Deep compassion for oppressed women is not the tribal partisanship Islam forbids, Prothom Alo's religion desk explains from hadith and classical scholars; what is forbidden is backing one's own group in wrongdoing.
Atifa Nasrin Rakhi of Dimla in Nilphamari started with Tk 1,000 worth of cactus in 2020 and now runs a commercial nursery earning her up to a lakh taka a month.
A 26-year-old housewife in Daulatpur, Kushtia, died of a venomous snakebite after her family took her to an exorcist for hours instead of to hospital.
Three hundred families in Jamalpur whose three goats from World Vision Bangladesh have grown into herds of 12 to 15 are each giving a goat to a poorer neighbour.
Sajeda Begum, 50, of Ulipur in Kurigram has again climbed to the top of a tamarind tree, a month after a similar incident.
LivestockA woman was gored by a cow at Gharmora Bazar in Homna upazila of Cumilla at noon on 25 May 2026, ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, and was declared dead at the upazila health complex, police said.
CropsIn January 2026 village families across Pabna were busy every winter morning making kumra bori, sun-dried dumplings of ground lentils and ripe ash gourd; makers told Jagonews24 they sold them wholesale at Tk 90-110 a kilogram and that the work gave them extra income.
Winter has started the kumra bori season in Narail, where village women make the sun-dried dumplings for home and for sale.
Rural women sustain Bangladesh's village economy and family welfare, yet their labour is still treated as duty rather than work that deserves recognition.
A 19-year-old housewife in Pabna's Ishwardi died after being bitten by a snake while cooking, and her neighbour says she was given no antivenom.
Daily lifeOn 15 September 2025, ten men in Jangalia village of Barguna Sadar ground onion and dried chilli in front of their wives, closing a week-long "Gender Role Shifting Game" run by the NGO Jago Nari to promote men's equal share of housework.
A 55-year-old woman in a remote char of Matlab Uttar, Chandpur, died after a cobra bit her as she was finishing her prayers.
A 40-year-old woman in Patuakhali died after a snake bit her while she was cooking, despite being given antivenom in hospital.
