April 14, 2018

Published: 14 Apr 2018 15:04 BdST Updated: 14 Apr 2018 15:04 BdST

News in photos: April 14

  • Channel i and Shurer Dhara welcome Bangla New Year 1425 by arranging musical event at the Bangabandhu International Convention Centre. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

  • A traditional dance is being performed at the Channel i and Shurer Dhara Pahela Boishakh event on Saturday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

  • Channel i and Shurer Dhara welcome Bangla New Year 1425 by arranging musical event at the Bangabandhu International Convention Centre. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

  • Channel i and Shurer Dhara welcome Bangla New Year 1425 by arranging musical event at the Bangabandhu International Convention Centre. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

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An excavator is used to remove refuse from the Kutubkhali Canal on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Clean-up drive on Kutubkhali Canal

Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam greeting Sheikh Hasina with flowers before the first meeting of her new council of ministers at the Prime Minister’s Office in Dhaka on Monday. Photo: Saiful Islam Kallol

January 21, 2019

Leader of the Opposition in Parliament and Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad departs for Singapore, where he is to receive medical treatment. He left his home in Baridhara at 11:30 am on Sunday for the airport. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

January 20, 2019

The Awami League organises a rally at the Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka on Saturday to celebrate its landslide victory in the Dec 30 parliamentary election.

Awami League’s election victory celebration

A farmer carries a ripe pumpkin on his head in the Arial Beel area. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

The pumpkins of Arial Beel

People walk to their destinations as vehicles remain stuck in tailbacks caused by traffic restrictions during the Awami League's election victory celebration at the Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka.

January 19, 2019

The pieces of plastic are set out along the slopes of the embankments. Waves of colourful plastic catches the eye from afar. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Shards by the Buriganga

Visitors flocking to the Dhaka International Trade Fair 2019 on the weekly holiday on Friday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

January 18, 2019

A rope is seen being used to bar commuters from breaking traffic rules at Dhaka's Bijoy Sarani intersection on Thursday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

January 17, 2019

The Namaz-e-Janaza of bdnews24.com’s Senior Editor Amanullah Kabir is being held at the National Press Club. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Adieu to Amanullah Kabir

Priota Farelin Iftekhar, who was crowned the first-ever Miss Culture Worldwide in Zimbabwe in December last year, speaking at a news conference in Dhaka on Wednesday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

January 16, 2019

The Namaz-e-Janaza of Abu Bakar Chowdhury, acting editor of Daily Manabkantho, was held at the National Press Club in Dhaka on Tuesday.

January 15, 2019

Workers of the Roads and Highways Department razing down an illegal structure during an eviction drive on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway at Shanir Akhra on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Eviction on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway

Factory workers of Bando ECO Apparels block road and vandalise vehicles at Savar’s Aminbazar after rumour spread that a city-owned garbage truck ran over and killed one of their co-workers on Monday.

January 14, 2019

Pedestrians have to cover their faces when walking amid the dust-filled air Postogola. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Dust blanket on Postogola

'Charcoals' - renewable solid fuel made from rice husk - is being loaded on to a truck bound for Cumilla. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Rice husk to fuel

Pedestrians at Dhaka's Purana Paltan use a gap in the road divider to jaywalk while a foot over-bridge remains seemingly empty on Sunday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

January 13, 2019

Road Transport Minister Obaidul Quader inspects a BRTA mobile court on Manik Mia Avenue in Dhaka on Saturday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

January 12, 2019

People thronged the Dhaka International Trade Fair 2019 at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar on Friday, the first weekly holiday after the inauguration. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

DITF starts pulling crowd

Rahim Mia selectively picks beans that are ripe for sale as a number of his produce are yet to become edible. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Winter beans

Sammilito Sangskritik Jote, the central platform of cultural organisations, organised a programme to commemorate Awami League leader Syed Ashraful Islam at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka on Friday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

January 11, 2019

A farmer checks a box for honey at a bee farm. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Bee farming at mustard fields

Stalls and pavilions at the Dhaka International Trade Fair 2019 are being prepared on Thursday, a day after inauguration. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

January 10, 2019

Police using water-cannons to disperse agitating garment workers from the Dhaka-Aricha Highway at Savar’s Karnapara.

