CookingAn egg broken on to a rice-flour chitoi pitha, topped with pepper, chilli and coriander and cooked covered for 5 to 6 minutes, makes a spicy winter snack. The recipe, published by Jagonews24 on 29 December 2025, checked and explained.
A spell of severe cold and dense fog in Moulvibazar is hitting tea garden workers and day labourers who lack warm clothes but must keep working.
CropsIn late December 2025, at the start of the Bengali month of Poush, farmers in Magura's four upazilas were transplanting early onion seedlings through cold and fog; the district's agriculture office put onion area at 858 hectares.
CookingOn 26 December 2025 Jagonews24 published an easy recipe for kheersa pitha: a filling of milk cooked down with powdered and condensed milk, wrapped in thick rice-flour dough and deep-fried over a low flame.
With cold waves likely later in the winter, Boro rice farmers need to take extra care of their seedbeds to keep seedlings healthy.
EnvironmentIn late December 2025 Rangpur was still waiting for the hard cold it once had from November; the officer-in-charge of the Rangpur weather office said winter was "shifting" and named climate change, a lack of cold winds and a dry year among the causes.
Crisp pakoras made with fresh winter vegetables bring taste and nutrition together for a cold afternoon over tea.
CookingRipe red tomatoes, carrot, onion, garlic, stock and cream make a quick cream of tomato soup at home. Here are the ingredients and steps of the recipe Jagonews24 published in December 2025.
FruitsThe winter sap season raises the risk of Nipah virus in Bangladesh. WHO puts the death rate at 40 to 75 percent, and not drinking raw date palm sap is the main protection.
The yellow mustard flowers that fill winter fields are also a nutritious food, rich in vitamins, minerals and antioxidants.
With cold-related illness rising in Sunamganj, the children's ward of the district hospital holds about twice as many patients as beds, and many are treated on the floor.
LivestockIn December 2025 intern veterinarian Md Rajibul Islam told Jagonews24 how to house, feed and watch over cattle, calves and pregnant cows in the cold; veterinary references and Bangladeshi law add the context.
CropsAs winter set in early in December 2025, gachhis (sap collectors) in Chandpur's Matlab Uttar upazila were tapping date palms; the upazila agriculture office counted about 2,177 trees, most of them being tapped.
