Abu Hena Md Rahmatul Muneem, chairman of the National Board of Revenue, speaks at a media briefing at his office in Dhaka to mark International Customs Day on Tuesday, Jan 25, 2022. Photo: Kazi Salahuddin Razu

Abu Hena Md Rahmatul Muneem, chairman of the National Board of Revenue, speaks at a media briefing at his office in Dhaka to mark International Customs Day on Tuesday, Jan 25, 2022. Photo: Kazi Salahuddin Razu

A farmer harvests cabbages from a field in Dhaka’s Keraniganj. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

A farmer harvests cabbages from a field in Dhaka’s Keraniganj. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

A man loads a truck with winter vegetable turnips to transport them to a local market in Manikganj’s Singair Upazila. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

University Teachers' Network, a platform of teachers of public and private universities, holds a symbolic hunger strike in front of Dhaka University's Aparajeyo Bangla statue on Monday, Jan 24, 2022, expressing solidarity with the student protesters of the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology in Sylhet who are demanding Vice-Chancellor Farid Uddin Ahmed’s removal. Photo: Kazi Salahuddin Razu

People gather to watch a demolition drive of Dhaka North City Corporation to remove illegal structures from the Lautala canal area in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur on Monday, Jan 24, 2022. Photo: Kazi Salahuddin Razu

Dhaka North City Corporation workers bulldoze parts of a multi-storey building as it launches a demolition drive to remove illegal structures from the Lautala canal area in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur on Monday, Jan 24, 2022. Photo: Kazi Salahuddin Razu

Dhaka North City Corporation workers bulldoze parts of a multi-storey building as it launches a demolition drive to remove illegal structures from the Lautala canal area in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur on Monday, Jan 24, 2022. Photo: Kazi Salahuddin Razu

Pragatisheel Chhatra Jote, a platform of leftist student groups, stages a sit-in in front of Dhaka University's Raju Memorial sculpture on Monday, Jan 24, 2022, expressing solidarity with the student protesters of the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology in Sylhet. The leftist student groups brought an open letter to SUST Vice-Chancellor Farid Uddin Ahmed urging him to resign. Photo: Kazi Salahuddin Razu

A pedestrian overpass in front of Mugda Hospital is used by people of all ages. Bamboos replacing a broken step in the stairs put children trying to get off the bridge in trouble. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Bamboos have replaced a broken step in a pedestrian overpass and an elderly woman is struggling to move past it in front of Muga Hospital. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

The government enforced health rules for people venturing outdoors with the COVID-19 cases surging in the country, yet many choose to cross a Kamalapur pedestrian overpass without wearing masks on Sunday, Jan 23, 2022. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Dhaka North City Corporation removes illegal establishments at Lautala Canal in Mohammadpur’s Bosila on Sunday, Jan 23, 2022.

Dhaka North City Mayor Atiqul Islam watches the DNCC’s drive to remove illegal establishments at Lautala Canal in Mohammadpur’s Bosila on Sunday, Jan 23, 2022.

Students from Dhaka University form a human chain in front of the Raju Memorial Sculpture in solidarity with a call for the resignation of Sylhet’s Shahjalal Universiy of Science and Technology Vice Chancellor Farid Uddin Ahmed on Sunday, Jan 23, 2022.

Jatrabari’s Kutubkhali area is hit by a gas outage at a certain time every day for many days. Many people there are forced to cook using firewood. Photo taken on Sunday, Jan 23, 2022.

People hold a human-chain demonstration in front of the National Press Club on Sunday, Jan 23, 2022 to demand permanent employment of paid peer volunteers at Directorate General of Family Planning.

Students stage a human-chain protest in front of the National Press Club on Sunday, Jan 23, 2022 to demand that authorities allow the ongoing National University examinations to conclude.