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Published: 22 Aug 2015 19:08 BdST Updated: 22 Aug 2015 19:08 BdST

 

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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina addressing the 2017-18 National Film Awards ceremony at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka on Sunday. Photo: Saiful Islam Kallol

National Film Awards 2017-18

Transparency International, Bangladesh or TIB organised an anti-corruption human chain on Manik Miah Avenue in Dhaka on the eve of the International Anti-Corruption Day on Sunday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

December 08, 2019

Supporters of two factions of the Awami League scuffled and hurled plastic chairs at each other during the party’s Chattogram district north unit's council in Laldighi area on Saturday. Photo: Suman Babu

AL’s Ctg north unit council

A worker carries out repair work at the Martyred Intellectuals' Memorial at Dhaka’s Rayer Bazar ahead of the Martyred Intellectuals Day. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

December 07, 2019

Street food vendors selling Chitai Pitha with different types of Bharta in Dhaka's Farmgate. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Chitai Pitha with Bharta

Students of Stamford University organised a human-chain demonstration outside their Siddheswari campus in Dhaka on Friday against the alleged murder of their peer Rubaiyat Sharmin Rumpa.

December 06, 2019

Children are also buying TCB onion for their families as the corporation allows only one kg per customer. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Crowds for TCB onion

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam addressing a news conference at the Supreme Court Bar Association Auditorium after the pro-BNP lawyers stirred up chaos in the courtroom during the hearing of Khaleda Zia's bail appeal in a graft case on Thursday.

December 05, 2019

The students of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology announcing a plan to return to classes at a news briefing in Dhaka, after the authorities met their demands, including the expulsion of 26 students over the murder of their peer Abrar Fahad. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

December 04, 2019

Rakibul Hasan Regan, the militant sentenced to death for the 2016 Holey Artisan attack, was produced in Dhaka's anti-terrorism tribunal on Tuesday for the hearing of a case over the deadly raid on a house in Kalyanpur around a month after the cafe attack.

December 03, 2019

Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun addresses an event at Dhaka's IRF auditorium on Monday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

December 02, 2019

Jabale Nur Paribahan bus driver Jubayer Sumon crying as police escorting him from the court to jail in Dhaka on Sunday after he was handed life imprisonment for the deaths of two college students in a road crash that triggered widespread protests. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Verdict on Jabale Nur Bus killing students

A worker printing calendars in the capital’s Fakirapool on Sunday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

The New Year calendars

A procession was taken out on the Dhaka University campus on Sunday to celebrate the start of the month of victory in the War of Independence from Pakistan.

December 01, 2019

Passengers suffer at Dhaka's Sadarghat as an indefinite strike called by water transport workers cuts off river communication between the southern districts and the rest of the country.

November 30, 2019

Police detain BNP leader ABM Mosharraf Hossain after an event at the National Press Club in Dhaka on Friday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

November 29, 2019

Moazzem Hossain, former OC of Sonagazi Police Station in Feni, arriving at the Cyber Tribunal in Dhaka on Thursday ahead of the verdict in a digital security case. The tribunal sentenced him to eight years in jail for unlawfully releasing a video of a statement from madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi on social media before her death in an arson attack.

November 28, 2019

Police escorting Rakibul Hasan Regan, an operative of neo-JMB wearing a prayer cap emblazoned with the Islamic State’s insignia, after a Dhaka tribunal announced the verdict on Holey Artisan Bakery attack case on Wednesday.

Gulshan attack verdict

The launch terminal at Sadarghat was relatively empty after the Jatiya Sramik Oikya Parishad and Jatiya Sramik League called an impromptu strike on Wednesday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

November 27, 2019

Banani Police OC Salahuddin was hit by a grenade when he tried to enter into the restaurant. He succumbed to the splinter wounds in nearby United Hospital.

Looking back on Holey Artisan terror attack

A woman, who brought a baby with her, secures one kilogram onion after a long wait. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

TCB trucks sell imported onion

Activists of pro-BNP Jatiyatabadi Muktijuddha Dal clashed with police in front of the Supreme Court on Tuesday after blocking the road to demand the release of jailed BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

November 26, 2019

Members of 18 BFDC-based film associations formed a human chain in front of the state-run corporation at the capital's Tejgaon on Monday demanding implementation of new road transport law and protesting against road safety campaigner Ilias Kanchan's humiliation by the transport workers. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

November 25, 2019

A woman on an autorickshaw covers the nose of a child to save it from dust on a street at Postogola in Dhaka. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Dusty Dhaka

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina speaks ahead of a presentation on the government's plans to implement Vision 2041 programme aimed at transforming Bangladesh into a developed country within the next two decades.

November 24, 2019

Jubo League names Sheikh Fazle Shams Parash, the son of the organisation's founder Sheikh Fazlul Haq Mani, as its new chairman during the council session at Dhaka's Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh on Saturday.

