British Prime Minister David Cameron on the occasion of Bangla New Year selects Rushanara Ali, a Bangladeshi-origin British lawmaker, to join the cross-party Trade Envoy network as trade envoy for Bangladesh.

BBC dismisses complaints by anti-GMO activists that its Panorama film ‘GM Food: Cultivating Fear‘, broadcasted in June 2015, is biased and inaccurate. In a lengthy judgement just published (pdf), the BBC’s highest complaints body, found that all the complaints made about the programme were without merit.

Rain or thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at one or two places in Dhaka today, the met office says.

The Border Guard Bangladesh have brought back 40 Bangladeshi women, who were detained by Indian police from bordering area near Netrakona.

This Bangla new year will bring good days for the people of Bangladesh, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia hopes.

US President Barack Obama today sent his greetings to Bangladeshi peoples on the occasion of Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bengali New Year.

Chittagong Development Authority identifies three of nine buildings, which tilted during yesterday’s earthquake, as “dangerous”.

A person is killed and three others are injured as a gas cylinder of a car explodes at Ashulia, on the outskirts area of the capital, Dhaka.

Extending her heartfelt greetings to all, including expatriate Bangladeshis on Pahela Baishakh, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says everybody needs to exercise tolerance as it is essential for the country's uninterrupted development.

The United States has said the government of Bangladesh took 'limited measures' to investigate and prosecute cases of abuse and killing by security forces. The US, in its 2015 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, claimed authorities failed at times to maintain effective control over security forces.

Are the Bangla New Year and Halkhata celebrations today similar to the way they were back in the ‘50's or ‘60’s? How did Bangalis welcome the New Year in those days?

Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangla calendar, was celebrated amid traditional festivities and enthusiasm despite various restrictions prompted by last year’s women assault on Dhaka University campus.

At least four people are killed as a truck rammed into a battery-run three-wheeler in Naogaon Sadar upazila.

50 people are injured while rushing out of RMG factories in EPZ and Oxygen areas and four buildings tilted in Chittagong after a 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar.

The Anti-Corruption Commission files a case against former chairman of Ekushey Television Abdus Salam and two others over alleged money laundering.

Cops arrest an engineer of public health engineering dept and a contractor for using bamboo instead of iron rods in construction of school toilet in Gaibandha.

You are wrong if you think that Mongol Shobhajatra began long ago. A group of students of Fine Arts Institute of Dhaka University (DU) brought out the first colourful procession marking Pahela Baishakh in 1989.

The busy urban living does not allow us to perform many of our rituals, festivities and practices the way our families observed them over the years. One such ritual is Chaitra Sankranti celebration.

State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid warns petrol pump owners saying that their licences will be cancelled if anyone stops selling petroleum fuel fearing loss after their price cut.

Awami League (AL) Publicity Affairs Secretary Hasan Mahmud says Olama League does not have any affiliation with the ruling party.