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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September 18, 2018

Dhaka residents ride a rickshaw through the Kashful flower fields at Dhaka’s Aftabnagar. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

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Police recovered a huge haul of marijuana from illegal constructions on a piece of land of Bangladesh Railway at Chattogram’s CRB area on Saturday. Photo: Suman Babu

September 15, 2018

Students taking Dhaka University’s 'Ga' unit admission test for the Faculty of Business Studies.

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BNP leaders and activists stage a symbolic hunger strike demanding the release of Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Dhaka on Wednesday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

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Hilsa bonanza

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