Plants were never before this popular with Dhaka dwellers as it is this year. According to nursery owners who are participating in the on-going national plant fair “Jatiya Brikkho Mela” at Agargaon in Dhaka, the sale of plants this year has surpassed that of any previous years.

If you have not seen the Kantaji temple of Dinajpur, you have not seen how artistic the late-medieval community Bengal had been.

Around 125 years ago, one Purno Mondal from Atgar-Kuriyana union in Nesarabad upazila of Pirojpur went to Goya, a sacred place of the Hindu community in India for religious purpose. He collected some guava seeds from there and eventually planted them in his village home.

Sabina Yasmin, a living legend in music who grabbed 13 national awards and innumerable other national and international awards with her voice in a career that has spanned over four decades, keeps mesmerising Bangla music lovers.

Dhaka North City Corporation introduces ‘community rickshaw’ services aiming much publicity, however only a few were seen plying on the streets of Niketon area today.

With the advent of the digital printing press, Riskshaw painting a previously well known art form is on the verge of extinction. Many painters had to switch their profession to survive the "digital revolution".

They don't go to schools, schools come to them.

Some 22 floating schools locally known as “Nouka School” moved in to the submerged Chalanbeel area spanning over three districts providing academic facilities to more than 2,000 underprivileged children in the last few years.

Imagine that you and your ancestors have been living in an area for 175 years; but you don’t have any right to own a land. Imagine that after living in an area for so many years, you cannot even sell a tree that you planted without the permission of the ‘authority’. This is the story of almost any tea garden worker in the country.

One of Md Aslam's favourite pastimes was to spend time with his father near the bank of Dholai Khal. The father and son duo used to sit together in the afternoon, enjoy fresh air and watch boats gently glide over the canal.

The militants who were killed in gunfight with the law enforcers early morning Tuesday changed their dress after the Fazr prayers and wore black punjabis, said a neighbour who observed the militants time to time from around midnight till dawn from an adjacent building.

In our country there are many entrepreneurs who want to be fish farmers but don't know how to start their own business. Mohammed Zakir Hossain, project manager of USAID Aquaculture for Income and Nutrition shares his experience with Star Live and explains the "Do's and Don'ts" about fish farming. If you are planning to take up this venture then this video is a must-watch for you.

The use of traditional boats may be disappearing fast, but there is one place in Nesarabad upazila (formerly Swarupkathi) in Pirojpur, where you can still buy newly made boats for a trifle amount.

Until a few decades ago, at a time when electricity and television were not so widespread in rural Bangladesh, puthi, a

Farmers of the marshland in Nazirpur upazila of Pirojpur are busy in growing vegetable saplings on water bed, locally known as ‘Dhap’.

Although it is almost impossible to fathom, canals have been a significant part of the capital's landscape. Even in the late

Bangladesh is the second largest apparel exporter in the world, after China. The market share of Bangladesh, in the $503 billion global garment items is 5.1 percent, according to data from the International Trade Statistics of the World Bank in 2014.

A rich and unique collection of antiquities, sculptures Islamic art, traditional-art and contemporary art, the Chittagong University Museum-the only university-run specialised museum in the country is definitely worth a visit.

Within only a few weeks of Sonar Bangla Express inauguration, complaints have surfaced. The authorities might term the express as a luxury train, but their definition of ‘luxury’ comes into question.

Dutch banker and travel agent Joanna Wittekoek, who now goes by the name 'Dutch Mother', fell in love Bangladesh and the children of the orphanage, 'Dutch Shalom Family for Children', and decided to devote her life to the cause.