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Surfer Quamrul Islam showing off his skills at St Martin's Island.

Surfing at St Martin's

Several objects made out of empty plastic bottles collected by the BD Clean members are displayed at the exhibition. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Exhibition of plastic bottles

National Heart Foundation, PROGGA and the Consumers Association of Bangladesh jointly organised a discussion at the CIRDAP Auditorium in Dhaka on Sunday to raise awareness about the risks of heart diseases from trans fat.

December 15, 2019

People from all walks of life pay tribute to martyred intellectuals of 1971 on Martyred Intellectuals Day on Saturday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Martyred Intellectuals Day

Several groups organised a discussion at the National Press Club in Dhaka on Saturday marking a decade of the judiciary’s separation from the executive.

December 14, 2019

Fishermen catching fish from rafts made of plastic bottles on the Naf River in Cox's Bazar. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

December 13, 2019

Police chased and detained two people after BNP leaders and activists shouted slogans in protest against the Supreme Court's decision to reject an appeal by party chief Khaleda Zia for bail in a graft case on Thursday.

Khaleda bail hearing

Sisters of siblings ‘Razzak’ and ‘Alamgir’, who died last night in a fire incident at Keraniganj plastic factory, mourn their loved ones. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Debris of burnt plastic factory in Keraniganj

Moslem Uddin Ahmed, the ruling Awami League candidate for the Chattogram-8 parliamentary constituency, submitting his nomination papers to the regional election office on Love Lane in the port city on Thursday ahead of the by-polls scheduled for Jan 13.

December 12, 2019

Unidentified miscreants set fire to a motorcycle amid tight security in front of the main gate of National Eidgah Ground in Dhaka on Wednesday, a day before the top court is to begin hearing the appeal for bail by BNP chief Khaleda Zia in a corruption case.

December 11, 2019

Passengers waiting for a ride at the Dhaka’s Mohakhali terminal amid an ongoing bus strike enforced by transport owners on the Mymensingh route. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Long-haul bus riders in trouble

People paid last respects to Ekushey Padak-winning freedom fighter, physicist and public intellectual Professor Ajoy Roy at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka on Tuesday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

December 10, 2019

A Dhaka University graduate putting her cap on her child's head at the TSC on Monday, the day of university's 52nd convocation. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Dhaka University's 52nd convocation

Dhaka University students wearing graduation gowns celebrate the convocation day. The university held its 52nd convocation on Monday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

December 09, 2019

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina addressing the 2017-18 National Film Awards ceremony at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka on Sunday. Photo: Saiful Islam Kallol

National Film Awards 2017-18

Transparency International, Bangladesh or TIB organised an anti-corruption human chain on Manik Miah Avenue in Dhaka on the eve of the International Anti-Corruption Day on Sunday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

December 08, 2019

Supporters of two factions of the Awami League scuffled and hurled plastic chairs at each other during the party’s Chattogram district north unit's council in Laldighi area on Saturday. Photo: Suman Babu

AL’s Ctg north unit council

A worker carries out repair work at the Martyred Intellectuals' Memorial at Dhaka’s Rayer Bazar ahead of the Martyred Intellectuals Day. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

December 07, 2019

Street food vendors selling Chitai Pitha with different types of Bharta in Dhaka's Farmgate. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Chitai Pitha with Bharta

Students of Stamford University organised a human-chain demonstration outside their Siddheswari campus in Dhaka on Friday against the alleged murder of their peer Rubaiyat Sharmin Rumpa.

December 06, 2019

Children are also buying TCB onion for their families as the corporation allows only one kg per customer. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Crowds for TCB onion

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam addressing a news conference at the Supreme Court Bar Association Auditorium after the pro-BNP lawyers stirred up chaos in the courtroom during the hearing of Khaleda Zia's bail appeal in a graft case on Thursday.

December 05, 2019

The students of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology announcing a plan to return to classes at a news briefing in Dhaka, after the authorities met their demands, including the expulsion of 26 students over the murder of their peer Abrar Fahad. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

December 04, 2019

Rakibul Hasan Regan, the militant sentenced to death for the 2016 Holey Artisan attack, was produced in Dhaka's anti-terrorism tribunal on Tuesday for the hearing of a case over the deadly raid on a house in Kalyanpur around a month after the cafe attack.

