September 12, 2018

Published: 2018-09-12 19:35:27.0 BdST Updated: 2018-09-12 22:05:03.0 BdST

News in photos: September 12

  • After remaining closed for four years due to renovation works, former Sheraton and Ruposhi Bangla hotel will reopen as the InterContinental Hotel Dhaka on Thursday.

  • After remaining closed for four years due to renovation works, former Sheraton and Ruposhi Bangla hotel will reopen as the InterContinental Hotel Dhaka on Thursday.

  • A boat on the Kaliganga river in Dhaka’s Keraniganj is loaded with jute sticks that were once used as fuel and fencing material. Now particle board is made of jute sticks and its ashes are exported. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

  • A boat on the Kaliganga river in Dhaka’s Keraniganj is loaded with jute sticks that were once used as fuel and fencing material. Now particle board is made of jute sticks and its ashes are exported. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

  • A boat on the Kaliganga river in Dhaka’s Keraniganj is loaded with jute sticks that were once used as fuel and fencing material. Now particle board is made of jute sticks and its ashes are exported. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

  • A boat on the Kaliganga river in Dhaka’s Keraniganj is loaded with jute sticks that were once used as fuel and fencing material. Now particle board is made of jute sticks and its ashes are exported. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

  • ACC lawyer Mosharraf Hossain Kajol speaks to the media about the Zia Charitable Trust graft case outside the jailhouse on Nazimuddin Road in Old Dhaka on Wednesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

  • ACC lawyer Mosharraf Hossain Kajol speaks to the media about the Zia Charitable Trust graft case outside the jailhouse on Nazimuddin Road in Old Dhaka on Wednesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

  • Police beef up security outside the Old Dhaka jail on Nazimuddin Road during a court hearing on the Zia Charitable Trust graft case on Wednesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

  • Police beef up security outside the Old Dhaka jail on Nazimuddin Road during a court hearing on the Zia Charitable Trust graft case on Wednesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

  • Police beef up security outside the Old Dhaka jail on Nazimuddin Road during a court hearing on the Zia Charitable Trust graft case on Wednesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

  • BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's lawyer Sanaullah Mia talks to journalists about the Zia Charitable Trust graft case outside jailhouse on Nazimuddin Road in Old Dhaka on Wednesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

  • BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's lawyer Sanaullah Mia talks to journalists about the Zia Charitable Trust graft case outside jailhouse on Nazimuddin Road in Old Dhaka on Wednesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

  • BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's lawyer Sanaullah Mia talks to journalists about the Zia Charitable Trust graft case outside jailhouse on Nazimuddin Road in Old Dhaka on Wednesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

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BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir collects a party nomination form on behalf of party chief Khaleda Zia for the Feni-1 seat at the party’s headquarters in Dhaka’s Naya Paltan on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

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November 10 , 2018

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Police break up the protesters who rallied for an increase in the age limit for government job applications to 35 in Dhaka on Saturday.

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No buses left from Sayedabad Bus Terminal in Dhaka on Sunday during a nationwide transport strike. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

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