Lychee farmers and traders in Dinajpur expect a bumper harvest of lychee this year. However, they are worried about incurring loss due to the present political unrest in the country.

Supporters of Awami League-backed mayoral and councilor candidates stuffed ballot boxes indiscriminately driving out poling agents of BNP-backed candidates from a polling booth at Kamalapur Sher-e Bangla Railway High School Centre-1 today.

Ruling Party Awami League supporters allegedly stormed into Uttar Kafrul Government Primary School and vandalised ballot boxes in Cantonment area under Dhaka North City Corporation this morning.

Presiding officer looks helpless as BCL men enter all the six polling booths of Dhaka College polling centre and stuff ballot boxes at their will.

The Daily Star asks the residents of Dhaka: What would you do if you become mayor? Let’s see what they have to say...

Pedestrians face disruption while walking through the footpaths in Dhaka. Many footpaths of the city, which is one of the populated cities in the world, are seen full of vendors and makeshift shops.

In Rampura slum, the dwellers are not aware even after a recent disaster. It is the area, where a two-storey tin structure housing around 20 families, collapsed into a marshland on April 15, killing 12 people.

Social networking platforms Facebook, Twitter witness users exchange ideas of resisting harassment to women as protests against the Pahela Baishakh assault continue.

The adminstration’s underplaying and protesters’ accusations on sexual assault during Pahela Baishakh celebration should thoroughly be probed, opines Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor Professor AAMS Arefin Siddique.

A group of people hurl brickbats, stones and sticks at the motorcade of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at Banglamotor crossing in Dhaka, leaving several vehicles including her SUV damaged.

Banned in the country for its consequences, gill nets are still aplenty in Bangladesh.

A deltaic country, the plains of Bangladesh are crisscrossed with a million water bodies. The canals, marshlands and the rivers make the quintessential image that Rural Bengal conjures up.

Muntasir Mamun, Professor of History at University of Dhaka, and Hashem Sufi, Researcher of History, tell us the facts behind how Bengali New Year celebration on Pahela Baishakh came to be.

Protest outbursts in the wake of heinous sexual assault during Pahela Baishakh celebration at Dhaka University on 14th April. Liton Nandi, president of leftist student body, Bangladesh Chhatra Union of the university unit was the youth who first apparently came to resist the rowdy mob at TSC area.

Through social media popularly in facebook, people from different walks of lives come down heavily to protest the incidents demanding exemplary punishment of the assaulters.

Thousands of people gathered at Ramna Park and on Dhaka University campus to welcome the Bengali New Year 1422. Authorities concerned chalked out several traditional programmes to celebrate the occasion.

In the wake of mass outrage against sexual assault on women during Pahela Baishakh celebrations on Dhaka University campus, the ruling Awami League’s student wing Bangladesh Chhatra League keeps itself aloof from any protest.

People are thronging the boutiques and fashion houses in Dhaka to complete the last-minute shopping spree for celebrating Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangla New Year.

Poetry in a plate. This Pohela Baishkah do something different, explore your city its heritage, savoring the eccentric and rich variety of food of Old Dhaka and the street food of Dhaka University.

Just keeping away the day-to-day vehicles, riding on traditional horse carts can make your moments more eventful on this very first day of Bangla Calendar.