January 09, 2019

Workers preparing the eye-catching stalls for the Dhaka International Trade Fair. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Trade fair preparations

After beginning her record fourth term as prime minister, Sheikh Hasina pays tribute to her father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing a wreath in front of his portrait at Dhanmondi's Bangabandhu Memorial Museum on Tuesday. Photo: PID

January 08, 2019

Garment workers set fire to a bus on Dhaka’s Airport Road on Monday during a demonstration to demand an increase in the minimum wage and to press for a series of other demands. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Airport Road blocked again

President Md Abdul Hamid administers oath to deputy ministers of the new cabinet during an inauguration ceremony at the Bangabhaban on Monday. Photo: ABM Aktaruzzaman / PID

January 07, 2019

Local youths put together a ‘wall of humanity’ at the entrance of Sobhanbagh Government Officers Quarter. Anyone can leave their spare garments on the wall to be picked up by the needy. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

January 06, 2019

A field of gerbera flowers in a variety of colours. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Gerbera flowers

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir visits the woman who was gang-raped on the election day, at a hospital in Noakhali on Saturday.

January 05, 2019

Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha Chief Editor Abul Kalam Azad, bdnews24.com Editor-in-Chief Toufique Imrose Khalidi, The Daily Janakantha Executive Editor Swadesh Roy and senior journalist Abed Khan attending the meeting of the Editors Guild, Bangladesh at the bdnews24.com offices in Dhaka on Friday.

Editors Guild forms committee

Abdul Mannan has set up his repair team in one of the 'Paharas'. He takes up to three days to finish repairing a boat. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Ghoramis: Repairers of boats

Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina and the other newly elected MPs of the party paying homage to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing wreath on his mural at the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum in Dhaka on Friday, a day after taking oath. Photo: PID

January 04, 2019

Cricketer Mashrafe Bin Mortaza has been the biggest sensation in the elections. The Awami League MP from Narail-2 seat wore a Mujib Coat when he came to parliament to be sworn in on Thursday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

MPs take oath

Artists and celebrities paint a wall at Banani during a campaign for a clean Dhaka on Thursday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

January 03, 2019

People cross the darkened waters of the Buriganga River by boat in the Babubazar area. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

The darkened waters of the Buriganga

Workers from Gazipur’s Doreen Garments protest the firing of more than 200 coworkers, in front of the BGMEA building in Dhaka on Wednesday.

January 2, 2019

The numbers

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Happy students show off the new textbooks they received on Tuesday, the first day of the new year. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Textbook festival

Agitated people set a bus on fire near Hajipara Petrol Pump following the deaths of two female garment workers in a road accident in Dhaka’s Malibagh area on Tuesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

January 1, 2019

Chinese Ambassador Zhang Zuo congratulates Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on the Awami League’s landslide win in the 11th national parliamentary election. Photo: Saiful Islam Kallol

Prime minister receives congratulations

Children playing as the sun sets at South Kattoli Rani Rashmoni Ghat pier in Chattogram on the New Year’s Eve, 2018. Photo: Sumon Babu

December 31, 2018

Dhaka-1 seat independent candidate Salma Islam breaks down in tears on Sunday afternoon during a press conference announcing that she was stepping aside from the race. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

December 30, 2018

Law enforcers are strengthening security ahead of the 11th national parliamentary election. Army personnel are searching vehicles on Dhaka’s Elephant Road on Saturday after setting up a checkpoint. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

December 29, 2018

Just a day left before the election and most offices have closed. The streets were nearly empty at Dhaka's Bangla Motor on Friday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

The election exodus

Fire breaks out at Zaman Tower in Purana Paltan on Friday, spreading from the office of the National Credit Rating Ltd located at the 8th storey of the 16-storey building. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

December 28, 2018

Discussants at a special event on the parliamentary elections co-organised on Thursday by bdnews24.com and Deutsche Welle on how they want to see Bangladesh.

December 27, 2018

Bangladesh ODI captain and Narail-2 Awami League candidate Mashrafe Bin Mortaza meets voters in his constituency ahead of the Dec 30 polls.

The campaign trail

Officials sorting election materials for polling stations at Chattogram Gymnasium on Wednesday, four days before the general election. Photo: Suman Babu

December 26, 2018