Jubo League's 7th National Congress

The bodies of nine people who died after a collision between a bus and a microbus in Munshiganj's Sreenagar Upazila, were buried after a namaz-e-janaza in the district's Louhajang Upazila on Saturday.

November 23, 2019

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurating the first day-night Test between India and Bangladesh by ringing a bell at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Friday. Photo: PID

Hasina in Kolkata to watch Test

Onlookers gather after a bus-microbus collision on the Dhaka-Mawa Highway in Munshiganj's Srinagar Upazila on Friday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Fatal bus-microbus collision

The Matsya Bhaban intersection in Dhaka is bedecked with posters, banners and festoons containing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s photos on Friday as she is scheduled to inaugurate Jubo League’s national congress on Saturday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

November 22, 2019

A child fell asleep while waiting for a bus at Gabtoli bus terminal in Dhaka on Thursday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Knock-on effects of cancelled strike

A shop owner breaks down in tears after his valuables were destroyed by a fire that erupted at the capital's New Rajdhani Super Market on Wednesday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

November 21, 2019

Some commuters hired pickup vans to reach their destinations as public transports were sparse on the roads on Wednesday due to the strike called by transport workers demanding revision of the road transport law. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Transport strike rages on

A man sleeps inside a mosquito net on a footbridge used by school children to cross the road in Dhaka’s Mirpur-13. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

November 20, 2019

Customers thronged shops at Karwan Bazar in Dhaka to buy salt on Tuesday following rumours of a price hike.

November 19, 2019

A policeman checks the registration documents of a vehicle in Dhaka’s Manik Miah Avenue on Monday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

New traffic law kicks in

Shahadat Hossain Selim, former joint secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, announces a new committee, led by Abdul Karim Abbasi, at a news conference in Dhaka on Monday. Abbasi and Selim were dropped from the central committee formed by LDP President Oli Ahmad, a retired colonel. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

November 18, 2019

Fire service personnel conducting a rescue drive after a gas pipeline exploded on the ground floor of a building in Patharghata Brick Field Road in Chattogram on Sunday, leaving at least seven people dead. Photo: Suman Babu

Gas line explosion in Chattogram

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal speaks at the launch of ‘National Strategy for Prevention of Money Laundering and Combating Financing of Terrorism 2019- 2021’ at the InterContinental hotel in Dhaka on Sunday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

November 17, 2019

Najma Begum and her son Nafiz, who were injured and lost Najma’s daughter Sohamoni in a train accident in Brahmanbaria’s Kasba Upazila on Nov 12, are being treated at the Pangu Hospital in Dhaka where Najma’s husband, injured in the same accident, has also been admitted. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

People injured in B’baria train crash

Children pick up the rotten onions discarded by traders from the Karnaphuli River in Chattogram. Photo: Suman Babu

November 16, 2019

Mohammad Iftekhar Mahmud, a man with visual impairment, and Salma Mahbub, a woman with walking disabilities, came to the Officers' Club in Dhaka on Friday to pay taxes for their organisation Bangladeshi Systems Change Advocacy Network or B-SCAN at the Income Tax Fair. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Income Tax Fair on holiday

Sheepa Hafiza, the executive director at the legal aid and human rights organisation Ain O Salish Kendra or ASK, speaking at a press conference at their office in Dhaka's Lalmatia on Friday after a Rajuk mobile court ordered them to move the office within two months on Thursday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

November 15, 2019

A mobile court of the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection fined a trader during a drive on the wholesale onion market in Dhaka's Mirpur-1 on Friday amid soaring prices. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Mobile court amid soaring onion prices

Plastic waste from different parts of the capital are set out to dry along the slopes of the embankments at Old Dhaka's Lalbagh area. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Plastic shards by the Buriganga

Dhaka’s rail links to the northern and southern regions are suspended after a Rangpur Express train from the capital went off the tracks near the Ullapara Railway Station in Sirajganj on Thursday.

November 14, 2019

Chattogram Metropolitan Police have arrested two staff members of the Election Commission's offices on charges of issuing counterfeit NIDs to Rohingya refugees.

November 13, 2019

Rival groups of Jubo League's Chattogram Metropolitan unit clashed during an event marking the organisation's 47th anniversary at Laldighi Maidan in the port city on Tuesday. Photo: Suman Babu

November 12, 2019

Grameenphone Chief Executive Officer Michael Foley, Chief Marketing Officer Yasir Azman and Head of Regulatory Affairs Hossain Sadat speak to reporters at a hotel in Dhaka on Monday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

November 11, 2019

Members of a family returning to home from a shelter centre at the Khulna’s Dacope Upazila after a cyclone on Sunday. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Bulbul devastatation in Khulna