December 03, 2019

Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun addresses an event at Dhaka's IRF auditorium on Monday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

December 02, 2019

Jabale Nur Paribahan bus driver Jubayer Sumon crying as police escorting him from the court to jail in Dhaka on Sunday after he was handed life imprisonment for the deaths of two college students in a road crash that triggered widespread protests. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Verdict on Jabale Nur Bus killing students

A worker printing calendars in the capital’s Fakirapool on Sunday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

The New Year calendars

A procession was taken out on the Dhaka University campus on Sunday to celebrate the start of the month of victory in the War of Independence from Pakistan.

December 01, 2019

Passengers suffer at Dhaka's Sadarghat as an indefinite strike called by water transport workers cuts off river communication between the southern districts and the rest of the country.

November 30, 2019

Police detain BNP leader ABM Mosharraf Hossain after an event at the National Press Club in Dhaka on Friday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

November 29, 2019

Moazzem Hossain, former OC of Sonagazi Police Station in Feni, arriving at the Cyber Tribunal in Dhaka on Thursday ahead of the verdict in a digital security case. The tribunal sentenced him to eight years in jail for unlawfully releasing a video of a statement from madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi on social media before her death in an arson attack.

November 28, 2019

Police escorting Rakibul Hasan Regan, an operative of neo-JMB wearing a prayer cap emblazoned with the Islamic State’s insignia, after a Dhaka tribunal announced the verdict on Holey Artisan Bakery attack case on Wednesday.

Gulshan attack verdict

The launch terminal at Sadarghat was relatively empty after the Jatiya Sramik Oikya Parishad and Jatiya Sramik League called an impromptu strike on Wednesday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

November 27, 2019

Banani Police OC Salahuddin was hit by a grenade when he tried to enter into the restaurant. He succumbed to the splinter wounds in nearby United Hospital.

Looking back on Holey Artisan terror attack

A woman, who brought a baby with her, secures one kilogram onion after a long wait. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

TCB trucks sell imported onion

Activists of pro-BNP Jatiyatabadi Muktijuddha Dal clashed with police in front of the Supreme Court on Tuesday after blocking the road to demand the release of jailed BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

November 26, 2019

Members of 18 BFDC-based film associations formed a human chain in front of the state-run corporation at the capital's Tejgaon on Monday demanding implementation of new road transport law and protesting against road safety campaigner Ilias Kanchan's humiliation by the transport workers. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

November 25, 2019

A woman on an autorickshaw covers the nose of a child to save it from dust on a street at Postogola in Dhaka. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Dusty Dhaka

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina speaks ahead of a presentation on the government's plans to implement Vision 2041 programme aimed at transforming Bangladesh into a developed country within the next two decades.

November 24, 2019

Jubo League names Sheikh Fazle Shams Parash, the son of the organisation's founder Sheikh Fazlul Haq Mani, as its new chairman during the council session at Dhaka's Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh on Saturday.

Jubo League's 7th National Congress

The bodies of nine people who died after a collision between a bus and a microbus in Munshiganj's Sreenagar Upazila, were buried after a namaz-e-janaza in the district's Louhajang Upazila on Saturday.

November 23, 2019

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurating the first day-night Test between India and Bangladesh by ringing a bell at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Friday. Photo: PID

Hasina in Kolkata to watch Test

Onlookers gather after a bus-microbus collision on the Dhaka-Mawa Highway in Munshiganj's Srinagar Upazila on Friday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Fatal bus-microbus collision

The Matsya Bhaban intersection in Dhaka is bedecked with posters, banners and festoons containing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s photos on Friday as she is scheduled to inaugurate Jubo League’s national congress on Saturday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

November 22, 2019

A child fell asleep while waiting for a bus at Gabtoli bus terminal in Dhaka on Thursday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Knock-on effects of cancelled strike

A shop owner breaks down in tears after his valuables were destroyed by a fire that erupted at the capital's New Rajdhani Super Market on Wednesday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

November 21, 2019

Some commuters hired pickup vans to reach their destinations as public transports were sparse on the roads on Wednesday due to the strike called by transport workers demanding revision of the road transport law. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Transport strike rages on

A man sleeps inside a mosquito net on a footbridge used by school children to cross the road in Dhaka’s Mirpur-13. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

November 20, 2019

Customers thronged shops at Karwan Bazar in Dhaka to buy salt on Tuesday following rumours of a price hike.

