IUB welcomes Bengali new year with various events
Independent University, Bangladesh has welcomed the Bengali New Year 1432 through various events at its campus of Bashundhara in Dhaka...
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Milestone College celebrates Bengali year-1432
Milestone College and Milestone Preparatory KG School welcomed the Bengali New Year 1432 with traditional arrangements of the prevailing culture on Monday...
CUET celebrates Bangla new year
Bangla New Year-1432 was celebrated at Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology on Monday...
Restoring voting rights is nation鈥檚 aspiration this Bengali new year, Rizvi says
Bangladesh Nationalist Party senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Monday said the nation鈥檚 aspiration this Bengali new year is to quickly restore the people鈥檚 voting rights.
Pahela Baishakh today
The nation celebrates Pahela Baishakh, the first day of the Bengali New Year 1432, today by organising various programmes at public venues in the capital and elsewhere across the country.
Nababarsho: performing the (imagi)nation
ON THE first day of Baishakh, the Bengali New Year, the streets of Dhaka transform into a theatre of colour, memory and aspiration. Celebrated by Bengalis across religious lines, in both rural fields and urban neighbourhoods, Nababarsho is more than a calendar event, a declaration of identity. The performances that unfurl on this day offer a glimpse not only into how...
Two motifs symbolising fascism set on fire
An unidentified youth set fire to two motifs crafted for the upcoming Bengali New Year鈥檚 Barshabaran Ananda Shobhajatra at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Dhaka University early Saturday.
Govt orders all edn instts to celebrate Pahela Baishakh
The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education under the education ministry on Monday ordered all educational institutions under it to celebrate Bengali New Year on April 14...
Inter-ministerial meeting to discuss Bengali New Year preparation on March 23
An inter-ministerial meeting on peaceful celebration of Bengali New Year will be held at the meeting room of cultural affairs ministry at the secretariat here at 12:00pm on March 23.
China economy gets New Year boost
China鈥檚 sluggish domestic consumption got a boost over the weeklong Lunar New Year holiday, with travel and retail sales聽both offering a slight reprieve to a dragging economy facing the prospect of an escalating US trade war...
Hundreds of millions in Asia celebrate Year of the Snake
From incense offerings and vibrant lion dances in Beijing to prayer rituals at temples in Bangkok and Taipei, hundreds of millions of people across Asia celebrated the Lunar New Year on Wednesday, ushering in the Year of the Snake...
BGIC celebrates new year
Bangladesh General Insurance Company PLC welcomed 2025 with by arranging a function at the Head office...
Authorities need to be stringent about firework ban
THE failure of the authorities to enforce the ban that they imposed on fireworks, crackers and sky lanterns in New Year celebrations is unacceptable. The city police on December 31 issued 10 instructions to keep law and order and ensure public safety in Dhaka on New Year鈥檚 Eve and in New Year鈥檚 celebrations. The instructions included a prohibition on the use...
Israeli strikes kill 12 in Gaza
Israeli strikes killed at least 12 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, mostly women and children, officials said on Wednesday, as the nearly 15-month war ground on into the new year with no end in sight...
Schoolboy dies falling from rooftop during New Year celebration
Tragedy struck in Baraigram upazila of Natore on Tuesday night as a tenth-grade student fell to his death from the rooftop of a three-story building while celebrating the New Year...
South Korea air crash investigators extract black box data
Grieving relatives of the victims of the South Korea plane crash gathered at the site to pay respects to their loved ones on New Year鈥檚 Day, as officials said they鈥檝e extracted data from one of the retrieved black boxes to find the exact cause of the crash...
NEW YEAR CELEBRATION: Ban on fireworks, lanterns largely ignored
Defying a ban from the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, the city people celebrated New Year鈥檚 Eve with fireworks, crackers and sky lanterns from Tuesday evening to the small hours on Wednesday as elsewhere across the country...
New Year welcomed amid restrictions
People welcomed 2025 on Tuesday night amid restrictions on outdoor celebrations in the capital and elsewhere across the country, bidding farewell to the outgoing year with fresh hopes and apprehensions.
Happy New Year from death row
IT鈥橲 not difficult to suppose that prisoners also celebrate the New Year, including those on death row. With the advent of the means to annihilate all life on planet Earth, the entire human race...
World greets New Year after tumultuous 2024
Crowds will marvel at fireworks and toast champagne to greet 2025 on Tuesday, waving goodbye to a year that brought Olympic glory, a dramatic Donald Trump return and turmoil in the Middle East and Ukraine.
3C temp slide likely by New Year dawn
The New Year鈥檚 dawn might bring up to 3C drop in the temperature, warned the Bangladesh Meteorological Department on Monday.
HC petition seeks ban on fireworks, nuisance on New Year鈥檚 Eve
A Supreme Court lawyer on Monday filed a writ petition with the High Court urging the court to direct authorities and law enforcement agencies to curb fireworks, public nuisance, and...
List of 1,156 rivers published
The government on Tuesday published a primary list of 1,156 rivers across the country to finalise rivers鈥� list by the next Bengali New Year after necessary verification...
Future Lanka leaders need to grasp nettles
THE New Year celebrations this year were low key compared to the past. The loud sound of crackers and other fireworks that traditionally accompany the dawn of the New Year were less than in the past. The economic burden...
Cultural activists usher in Baishakh breaking time limit for celebrations
Cultural activists on Sunday celebrated Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bengali year 1431, breaking the time limit for Bengali new year celebrations announced by...