Nabanna Festival Mood Fills Homes Across Magura
Farming households in Magura are busy harvesting new paddy and making rice flour for Nabanna, the harvest festival many say is slipping into the past.
Farming households in Magura are busy harvesting new paddy and making rice flour for Nabanna, the harvest festival many say is slipping into the past.
A good aman crop after timely rain has put Manikganj's farming families in a festive mood as they harvest and bring the paddy home.
More than two weeks into the 22-day drive to protect mother hilsa, fishermen are still catching hilsa and attacking enforcement teams, according to a BBC Bangla field report.
From October to March the beels and rivers of Kaliganj in Gazipur fill with anglers, some fishing for a living and many just for the joy of it.
A Chhatra Dal convening committee member at Jagannath University organised a two-day fruit and pitha festival for students.
The Dhaka Reporters Unity held a fruit festival at its Shafiqul Kabir auditorium on Wednesday, 16 July.
Growers from Bangladesh's famous mango regions brought their own fruit to Pran's Mango Festival, which opened in Dhanmondi on 10 July.
Pran Group said growers from Bangladesh's famous mango regions will sell their own fruit at a three-day Mango Festival in Dhanmondi from 10 July.
A volunteer group at Islamic University held a seasonal fruit festival for underprivileged children, distributing about 20 kinds of fruit.
The three-day National Fruit Fair in Dhaka drew heavy crowds on its last day, with mangoes dominating the stalls and sellers reporting better sales than in past years.
Writers at the Sareng Sahitya Sabha's Eid reunion and fruit festival in Dhaka said literary gatherings nurture literature and should be continued and spread.
A three-day national fruit fair displaying 65 species of local fruit opened in Munshiganj on 19 June.
The Chinese lunar new year began on 29 January 2025, opening the Year of the Snake and China's biggest festival, rooted in a calendar long used to guide farming.