November 19, 2019

A policeman checks the registration documents of a vehicle in Dhaka’s Manik Miah Avenue on Monday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

New traffic law kicks in

Shahadat Hossain Selim, former joint secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, announces a new committee, led by Abdul Karim Abbasi, at a news conference in Dhaka on Monday. Abbasi and Selim were dropped from the central committee formed by LDP President Oli Ahmad, a retired colonel. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

November 18, 2019

Fire service personnel conducting a rescue drive after a gas pipeline exploded on the ground floor of a building in Patharghata Brick Field Road in Chattogram on Sunday, leaving at least seven people dead. Photo: Suman Babu

Gas line explosion in Chattogram

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal speaks at the launch of ‘National Strategy for Prevention of Money Laundering and Combating Financing of Terrorism 2019- 2021’ at the InterContinental hotel in Dhaka on Sunday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

November 17, 2019

Najma Begum and her son Nafiz, who were injured and lost Najma’s daughter Sohamoni in a train accident in Brahmanbaria’s Kasba Upazila on Nov 12, are being treated at the Pangu Hospital in Dhaka where Najma’s husband, injured in the same accident, has also been admitted. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

People injured in B’baria train crash

Children pick up the rotten onions discarded by traders from the Karnaphuli River in Chattogram. Photo: Suman Babu

November 16, 2019

Mohammad Iftekhar Mahmud, a man with visual impairment, and Salma Mahbub, a woman with walking disabilities, came to the Officers' Club in Dhaka on Friday to pay taxes for their organisation Bangladeshi Systems Change Advocacy Network or B-SCAN at the Income Tax Fair. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Income Tax Fair on holiday

Sheepa Hafiza, the executive director at the legal aid and human rights organisation Ain O Salish Kendra or ASK, speaking at a press conference at their office in Dhaka's Lalmatia on Friday after a Rajuk mobile court ordered them to move the office within two months on Thursday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

November 15, 2019

A mobile court of the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection fined a trader during a drive on the wholesale onion market in Dhaka's Mirpur-1 on Friday amid soaring prices. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Mobile court amid soaring onion prices

Plastic waste from different parts of the capital are set out to dry along the slopes of the embankments at Old Dhaka's Lalbagh area. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Plastic shards by the Buriganga

Dhaka’s rail links to the northern and southern regions are suspended after a Rangpur Express train from the capital went off the tracks near the Ullapara Railway Station in Sirajganj on Thursday.

November 14, 2019

Chattogram Metropolitan Police have arrested two staff members of the Election Commission's offices on charges of issuing counterfeit NIDs to Rohingya refugees.

November 13, 2019

Rival groups of Jubo League's Chattogram Metropolitan unit clashed during an event marking the organisation's 47th anniversary at Laldighi Maidan in the port city on Tuesday. Photo: Suman Babu

November 12, 2019

Grameenphone Chief Executive Officer Michael Foley, Chief Marketing Officer Yasir Azman and Head of Regulatory Affairs Hossain Sadat speak to reporters at a hotel in Dhaka on Monday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

November 11, 2019

Members of a family returning to home from a shelter centre at the Khulna’s Dacope Upazila after a cyclone on Sunday. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Bulbul devastatation in Khulna

Billboards containing provisions of the new transport law have been installed in various parts of Dhaka on Monday to create awareness on traffic rules. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

November 10, 2019

A pillion rider carries an umbrella on a motorcycle at Karwan Bazar in Dhaka on Saturday as rains hit the capital under the influence of a cyclone. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Cyclone triggers rains

Family of nonagenarian Joytun arrives at Mongla Port High School, which has been turned into a temporary storm shelter, in Bagerhat on Saturday as Cyclone Bulbul nears the coast. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

November 09, 2019

The authorities suspended all operations at Chittagong Port on Friday evening until further notice after the Met Office raised Cyclone Bulbul warning level to danger signal.

November 08, 2019

A child is playing on coal while its parents work. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Coal workers

Political, social and cultural organisations paying their last tributes to BNP Vice-Chairman and former Dhaka mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka at the Central Shaheed Minar on Thursday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Final respects for Sadeque Hossain Khoka

Students defied a ban to demonstrate on the campus on Thursday demanding removal of Jahangirnagar University Vice-Chancellor Farzana Islam.

November 07, 2019

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina addressing the opening session of Bangladesh Krishak League’s tri-annual council at the Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka on Wednesday.

November 06, 2019

Such small passenger vehicles continue plying on the Gulistan-Rohitpur route even after the new Road Transport Act came into force.

