Januay 12, 2020

Published: 12 Jan 2020 18:01 BdST Updated: 12 Jan 2020 21:01 BdST

News in photos: Januay 12

  • The first phase of the 55th Biswa Ijtema ended with a final prayer for peace in life, afterlife and the welfare of the nation on Sunday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

  • Hundreds of thousands of Muslim devotees brave a cold spell to offer final prayers or Akheri Munajat on the banks of the Turag River in Gazipur's Tongi on Sunday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

  • The first phase of the 55th Biswa Ijtema ended with a final prayer for peace in life, afterlife and the welfare of the nation on Sunday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

  • Hundreds of thousands of Muslim devotees brave a cold spell to offer final prayers or Akheri Munajat on the banks of the Turag River in Gazipur's Tongi on Sunday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

  • Hundreds of thousands of Muslim devotees brave a cold spell to offer final prayers or Akheri Munajat on the banks of the Turag River in Gazipur's Tongi on Sunday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

  • The first phase of the 55th Biswa Ijtema ended with a final prayer for peace in life, afterlife and the welfare of the nation on Sunday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

  • Hundreds of thousands of Muslim devotees brave a cold spell to offer final prayers or Akheri Munajat on the banks of the Turag River in Gazipur's Tongi on Sunday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

  • Children warm themselves around a fire lit to lessen the chill of severe winter cold in the capital’s Tejgaon on Sunday. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

  • Women, one of them with a child in her lap, warm themselves around a fire lit amid severe winter cold in the capital’s Tejgaon on Sunday. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

  • Atiqul Islam, the Awami League candidate for Dhaka North City City Corporation mayor, campaigning at Uttara ahead of the elections.

  • Atiqul Islam, the Awami League candidate for Dhaka North City City Corporation mayor, campaigning at Uttara ahead of the elections.

  • Tabith Awal, the BNP candidate for Dhaka North City Corporation mayor, campaigning at Mirpur-1 ahead of the elections. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

  • Tabith Awal, the BNP candidate for Dhaka North City Corporation mayor, campaigning at Mirpur-1 ahead of the elections. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

  • Tabith Awal, the BNP candidate for Dhaka North City Corporation mayor, campaigning at Mirpur-1 ahead of the elections. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

  • A layer of fog covers the National Parliament Complex in Dhaka on Sunday amid a fourth spell of cold wave across Bangladesh. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

  • A layer of fog covers the National Parliament Complex in Dhaka on Sunday amid a fourth spell of cold wave across Bangladesh. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

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Police escorting Shamima Noor Papia, an expelled Jubo Mohila League leader accused of different wrongdoings, to jail from court in Dhaka on Monday.

February 24, 2020

Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, Awami League Advisory Council Member Tofail Ahmed, and President of Bangabandhu Sangskritik Jote Tarana Halim attend the discussion on the bestowing of ‘Bangabandhu’ title on Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the National Press Club in Dhaka on Sunday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

February 23, 2020

FBCCI President Sheikh Fazle Fahim addressing a media briefing at the apex trade organisation's auditorium on the effects of the novel coronavirus on trade in Bangladesh on Saturday.

February 22, 2020

The altar of the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka is decorated with flowers as the nation pays tribute of respect on the Language Movement Day on Friday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Tribute to Language Movement heroes

Huge crowds of people streamed to the Amar Ekushey Book Fair in Dhaka on Friday after paying tributes to the Language Movement martyrs at the Central Shaheed Minar.

February 21, 2020

Dhanmondi road no. 1 is named after language movement hero Golam Mowla. A marble nameplate is on display at the road’s entrance. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Nameplates for Movement heroes in tatters

Dried puffer fish is a favourite daily dish among the people of Rangpur and Shariatpur. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Drying puffer fish

Sheikh Hasina poses for photographs with the winners of this year's Ekushey Padak, the second highest civilian award in Bangladesh, at Osmani Memorial Auditorium in Dhaka on Thursday. Photo: Saiful Islam Kallol

February 20, 2020

A mango tree is in full bloom at the beginning of spring at the State Guest House Meghna in Dhaka. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

February 19, 2020

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen and Health Minister Zahid Maleque handed medical logistics to Chinese Ambassador Li Jiming in Dhaka on Tuesday as a goodwill gesture from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for the country's health workers who are fighting a deadly coronavirus outbreak. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

February 18, 2020

Book lovers crowding a stall at the Ekushey Book Fair at the capital's Suhrawardy Udyan on Monday.

February 17, 2020

Asad Gate, a structure raised in remembrance of Amanullah Mohammad Asaduzzaman who was killed during the 1969 mass uprising, is covered with a makeshift gate advertising a political programme. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

February 16, 2020

Many relatives showed photos of the evacuees from Wuhan, the Chinese city at the heart of a deadly coronavirus outbreak, while waiting for their release from the Ashkona Hajj Camp, a facility used for close surveillance of the returnees in isolation for two weeks.

February 15, 2020

The games room in Dhaka University's Bijoy Ekattor Hall has transformed into a common living space for students. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

February 14, 2020

A variety of flowers enliven the Agargaon wholesale market in Dhaka ahead of Pahela Falgun and Valentine’s Day. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

February 13, 2020

A bird’s-eye view of the Poradaha Fish Fair. Photo: Touhid Parvez Biplob

Poradaha Fish Fair

State Minister for Youth and Sports Zahid Ahsan Russell garlanding Akbar Ali, the under-19 cricket team captain and hero of Bangladesh’s victory in the final of the World Cup against India, at the Dhaka airport on Wednesday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

February 12, 2020

Students of Dhaka University’s History Department form a human chain on Tuesday to express solidarity with a protest by history students at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University demanding the UGC’s approval for their department. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

February 11, 2020

A timeline of significant world events are on display in an exhibition on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman supervised by CRI, the Awami League’s research wing, at the Dhaka Art Summit. The exhibition boasts a huge collection of Bangabandhu's photographs. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Dhaka Art Summit

The BNP's student affiliate organisation Chhatra Dal staging a procession for the release of party Chairperson Khaleda Zia on the Dhaka University campus on Monday.

