A festive Pahela Baishakh 1430 celebrated with colourful processions

With hopes of renewed vigour and good fortune, Bangladesh greeted the first sunrise of the Bengali year 1430. 

This morning, as in years gone by, the Faculty of Fine Arts of Dhaka University organised the Mangal Shobhajatra. The theme of this year's procession was "Borisho dhora majhe shantiro bari," a line from a famous Rabindranath Tagore song. Apart from this, Chhayanaut celebrated the new year at sunrise at Ramna Batmul.

Apart from Dhaka, there were various festive arrangements to usher in the new year in different parts of the country including Barishal, Khulna, Shariatpur.