Unfit vehicles

Visitors check out jeans at a stall on the first day of the Bangladesh Denim Expo at the International Convention City Bashundhara in Dhaka on Tuesday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Denim Expo 2019

Traders transporting onion imported from Egypt after buying the cooking ingredient from Old Dhaka’s Shyambazar wholesale market at Tk 90 per kg on Tuesday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

November 05, 2019

Expelled Jubo League leader Khaled Mahmud Bhuiyan arrives at the Anti-Corruption Commission headquarters to face questioning over his ill-gotten wealth on Monday following his arrest during the ongoing anti-casino crackdown.

November 04, 2019

The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh sells onion at Tk 45 per kg on a truck for the poor, as the price of essential ingredient is yet to decrease.

November 03, 2019

Students sit for the JSC exams Keraniganj's Zinzira PM High School and College on Saturday.

JSC, JDC exams begin

Two helmetless men ride a motorcycle with police stickers on the vehicle on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway at Rayerbagh on the outskirts of the capital on Saturday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

November 02, 2019

A family watching a plane fly on Baunia Road at Jasimuddin Road in Dhaka's Uttara next to Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport runway.

Dhaka airport sightseeing

Visitors browse items at Bangladesh Leather Footwear & Leather Goods International Sourcing Show 2019 (BLLISS)at the International Convention City Bashundhara in Dhaka on Friday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Leathertech Bangladesh 2019

Police presented Moinul Haque Monju, a DSCC ward councillor, in court on Friday for permission to grill him in custody on charges related to recovery of illegal arms and drugs during a drive on his home and office

November 01, 2019

RAB arrested Dhaka South City Corporation Ward Councillor Moinul Haque Monju on charges of extortion on Thursday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Councillor Monju arrested

The RAB seized liquor and beer in a drive on Dhaka South City Corporation Ward-39 Coucillor Moinul Haque Monju’s home on Thursday.

October 31, 2019

Workers of Dhaka University’s Haji Muhammad Mohsin Hall found 10 machetes, two knives and several steel pipes while cleaning the rooftop of the residential hall on Wednesday.

October 30, 2019

The Muktijuddho Mancha organised a human-chain demonstration in front of the Raju Memorial Sculpture on the Dhaka University campus on Tuesday demanding that the Dinajpur deputy commissioner, Sadar Upazila executive officer and assistant commissioner (land) be removed for what they said insulting freedom fighter Ismail Hossain and his family.

October 29, 2019

Professor Ajoy Roy, the father of the slain writer-blogger Avijit Roy, appears in court on Monday to give testimony in the case he started over the murder of his son in 2015.

October 28, 2019

Stolen fuel oil being sold on a street at Pallabi in Dhaka's Mirpur. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Trading stolen fuel oil

Winners pose for a group photograph with guests at the Meena Media Awards 2019 ceremony organised at Sonargaon Hotel on Sunday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Meena Media Award

Passengers travel on speedboats without life jackets across the Jamuna River on the risky Aricha-Kazirhat route. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

October 27, 2019

Slum-dwellers have put up tents and makeshift shacks where their homes once stood. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Rising from the ashes

A procession was taken out from the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Headquarters to mark Community Policing Day.

October 26, 2019

The Dhaka North City Corporation has set up a push-to-walk button with countdown timer traffic signal in front of St Francis Xavier's Green Herald International School on Asad Avenue at Mohammadpur. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Push-to-walk button

Some pedestrians, including women and children, trying to cross the road filled with knee-deep mud. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Saga of muddy mess

The mosque is considered to have been built during the 18th century. Renovation works of the building were done in recent times. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Mia Bari mosque in Korapur

Law Minister Anisul Huq addresses a press conference at his Gulshan residence in Dhaka to give his reaction to the court verdict in Feni madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi murder case on Friday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

October 25, 2019

Policemen escorting Sonagazi madrasa principal SM Siraj-ud-Doula, who orchestrated the murder of student Nusrat Jahan Rafi for protesting against sexual abuse by him, to the court in Feni on Thursday for the delivery of the verdict.

Nusrat murder verdict

BRTA operated a mobile court at Gabtoli in Dhaka on Thursday to bring order to traffic and stop unfit vehicles from plying on the streets. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

October 24, 2019

Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Atiqul Islam briefs the media on programmes to destroy mosquitoes in Dhaka on Wednesday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

October 23, 2019

Bangladesh Cricket Board President Nazmul Hassan briefing the media after an emergency meeting over players' strike for a pay hike at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka on Tuesday.

