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.

Nobody can enter Ramna Park and Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka after 4:00pm on Pahela Baishakh, DMP Additional Commissioner Monirul Islam announces.

Vuvuzela, matches and lighters have been banned at Mongol Shovajatra brought out from the Institute of Fine Arts in Dhaka every year to celebrate the Bangla new year, the home minister said today.

A Dhaka court yesterday ordered Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to further investigate the case filed in connection with sexual harassment of some women during the Pahela Baishakh celebrations on the Dhaka University campus last year.

A Dhaka court orders further investigation in a case filed over sexual assault during Pahela Baishakh celebration near TSC of Dhaka University last year.

A Dhaka court sends Kamal Hossain, an arrestee of Pahela Baishakh sexual assault case, to jail after he refused to give confessional statement before a magistrate in connection with the sensational case.

A Dhaka court places the lone arrestee in connection with sexual assault during Pahela Baishakh celebration at Dhaka University on a two-day remand. The arrestee is among the eight persons identified from CCTV footage.

Bangladesh Hindu-Bouddha-Christian Oikya Parishad claims that Awami Olama League is trying to destroy communal harmony in the country by delivering distasteful and baseless speeches.

It is shocking that eight months into the incident of sexual assault on women during this year's Pahela Baishakh celebrations...

Police failure to bring the sex offenders of the Pahela Baishakh incident to book gives a worrying message about law

Detectives submit the final report in Pahela Baishakh sexual harassment case saying the incident took place but none of the offenders could be identified or arrested.

State minister for home claims some of the women assaulters on Dhaka University campus have been caught, but neither police or Rab agree to the claim.

A friend testifies that Bakhtiar Alam Rony fired gunshots in a drunken state on April 14, killing two people in Dhaka.

Why did it take so many days for the police to scan the CCTV footage to finally come up with these obscure photos which, eye witnesses, consider do not include many of the other culprits.

Eight people are identified from the close circuit camera footage of the sexual assault during Pahela Baishakh celebrations at Dhaka University, and Tk 1 lakh has been announced as reward for capture of each assaulter.

In a one-to-one conversation with The Daily Star, Bangladesh Chhatra Union activist Ismat Jahan Joe tells of her account of the day when students were thrashed away by cops while trying to lay a siege to Dhaka police headquarters protesting the April 14 sexual assault on women.

High Court asks government to explain why it should not direct to form a permanent task force to address the incident of violation of human rights by law enforcers.

When cops swooped on the protesters, it only reflected the government’s and the administration’s indifferent attitude towards the Pahela Baishakh sexual assault. We were shocked because we as civilized human beings expected rational reaction from the authorities. We should not have.

Leaders and activists of different socio-political organisations besiege the office of Dhaka University Vice Chancellor protesting the authorities’ dillydallying role to punish the culprits involved in sexual assault against women during Pahela Baishakh celebrations.