Manikganj district unit of Udichi Shilpi Goshthi organised Gono Sangeet Utshab in Manikganj on Saturday evening.

Cancel all your plans for this evening, because the Rupchanda-The Daily Star Super Chef 2015 is finally here. Tonight at 9pm, the show returns for the second season running and this time it is bigger,

Cate Blanchett, Matthew McConaughey, Marion Cotillard and Sir Michael Caine are among those with films competing at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

The weather in the Indian capital was just right for ushering in the Noboborsho – cool breeze, chunks of clouds gliding across an azure sky and the

It was a star-studded scenario at the Trust Auditorium in the capital on Pahela Baishakh as hundreds of celebrities gathered at the venue

“Celebrating Life”, a Standard Chartered Bank-The Daily Star tie-up to award talents in the sphere of photography, lyrics and film, arranged a launching ceremony of seven audio CDs and two photography books at Sonargaon Hotel in the capital on April 15.

Several cultural groups of Mymensingh staged colourful performances on Pahela Baishakh.

Pahela Baishakh, since the nineties, has had a boom – in terms of participation, grandeur, outreach and possibly 'urbanisation' of the festival.

Thousands of people assembled under the Bodhi Vriksha (A holy tree under which Lord Buddha got enlightenment) of Ramna Park to hail Pahela Baishakh. This year, Chhayanaut's Borshoboron programme, themed on “Peace, Humanity and Rights of Human Beings”, set off with sitar recital on Raga Parameshwari (created by Pandit Ravi Shankar) by Ebadul Huq Shaikat.

As a new dawn ushers in the Bangla New Year 1422, the capital is abuzz with Baishakhi melodies, colours and merriment.

Like previous years, a watercolour camp is being held at Nokkhottrobari resort, Gazipur. The fourth installment of the camp started yesterday (April 12) and will continue till Pahela Baishakh (April 14).

Chaitra Sankranti is an age-old festival of rural Bangla which marks the last day of a Bangla year. The Bangla calendar is solar, with the year beginning on Pahela Baishakh.

A five-day (April 10-14) crafts fair is on at the premises of Bengal Gallery in Dhanmondi, Dhaka.

“It was around 1974 when I recorded that song, in Kolkata. It became a huge hit there, and a few months later when I was traveling back there

National Crafts Council of Bangladesh (NCCB) and Bengal Foundation jointly organised an award ceremony and a five-day fair to promote crafts that appear to be disappearing in Bangladesh.

Thursday was a day of heavy rains in the Moulvibazar area. Like the new tea leaves blooming on every plant, an air of festivity lingered in the tea estates.

Noted singers, lyricists and musicians inaugurated Gaan Mela at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA) premises on April 9. Music Industries Owners Association of Bangladesh (MIB) has organised the 10-day music fair.

Preparations for Chaitra Sangkranti and Pohela Boishakh are gathering steam in Barisal city.

As elsewhere in the country, socio-cultural and educational organisations of the port city are now busy readying to herald Pohela Boishakh, the first day of the Bangla New Year, and to bid farewell to the old year.

Legendary film actress Suchitra Sen's 84th birth anniversary was observed in Pabna amidst festivity on April 6.