Just before the sunset, a flock of painted storks was spotted on a char of the Padma river in Rajshahi. Experts said the winter visitor -- a colourful bird with an enormous bill, very long legs and of various shades of pink and red -- has arrived early this year. The photo was taken recently.

There was a king named Prithu Raja in northern Bangladesh in the 13th century. He had a fort city in Panchagarh called Bhitargarh, and he may or may not have died by committing suicide in a lake.

The five-day Durga Puja, the greatest of all Hindu festivals, will come to an end with solemn immersion of the Goddess Durga in the capital and elsewhere in the country.

While Purbachal is a fancy name of a pummelled river-bed and uprooted Sal forest, all to extend the suburb for the capital’s burgeoning population, birds do not find the place unattractive because it is mostly uninhabited, unkempt and rather quiet, at least, for the time bein

A visitor bird and seen often during summer, the Jacobin Cuckoo has made yet another appearance in Bangladesh during it’s mating season.

A blue-tailed bee-eater flies away with a dragonfly in its mouth in Chattogram city’s Salimpur Bajid area. The richly coloured, slender bird mainly eats insects, especially bees, wasps, and dragonflies, which are caught during flight. The photo was taken a couple of days ago.

There was something special about the morning of May 28. I was immersing myself in the mystic beauty of nature on a visit to Babudaying -- a hillock some ten kilometres from Chapainawabganj town.

Birdwatchers across Bangladesh already have an abundance of bird species to watch, photograph and marvel at. However, every now and then, one will get lucky enough to find a new addition to our already blossoming flora and fauna.

It’s quite an incredible feat to still have more than 600 species of birds in our country and with the increasing numbers of birdwatchers and wildlife photographers every year, many new species are being discovered or rediscovered.

There is only one way of entering and getting out of Malingapara, a remote village on the upper valley of Sangu, on foot. Another way that we could use to get in or out of the village was by boat through the nearly dead Sangu river.

I was trying to negotiate a treacherous paddy field plot, separating earth bunds, on the bank of Charol Beel in Rajshahi's Rohunpur upazila. I realised the lean sun was brightening up the eastern bank of a village pond in the area.

During the first week of this March there was unexpected weather in the country. Forest was no exception. When I tried to hit the

A few Bangladeshi photographers captured shots of a new species of bird for the first time in the country. It is a Chestnut-cheeked starling that breeds in parts of Japan and nearby Russia.

In this document, which was found in the files of M. S. Jafar and Hamidur Rahman Collaboration, Architects and Engineers, the chief architect of the Shaheed Minar, Hamidur Rahman, recalls how the monument took shape over three decades. The document is reprinted verbatim.

It was around 4pm on February 14. The lawns and courtyards of the historic Burdwan House, the home of Bangla Academy, were crammed with visitors, a predominantly young crowd.

The mighty Padma river has proven to be a haven for rare species of birds, as some of the most fascinating ones are now found mostly in the chars.

Standing atop an elephant watch-tower on the outskirts of the sprawling Rohingya refugee settlement in Cox's Bazar, Nur Islam takes great pride in keeping his people safe.

It was just a few years after the Liberation War in 1971. Caroline Amena Lauritsen was a child then. She does not remember how old she was back then, but her adoption papers say she was three years old.

For the first time in a generation, a rare Purple Heron was spotted near a lake in the capital. These birds of Bangladesh are seen only occasionally in the reed beds of large fresh-water lakes called haors.

On a late December morning, an hour-long stroll through the centuries-old Bamboo forest surrounding the Gandagram village of Shajahanpur upazila revealed the sight of hundreds of small colourful minivets. In awe of such an astonishing sight, I suddenly spotted something different.