The city, Dhaka, is mostly a concrete jungle where nature has a very little part to play. Its greens have vanished or are left to neglect.

As the month of Chaitra, the last in the Bangla year, draws to an end, the Hindu community comes together in a festival dedicated to

A woman is killed after a bus runs over her in Airport area of Dhaka.

They make and mend their nets and then head out to the sea in their boats to fish. They are gone for as long as 15 days.

From shoes to handbags and accessories, from carpets to bed sheets and wind chimes, everything made of jute were on display at a fair in the Krishibid Institute of Bangladesh earlier this month to mark the National Jute Day on March 6. To mark the occasion, even adjacent areas of the Institute were decorated with jute and jute-made products. The government is trying to increase the popularity of jute-made products. “The golden days of jute will make a comeback,” Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had said at a programme of the fair.

Right after all the paddy has been harvested and farmers have taken home their produce, villagers in Bahadurpur of Jessore organise bullock cart race towards the end of January. It is a major event in the area and racers and people from far away travel there to join. Well-bred bulls are used in the race since the stakes are high. The winner can walk away with a TV, bicycle or even a complete audio system.

From the thread you use to attach the button of your shirt that has gone missing to the threads garment factories use for sewing your clothes, every kind of twine is dyed at Bakalia Miakhan Nagar in Chittagong. The yards of the small factories are a festival of colour and workers are busy dying yarn. Some are rolled onto small paper cylinders for use in sewing machines and use by hand while others are rolled on to much bigger rolls for use in large industrial machines.

Creations of 20 artisans of two villages near Paharpur Buddhist Bihar are being showcased in the Terracotta Fair and Exhibition 2017 at the National Museum. With the help of Unesco, the National Crafts Council of Bangladesh held several workshops with the artisans over the last nine months. The fair began on February 10 and would end tomorrow. The Unesco and the National Crafts Council of Bangladesh hope that their year-long project and the exercise and promotional activities would help expand the market for the artisan community.

A lot of discarded plastic of different colours and transparency are collected from the garbage and sorted. The plastic are cleaned and grinded. They are then melted and made into a sort of grain and then molded into fine Tupperware, bathroom buckets and mugs. This market-driven trade goes on in Dhaka almost silently. Many modern cities across the world however have to spend a lot of money to have this recycling done so that the non-biodegradable plastic does not pollute the environment.

In many parts of rural Bangladesh, it's quite common to see earthen pots hanging from date trees in winter. Overnight, the pitchers get filled up with a delicious gift of nature -- date palm juice. The sweet juice collected in the morning is a real treat. It is used for making molasses, a key ingredient in the traditional pithas you love so much. Again, a glass or two of this fresh, raw juice is something to look forward to in chilly winter mornings. The birds love it too. The photos were taken in Khajura of Jessore recently.

Hundreds of people gathered at the month-long Dhaka International Trade Fair, better known as DITF, at the city's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar. The showcase is scheduled to an end on January 31. Usually, the rush increases on weekends. Sellers from home and abroad bring their goods and sell them at reasonably cheap prices. Offers like buy one and get 10 free are not that unusual there. In the pictures, customers are seen buying kitchen items, and garlands made from beads and stones. The sale of fabrics has also been high this year. Of the 580 stalls and pavilions at the fair, 48 have been allocated to companies from 20 foreign nations.

Farmers in Satgaon of Munshiganj, less than 20km from the capital, harvest honey from beehives they had set up at a mustard field. Mustard cultivation and bee farming go hand in hand as the bees help pollination of the flowers boosting mustard production and the pure honey is a much sought after item. The farmers of Satgaon sell this honey in markets for Tk 400 a kg. Honey from mustard fields is different from other types of honey. It becomes pulpy when left in a jar for a while.

Pro-Awami League “blue panel” won nine posts out of 10 in the dean election of Dhaka University yesterday.

With the slogan “If you want to be healthy, have more vegetables”, the three-day National Vegetables Fair 2017 began yesterday at the

In the rolling hills of Sylhet region tea is grown in large estates. About 90 percent of the 166 tea estates of Bangladesh are in this region.

Late autumn in Bangladesh is a season of gaiety and prosperity, ushering in a new hope for the farming community as they reap one of

At churches in Dhaka and across the country Christmas carols, prayers, and special Masses marked the biggest festival of the

THE EYES OF CARTOONISTS

Traffic flows smoothly over the Mayor Hanif Flyover in the capital but beneath it is horrendous chaos, mismanagement and filth,

There was an air of festivity in the capital as the Hindus celebrated their biggest religious festival, the Durga Puja, this month. Decorated mandaps, sounds of dhak and ghanta, strong sweet smell of incense, solemn prayers and cheerful celebrations marked the annual worship of The Great Divine Mother. Prasad, a sweet offering, was distributed among the devotees at the mandaps. The third day of the celebration saw Kumari Puja, in which devotees worship a pre-pubescent girl as a manifestation of the divine female energy. A large number of visitors thronged a temporary mandap in Kalabagan. The idols of goddess were taken to Sadarghat and Wais Ghat on the Buriganga river on Bijoya Dashami to immerse those in water. The photos were taken from Dhanmondi, Kalabagan and Dhakeswari temples.