruit was being sold in the US, UK, Australia and Europe as a plant-based meat substitute; a Jagonews24 feature on 4 July 2026 put it down to the fibrous texture and mild flavour of unripe jackfruit.
Coral reef fish, a hawk and a rabbit, and bears eating salmon illustrate how living and non-living parts of an ecosystem depend on one another.
