Though unusual, fishermen are catching hilsa in Hakaluki Haor, the largest wetland in the country.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sends 20 kilograms of hilsa from the Padma river for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is going to take oath for the second term tomorrow.

Apropos to the news “Call on Myanmar, Bangladesh, India to conserve hilsa” (TDS, May 5, 2016), it is important to mention that not only hilsa...

Bangladesh, India and Myanmar have agreed to work together for collaborative efforts to conserve Hilsa, the national fish of Bangladesh.

At least 50 people became sick after having food at a Pahela Baishakh programme in Kachua upazila town on Thursday.

Pahela Baisakh in Dhaka at the Suhrawardi Udyan fare with Hilsa and panta bhat. A writer-poet, now living in Canada, made the claim sometime back that it was he and his group of friends who started the fad.

Hilsa, our national fish, has become an inseparable part of Pahela Baishakh (Bangla New Year) celebrations, but experts say the practice has no roots in a thousand years of Bengali tradition.

The price of hilsa has shot up just a week ahead of Pahela Baishakh because of supply shortfall triggered by a ban on catching the fish in some certain parts in the rivers.

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

THOUGH the government amended the Protection and Conservation of Fish Act (1950) in the year 2002 to ban the manufacture and