February 10, 2020

At the volunteer organisation Bidyanondo, exercise books, bags, raincoats and small packets for students are made from election campaign materials. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Turning campaign objects to education materials

Book-lovers visit the stall of bdnews24 publishing limited or bpl at the Suhrawardy Udyan during the Amar Ekushey Book Fair on Sunday.

February 09, 2020

A fire at the T&T Slum in Dhaka’s Banani burnt down hundreds of shanties before 22 units of the Fire Service and Civil Defence brought the blaze under control early in the morning on Saturday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Banani slum burnt

A seized truck lying in the middle of a walkway in Dhaka's Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmad Avenue. Its presence on the footpath has been inconveniencing passersby for a while. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

February 08, 2020

Children, clad in colourful attires, arrive at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair accompanied by their parents during children's hour on Friday morning. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

First children's hour at book fair

Residents of Savar's Bhakurta say they have been crafting jewellery for the past 150 years. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Bhakurta, a village of jewellers

The BASIS SoftExpo 2020 began at the International Convention City Bashundhara in Dhaka on Friday. The slogan of the 16th edition of the exhibition is 'Transforming Life Through Innovation'.

February 07, 2020

Visitors overcrowded the Dhaka International Trade Fair 2020 on its closing day on Thursday.

February 06, 2020

The Amar Ekushey Book Fair has provided 'Boishakhi', a little girl who sells flower at the Suhrawardy Udyan, with the opportunity to see illustrated books.

Book fair awaits visitors

Two Blossom-headed Parakeets gliding near a tree branch at Tambulbunia forest in Sundarbans’ Chandpai range. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

February 05, 2020

Guests stand in silence to honour the memory of Sir Fazle Hasan Abed at the beginning of a commemoration for the BRAC founder in Dhaka on Tuesday.

FH Abed remembered

Members of several organisations, including the Dhaka Union of journalists, staged a human-chain demonstration in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka on Tuesday against the attacks on and harassment of journalists in the line of duty.

February 04, 2020

Students entering an exam centre to take the SSC test on Monday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

SSC exams begin

Customers buying protective masks at a store in the Bangladesh Medical Association building in Dhaka on Sunday amid the outbreak of a novel coronavirus in China. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Mask prices soar amid coronavirus outbreak

The use of face masks has increased in Bangladesh as a deadly coronavirus originating in China threatens to become a global pandemic. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

February 03, 2020

Ishraque Hossain, the BNP-endorsed mayoral candidate for Dhaka South City Corporation, joined party leaders and activists in front of the party’s central office in Naya Paltan to observe the first shutdown of the year protesting alleged ‘electoral fraud’ in Dhaka city polls. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

First shutdown of 2020

Dhaka had turned into a city of posters during the run-up to the Feb 1 polls. City corporation workers launched a drive on Sunday to make the city clean by removing those posters. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

February 02, 2020

Atiqul Islam, the Awami League-backed candidate seeking reelection as Dhaka North's mayor, cast his ballots at the Nawab Habibullah Model School and College centre in Uttara on Saturday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Dhaka north city polls

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda, a registered voter for Dhaka North, cast his vote at Uttara's IES School and College centre on Saturday.

February 01, 2020

Bangladeshis wareing protective masks getting off a bus at Tianhe International Airport in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Friday for evacuation from the epicentre of a deadly coronavirus outbreak.

Bangladeshis at Wuhan airport for evacuation

Officials distributing EVMs and other voting materials among the polling stations at the Motijheel T&T High School in Dhaka on Friday ahead of the elections to the city corporations in the capital.

Voting materials sent to stations

Police stopped motorbikes in Farmgate on Friday amid a ban on the two-wheelers on Friday due to Dhaka city polls. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Januay 31, 2020

BGB personnel patrolling the streets in Motijheel on Thursday ahead of the elections to the two city corporations in Dhaka. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Januay 30, 2020

Supporters of the Awami League's mayor candidate in the North Atiqul Islam campaigning in Moghbazar on Wednesday.

Vigorous campaign

A salt-water crocodile is viewed in Supoti canal under Chandpai Range of the Sundarbans. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Januay 29, 2020

A voter trying out EVMs during a demonstration organised by the Election Commission at Purana Paltan College on Tuesday ahead of the city polls. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

EVM exhibition

Atiqul Islam, the Awami League candidate for Dhaka North City Corporation mayor, shaking hands and exhanging greetings with BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir during a chance encounter at the Election Commission on Tuesday.

Januay 28, 2020

An official measuring the body temperature of a traveller upon arrival at Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Dhaka airport on coronavirus alert

Atiqul Islam, the Awami League-endorsed candidate for mayor of Dhaka North, campaigning in Dhaka's Uttara on Monday.

Januay 27, 2020

Supporters of Ishraque Hossain, the BNP-backed mayoral candidate for Dhaka South, clashed with the Awami League activists campaigning for two councillor candidates during an election rally in the capital's Gopibagh on Sunday.

Januay 26, 2020