Heatwave Sweeps Across The Bangladesh

Heatwave Sweeps Across The Bangladesh

rickshaw puller drinks from a water bottle during the heatwave in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 19 April 2024. The Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) on 15 April warned that the mild to moderate heatwave that has been sweeping over Rajshahi, Dhaka, Khulna, Barisal, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions will continue for the next five days. Photo by Habibur Rahman/ABACAPRESS.COM

Heatwave Sweeps Across The Bangladesh

Heatwave Sweeps Across The Bangladesh

rickshaw puller drinks from a water bottle during the heatwave in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 19 April 2024. The Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) on 15 April warned that the mild to moderate heatwave that has been sweeping over Rajshahi, Dhaka, Khulna, Barisal, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions will continue for the next five days. Photo by Habibur Rahman/ABACAPRESS.COM

Heatwave Sweeps Across The Bangladesh

Heatwave Sweeps Across The Bangladesh

rickshaw puller drinks from a water bottle during the heatwave in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 19 April 2024. The Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) on 15 April warned that the mild to moderate heatwave that has been sweeping over Rajshahi, Dhaka, Khulna, Barisal, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions will continue for the next five days. Photo by Habibur Rahman/ABACAPRESS.COM

Heatwave Sweeps Across The Bangladesh

Heatwave Sweeps Across The Bangladesh

rickshaw puller drinks from a water bottle during the heatwave in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 19 April 2024. The Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) on 15 April warned that the mild to moderate heatwave that has been sweeping over Rajshahi, Dhaka, Khulna, Barisal, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions will continue for the next five days. Photo by Habibur Rahman/ABACAPRESS.COM

Lychee season now in full swing in Bangladesh

STORY: Lychee season now in full swing in Bangladesh DATELINE: May 25, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:57 LOCATION: Dhaka CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of vendors selling lychees in the market STORYLINE: Summer in Bangladesh is incomplete without juicy and fleshy lychees. Lychee season is now in full swing in Bangladesh with a variety of the delicious tropical fruit flooding capital Dhaka to make this summer sweeter. Traders in Dhaka said there is huge demand for lychees in the markets at present and they are getting good prices. The prices for a bundle of 100 lychee pieces range from 400-600 taka (4-6 U.S. dollars) in the retail markets in Dhaka. Although there are dozens of varieties grown all over Bangladesh, lychees from the country's western Rajshahi region, Dinanjpur district to be more specific, are very popular for their mouth-watering taste, special red colour, big size and thick pulp with smaller seed. Lychees from Dinajpur, the largest growing district, some 338 km northwest of the capital, are