October 22, 2019

The daughters of artist Kalidas Karmakar, Konka Karmakar and Keya Karmakar, mourn the passing of their father at Dhaka University's Faculty of Fine Arts on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

October 21, 2019

A cluster of catkins or phragmite grass flowers bloom in the middle of a lush green paddy field in Laxmipur's Char Alexander. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

October 20, 2019

Erosion of the Meghna river banks destroyed hundreds of homes, educational institutions and other structures at Char Falkon union in Laxmipur’s Kamalnagar Upazila in past few months. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

October 19, 2019

An event was held in Dhaka's Banani on Friday to celebrate Wangala, the hills festival of the Garo tribe marking harvest. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

October 18, 2019

Forme DUCSU leaders held a human-chain demonstration outside the National Press Club in Dhaka on Thursday against the murder of BUET student Abrar Fahad.

October 17, 2019

Hanif Pappu also takes custom-made orders from customers. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Hanif Pappu's rickshaw paintings

More than a year after the relocation of Dhaka's tannery industry from Hazaribagh, a garbage-filled canal in that area has yet to be cleared. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

October 16, 2019

Rajmoni Cinema Hall in Dhaka's Kakrail started its journey with actor Razzak's

Rajmoni Cinema Hall shuts

A mobile court fined two traders in Chattogram's Khatunganj wholesale market Tk 20,000 each for selling onion at higher prices than normal.

October 15, 2019

A candidate rushing into the BUET admission test centre minutes before the exams on Monday.

BUET entry tests

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hugs and consoles slain BUET student Abrar Fahad's mother Rokeya Khatun at the Ganabhaban on Monday.

October 14, 2019

Buddhist devotees releasing sky lanterns into the sky on the occasion of Probarona Purnima at the International Vihara in Dhaka's Merul Badda on Sunday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Probarona sky lanterns

Lights on Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover are yet to be lit up on Sunday two years after the structure opened. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

October 13, 2019

The BUET authorities on Saturday sealed off the room No. 3012 occupied illegally by Bangladesh Chhatra League's university unit General Secretary Mehedi Hasan Rasel at Sher-e-Bangla Hall after banning politics on the campus facing protests over the murder of student Abrar Fahad. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

BUET protests roll into Day 6

Dhaka Metropolitan BNP organised a rally outside the party's offices at Naya Paltan on Saturday in protest against the murder of BUET student Abrar Fahad and release of its chief Khaleda Zia from jail.

October 12, 2019

BUET Vice-Chancellor Professor Saiful Islam speaking at a meeting with students, who have been protesting for five days against the murder of their peer Abrar Fahad, at the auditorium on Friday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

BUET VC meets protesters

The abundance of Hilsha in the market has dragged prices down considerably across the country. Traders at Firingi Bazar in Chattogram preserve the surplus fishes by dousing them in salt. Photo: Suman Babu

Salted Hilsha

A local ward councillor organised a boat race in the Buriganga river in Dhaka on Friday to celebrate the centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, which will fall next year. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

October 11, 2019

BUET students staged a street drama on the campus on Thursday in protest against the murder of their peer Abrar Fahad. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Justice demanded for Abrar

Police arrested slain BUET student Abrar Fahad's roommate Md Mizanur Rahman at Sher-e-Bangla Hall's room No. 1011 on Thursday.

October 10, 2019

Residents continue to jeopardise their lives at risk by living in buildings that were partially-demolished in an eviction drive by BIWTA on the banks of the Buriganga River in Old Dhaka's Islambag after . Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

October 09, 2019

Sharodiyo Durgotsob ends with the immersion of the goddess' idols on Tuesday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Durga Puja ends

Hindu devotees smear each other with 'abir' (dry colours) in playful jest before the immersion ceremony of Goddess Durga to mark Bijoya Dashami at the capital's Kalabagan Puja Mandap on Tuesday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

October 08, 2019

Students of Dhaka University staging a procession to protest the murder of Abrar Fahad, a student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), who was allegedly bludgeoned with blunt objects by BCL men. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

October 07, 2019

A girl was the living icon of child Durga during Kumari Puja in Dhaka's Ramakrishna Mission on Maha Ashtami of the Sharodiyo Durgotsob on Sunday.

Kumari Puja

Media workers and onlookers gathered outside Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat's home at Sheltech Tower in Dhaka's Shantinagar on Sunday during a raid on the building after his arrest over his links to illegal casino business.

October 06, 2019

The bicycle lanes on both side of the street in Dhaka’s Agargaon are six feet wide. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Bicycle lane in Dhaka

Bangladesh Scouts carried out ‘Dettol Harpic Clean Bangladesh’ campaign in Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar on Saturday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

October 05, 2019