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People not maintaining even the minimal distance from each other as they wait in queues to buy daily necessities from a dealer of the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh at Dhaka’s Kamrangirchar. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Breaking the rules

09 April, 2020

All accesses to the Geneva Camp in Dhaka have been closed to stem the coronavirus infection amid the Bangladesh-wide lockdown due to the outbreak. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Life as usual in locked down Geneva Camp

A foreigner walking along the street in Dhaka's Shyamoli amid the nationwide lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

08 April, 2020

People gather to buy subsidised rice at Tk 10 per kg in Dhaka on Sunday, defying instructions to maintain a safe distance from each other to check coronavirus infection. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Rice at Tk 10 in times of coronavirus in Dhaka

Abdul Mazed, a key fugitive convict in the killing of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was sent to jail following his arrest on Tuesday.

07 April, 2020

RAB personnel quizzing people who have come out of home during a lockdown.

06 April, 2020

Police have set up a check-post at Gabtoli, one of the key accesses to Dhaka, to control movement of people to and from the city.

Dhaka sealed off

People are giving food to the dogs amid the government-enforced coronavirus shutdown. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Food for the dogs

05 April, 2020

A group of workers walk at Uttara on the Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway to reach Dhaka on Saturday as their readymade garment factories are reopening amid the nationwide lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

RMG workers walk to Dhaka

Ridehailing apps have stopped services as the public transport system is shut down amid a coronavirus outbreak, but motorcyclists are still sharing rides in exchange for fixed amounts of money from Mirpur-10 in Dhaka. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

04 April, 2020

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

F Minor, the first band of girls from ethnic minority groups, started its performance with “Nongor Tolo Tolo”, a Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra song that inspired the nation during the 1971 Liberation War. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Joy Bangla Concert

Women’s rights group Nari Pragati Sangha takes out a procession in Chattogram on Saturday to mark the Mar 8 International Women’s Day.

March 07, 2020

Revellers celebrate at Joy Bangla Concert organised by the Young Bangla, the Awami League’s Centre for Research and Information, at the Army Stadium in Dhaka on Saturday to mark Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s historic Mar 7 speech of 1971. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

March 07, 2020

Health workers check the temperature of journalists who came for news at the Padma Bridge Rail Link Project site in Dhaka's Keraniganj as part of the precautionary measures to prevent a possible outbreak of COVID-19. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Coronavirus precautions at Padma Bridge project

At least 10 people were killed and four others injured when a microbus carrying members of a family and their relatives from Dhaka to Sunamganj lost control on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway and hit a tree on Friday morning.

March 06, 2020

Work to make spans for the Padma Bridge under way at Kumarbhog Construction Yard in Mawa.

Padma Bridge work continues

A woman checking clothes at the National SME Product Fair at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka on Thursday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

National SME Product Fair

A farmer sets out to use fertiliser in his field in the ongoing Boro farming season in Brahmanbaria Sadar Upazila. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

March 05, 2020

First-time successes have turned farmers of Brahmanbaria to sunflower with swathes of the district now being used to farm the flower for oil production. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

March 04, 2020

Locals carry a villager, Abu Hanif, who was injured in clashes with the Border Guard Bangladesh in Khagrachhari's Matiranga, to the Chattogram Medical College Hospital on Tuesday. Photo: Suman Babu

March 03, 2020

A Shimul or red-silk cotton tree has started to blossom drawing birds on its branches in Narsingdi’s Raipura as spring arrives.

March 01, 2020

TCB is selling onions exported from Egypt, Turkey and Pakistan through its dealers at Tk 35 a kg. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Buying onion at Tk 35 a kg

Book-lovers throng the Ekushey Book Fair in Dhaka on the final day on Saturday.

February 29, 2020

Children browsing books at the Ekushey Book Fair on Friday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Children's hour at book fair

A man holding a placard in Dhaka's Shahbagh urging drivers to cut down on honking car horns as part of a self-initiative to curb noise pollution in the capital. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

February 28, 2020

Visitors check products presented by several US-based companies at 27th US Trade Show at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in Dhaka on Thursday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

US Trade Show in Dhaka

A little egret looking for food at the Katka Sanctuary in the Sundarbans. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

February 27, 2020

Parents of 32-day-old Abdullah posing for a photograph after the infant underwent a surgery to remove a parasitic twin from his body on Wednesday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

February 26, 2020

A flock of egrets roaming on the Katka sea beach in the Sundarbans. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

February 25, 2020

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