Students of Dhaka University’s anthropology department hold a protest rally at the campus premises on Thursday, Jan 16, 2025, to demand justice for attacks on 'Adivasi' people in the capital. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin
Students of Dhaka University’s anthropology department hold a protest rally at the campus premises on Thursday, Jan 16, 2025, to demand justice for attacks on 'Adivasi' people in the capital. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin
Lutfozzaman Babar, the former state minister of home affairs under the BNP-Jamaat alliance government, is released from Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj on Thursday, Jan 16, 2024 after his acquittals in the cases against him. He waved to his supporters from an open-top vehicle following his release.
Police use water cannons to disperse a procession heading from the Ministry of Home Affairs towards the High Court on Thursday, Jan 16, 2025 to protest an attack on a group of ethnic minority students in front of the National Curriculum and Textbook Board Building and to demand justice for their attackers. Photo: Razequzzaman Jewel
A bevy of otters can be seen next to a canal in the jungle in the Kokilmoni area of the Sundarbans Sharankhola Range. This particular species is known as the Asian clawed otter, but goes by a variety of local names. These animals usually roam shallow freshwater rivers, coastal areas, and small canals in the forest. In Bangladesh, they are most commonly found in the Sundarbans. Photo: Samir Mallik
সুন্দরবনের শরণখোলা রেঞ্জের কোকিলমনি এলাকার জঙ্গলের খালের পাড়ে একটি উদবিড়াল। উদবিড়ালের এ প্রজাতির ইংরেজি নাম Asian clawed Otter, বাংলাদেশে এ স্তন্যপায়ী প্রাণীটি ভোঁদড়, ধাইড়া, ধেড়ে, ছোট উদ, উদবিলাই নামেও পরিচিত। সাধারণত অগভীর স্বাদুপানির নদী, উপকূলীয় অঞ্চল এবং বনের ছোট ছোট খালের পানিতে বিচরণ করে উদবিড়াল। বাংলাদেশে এখন সুন্দরবনেই এদের বেশি দেখা যায়। ছবি: সমির মল্লিক
Members of Students for Sovereignty attacked Agitated Adivasi Students on Wednesday, Jan 15, 2025, afternoon as they protested the removal of images featuring the word “adivasi” from textbooks by attempting to lay siege to the NCTB building in Motijheel. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi
Members of Students for Sovereignty attacked Agitated Adivasi Students on Wednesday, Jan 15, 2025, afternoon as they protested the removal of images featuring the word “adivasi” from textbooks by attempting to lay siege to the NCTB building in Motijheel. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi
Students from ethnic minority groups gathered at the foot of the Raju Memorial Sculpture at Dhaka University on Wednesday, Jan 15, 2025, holding banners to protest the removal of images featuring the word “adivasi” – a collective term for a number of ethnic minority groups in Bangladesh – from textbooks. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi
Tide waves have washed away the soil from the roots of trees near the sea at the southern end of the Katka sanctuary in the Sundarbans. As a result, some part of the forest is engulfed by the sea every year. The largest mangrove forest in the world has been facing environmental risks, including raised sea level and salination caused by climate change. Photo: Muhammad Mostafigur Rahman
Tide waves have washed away the soil from the roots of trees near the sea at the southern end of the Katka sanctuary in the Sundarbans. As a result, some part of the forest is engulfed by the sea every year. The largest mangrove forest in the world has been facing environmental risks, including raised sea level and salination caused by climate change. Photo: Muhammad Mostafigur Rahman
Tide waves have washed away the soil from the roots of trees near the sea at the southern end of the Katka sanctuary in the Sundarbans. As a result, some part of the forest is engulfed by the sea every year. The largest mangrove forest in the world has been facing environmental risks, including raised sea level and salination caused by climate change. Photo: Muhammad Mostafigur Rahman
The Democratic Students' Alliance holds a protest march towards the chief advisor’s office on Tuesday, Jan 14, 2025, with a 5-point demand.
A "Shadabuk Machhranga" or white-throated kingfisher sits on the branch of a tree to seek prey in the Katka sanctuary in the Sundarbans. Twelve species of kingfisher can be found in Bangladesh. Most of them are found in the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world. Photo: Muhammad Mostafigur Rahman
A sand-laden bulkhead gets stranded on a submerged char in the Balu River at Bauler Bazar area in Dhaka’s Demra. The photo was taken at 8:00am on Friday, Jan 10, 2025. Photo: Abdullah al Momin
The Democratic Students' Alliance marches to the chief advisor’s office on Tuesday, Jan 14, 2025, with a 5-point demand but is stopped by police in front of the Hotel Intercontinental.
A woman carrying a child walks along the dusty road amidst the ongoing construction of the Dhaka-Ashulia Elevated Expressway. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi
The ongoing work of the Dhaka-Ashulia Elevated Expressway causes severe traffic on the roads in Ashulia’s Jirabo. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi
Agitated Adivasi Students were attacked on Wednesday, Jan 15, 2025, afternoon while attempting to lay siege to the NCTB building in Motijheel to protest the removal of images featuring the word “adivasi” from textbooks. Two photographers rescued an injured student and took her to safety during the incident. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi
The Agitated Adivasi Students organised a rally at the foot of the Raju Memorial Sculpture at Dhaka University on Wednesday, Jan 15, 2025, protesting the removal of images featuring the word “adivasi” – a collective term for a number of ethnic minority groups in Bangladesh – from textbooks. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi
Students of Dhaka University’s anthropology department hold a protest rally at the campus premises on Thursday, Jan 16, 2025, to demand justice for attacks on 'Adivasi' people in the capital. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin
