Januay 11, 2020

Published: 11 Jan 2020 16:01 BdST Updated: 11 Jan 2020 16:01 BdST

News in photos: Januay 11

  • A boat carrying empty LPG cylinders heads towards Diabari in Dhaka’s Mirpur from Savar crossing the Tugar River on Saturday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

  • A boat carrying empty LPG cylinders heads towards Diabari in Dhaka’s Mirpur from Savar crossing the Tugar River on Saturday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

  • A boat carrying empty LPG cylinders heads towards Diabari in Dhaka’s Mirpur from Savar crossing the Tugar River on Saturday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

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Devotees offered Jumma prayers keeping some distance from each other at Kamalapur Railway Mosque in Dhaka on Friday amid the coronavirus outbreak. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Places of worship in Dhaka amid virus shutdown

When on duty labourers always wear masks to protect themselves from the coal dust, not as a preventive measure against coronavirus. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Labourers unloading coal

Gulshan-1 is missing the crowded intersection traffic signal. Photo: Saad Abdullah

A deserted Dhaka

Some people distributing food among the poor people in Dhaka's Kamalapur on Thursday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Food for the jobless

Law enforcers urging people to stay at home in the capital’s Khilgaon neighbourhood on Friday amid the coronavirus outbreak. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

03 April, 2020

Police in Dhaka's Jatrabari chasing away people who stepped out of their home for no urgent needs on Thursday despite the government advice to stay at home to stem the coronavirus outbreak. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

02 April, 2020

PPE production in Bangladesh

Slum residents sit on near Hatirjheel road in the hope that someone will show up with some food. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Waiting for food

With the river transport service suspended across Bangladesh, passenger launches are anchored on the banks of the Buriganga River in Dhaka. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

The great empty in densely populated Dhaka amid coronavirus pandemic

Private transport and rickshaws operate on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway amid the general holiday and public transport shutdown to halt the spread of coronavirus. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Virus shutdown spells travel trouble

A man hands over the keys to a ride-sharing motorcycle to a police officer under the Jatrabari flyover in Dhaka. The service has helped many city-dwellers reached their destinations in cases of emergency as the city remains under a virtual lockdown amid a coronavirus outbreak. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

April 01, 2020

A family of low-income people watching TV at Beribandh in Dhaka's Lalbagh on Tuesday during a shutdown to stem the coronavirus outbreak. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

The days of doing nothing

Vendors wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) selling different protective items like gloves, face masks and hand sanitisers on a footpath near Old Dhaka's Mitford Hospital amid a coronavirus outbreak. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

March 31, 2020

Disinfection to fight virus

Small passenger carriers are parked beside a street in Dhaka during a shutdown over the novel coronavirus outbreak. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

March 30, 2020

Kurmitola General Hospital in Dhaka has cancelled dialysis of kidney patients as the hospital has been taken over for coronavirus treatment. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Kidney patients in limbo at Kurmitola

Anguished residents of Dhaka's Karail slum wait for relief on the side of a road in Banani-11. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

March 29, 2020

Residents of Tejgaon in Dhaka demonstrated on Saturday against the construction of a hospital by Akij Group for coronavirus patients.

COVID-19 hospital vandalised

People enjoying a rooftop game of football in Dhaka’s Mohakhali as going out of home is restricted due to the coronavirus. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Virus halts public life in Dhaka

Streets are deserted, stores are shut in Dhaka due to the restrictions announced by the government to stem coronavirus spread. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

March 28, 2020

A pharmacy in Dhaka's Gulshan has drawn boxes to ensure social distancing of customers amid a coronavirus outbreak. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

March 27, 2020

An empty Mayor Hanif Flyover is pictured on the first day of a 10-day general holiday announced by the government to stem coronavirus spread in Bangladesh. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Public life stops amid coronavirus shutdown

CORONAVIRUS ALERT: A drugstore in Dhaka’s Shahbagh advises people to maintain a safe distance while waiting to buy medicines. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

March 26, 2020

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was released from BSMMU on Wednesday after 25 months behind bars. The government suspended her prison term for six months conditionally on ‘humanitarian grounds’ amid a surge in coronavirus cases. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Release of Khaleda Zia

People rush to leave Dhaka through Babubazar Bridge on Wednesday as panic grew ahead of a national lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

March 25, 2020

A view of pillars of the under-construction Dhaka Elevated Expressway in Khilkhet. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

March 24, 2020

Dhaka North City Corporation has made arrangements for the pedestrians to wash their hands at 25 spots amid a coronavirus outbreak. But some of these had no water and soap and the basins were dirty on Monday, a week after the launch of the service. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

March 23, 2020

Farmers grazing cattle on a swathe of land at Tanguar Haor backswamp in Sunamganj.Photo: Touhid Parvez Biplob

March 22, 2020

A huge crowd at Health Minister Zahid Malik’s media briefing drew flak on Saturday as the government tries to contain the coronavirus outbreak by limiting gatherings and through advice of social distancing.

March 21, 2020

Volunteers of Bidyananda Foundation spray Isopropyl alcohol to disinfect different crowded places in Dhaka. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Disinfection campaign by Bidyananda

A Shimul or red-silk cotton tree carrying multiple large honeycombs in Bogura’s Sariakandi Upazila. Photo: Ali Ashraf Bhuiyan

March 20, 2020

Farmers cleaning fresh harvests of potatoes in Bogura’s Kahaloo Upazila. Bogura is one of the top potato-producing districts in Bangladesh. A total of 55,454 hectares of land have been used this year for potato cultivation in the district. Photo: Ali Ashraf Bhuiyan

March 19, 2020

Authorities at Dhaka’s Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital launch one-stop services designating a separate counter for treatment of flu patients with symptoms like cough and fever, which are similar to those of COVID-19, amid a global coronavirus outbreak. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

March 18, 2020

President Md Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid respects to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing wreaths on his grave at Tungipara in Gopalganj on his birth centenary Tuesday.

Gallery: Mujib Barsha celebrations begin

A mural has been built at the United Islamia High School premises to mark the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Madaripur drips with memories of Bangabandhu

Vice-Chancellor Md Akhtaruzzaman inaugurates celebrations of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's birth centenary by releasing 100 balloons at the Dhaka University's Smriti Chironton premises on Tuesday.

March 17, 2020

Red peppers are being dried on the banks of the Jamuna River in Bogura's Sariakandi. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

March 16, 2020

A view of the Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital in Dhaka that has launched one-stop services for flu patients amid a global coronavirus outbreak. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Instant treatment for flu

Farmers carrying fresh harvests from a potato field in Munshiganj's Sreepur Upazila. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

March 15, 2020

Army personnel were deployed at Ashkona Hajj Camp near Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Saturday after more than 100 returnees from Italy were quarantined there.

Returnees from Italy quarantined

Polythene bags containing evidence in cases, which have been filed since 2014 over unnatural deaths of people who died after being run over by a train, are seen hanging from trees outside the morgue of Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

March 14, 2020

A woman bathing a child under the open sky next to the burnt down Jhilpar slum . Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Living on street after fire

A green build Malkoha or Bon Kokil flying at Satchhari National Park in Habiganj's Chunarughat. Tawhid Parvez Biplob

March 13, 2020

A turtle sunbathing on a sunken boat in a pond in Munshiganj’s Sreenagar Upazila. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

March 12, 2020

An overpass of the Dhaka-Mawa expressway in Munshiganj’s Sirajdikhan. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Bangladesh’s first expressway

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to inaugurate Bangladesh’s first six-lane Dhaka-Mawa-Bhanga expressway on Thursday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

March 11, 2020

Increased demand created a shortage of masks and sanitisers, prompting traders to put up signboards on drugstores in Dhaka’s Gulshan areas. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

March 10, 2020

Candidates of the Chattogram City Corporation elections are holding up their allocated symbols on Monday. Photo: Suman Babu

March 09, 2020

Bashonti Nibas, a hotel for women by voluntary organisation Bidyanondo, is charging student boarders Tk 71, job-seekers Tk 299 and jobholders Tk 880 fuor two days. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Housing for women at Tk 71

Members of the national committee to implement programmes celebrating Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's birth centenary met for the fifth time at the Inernational Mother Language Institute in Dhaka on Sunday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

March 08, 2020