11 November, 2021

Shafat Ahmed, the son of an Apan Jewellers co-owner, and his friend Shadman Sakif leave Dhaka’s Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-7 on Thursday, Nov 11, 2021, after being acquitted in a case over the alleged rape of two university students at the Raintree hotel in Dhaka’s Banani. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Shafat Ahmed, the son of an Apan Jewellers co-owner, and his friend Shadman Sakif leave Dhaka’s Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-7 on Thursday, Nov 11, 2021, after being acquitted in a case over the alleged rape of two university students at the Raintree hotel in Dhaka’s Banani. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Shafat Ahmed, the son of an Apan Jewellers co-owner, leaves Dhaka’s Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-7 on Thursday, Nov 11, 2021, after being acquitted in a case over the alleged rape of two university students at the Raintree hotel in Dhaka’s Banani. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Shafat Ahmed, the son of an Apan Jewellers co-owner, and his friend Shadman Sakif are brought to the Dhaka’s Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-7 on Thursday, Nov 11, 2021, to hear the verdict in a case over the alleged rape of two university students at the Raintree hotel in Dhaka’s Banani. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Shafat Ahmed, the son of an Apan Jewellers co-owner, and his friend Shadman Sakif are brought to the Dhaka’s Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-7 on Thursday, Nov 11, 2021, to hear the verdict in a case over the alleged rape of two university students at the Raintree hotel in Dhaka’s Banani. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Executive Magistrate Shakila Binte Matin leads a BRTA mobile court drive at Ramna in Dhaka to stop transport companies from charging extra fares on Thursday, Nov 11, 2021. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

An official puts a sticker marking a CNG-run bus during a BRTA mobile court drive at Ramna in Dhaka to stop transport companies from charging extra fares on Thursday, Nov 11, 2021. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

An official puts a sticker marking a diesel-run bus during a BRTA mobile court drive at Ramna in Dhaka to stop transport companies from charging extra fares on Thursday, Nov 11, 2021. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Executive Magistrate Shakila Binte Matin checks a chart of bus fare during a BRTA drive at Ramna in Dhaka on Thursday, Nov 11, 2021. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Passengers accuse bus operators of charging extra fares during a BRTA mobile court drive at Ramna in Dhaka on Thursday, Nov 11, 2021. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Policemen stop a bus during a BRTA mobile court drive to stop transport companies from charging extra fares at Ramna in Dhaka on Thursday, Nov 11, 2021. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Two Asian golden jackals are spotted in a bush in Gazipur’s Kaliakoir. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Two Asian golden jackals are spotted in a bush in Gazipur’s Kaliakoir. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Asia Khatun breaks bricks in Dhaka’s Shyampur as the elderly widow with no child found no other job to buy food and pay rent. Photo: Kazi Salahuddin Razu

Construction labourer Hajera Khatun has been breaking bricks in Dhaka’s Shyampur for about four years. She struggles to run her family of four with the meagre income of Tk 200 daily -- Tk 1 per brick. Photo: Kazi Salahuddin Razu

Liquid chemical waste from several factories at Munshikhla flows into a place next to the Dhaka-Narayanganj Highway. Photo: Kazi Salahuddin Razu