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Government and private buildings in Dhaka have been adorned with decorative lighting on the occasion of Mar 26 Independence Day. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

March 25, 2019

Pedestrians zigzagging across the street in Dhaka's at Karwan Bazar on Sunday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Jaywalking continues

Vehicles seized in Dhaka during Police Traffic Week (Mar 17-23) are kept at the new impound lot set up in Agargaon. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Impound lot in Agargaon

Workers cleaning the National Memorial at Savar on the outskirts of the capital on Sunday as it is getting prepared for the people to pay their respects the Independence Day.

March 24, 2019

DUCSU Vice-President Nurul Haq Nur speaking to the media outside the DUCSU building after the first meeting of the student body in nearly three decades. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

New DUCSU comes alive

The Boro Bari is located on 45 BK Das Road. Landlord Prasannababu built the structure nearly a hundred years ago. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Historic buildings wearing away in Sutrapur

RAB holds a conference at Bakshibazar’s Kara Convention Hall on Saturday to discuss the task force formed to relocate chemical warehouses and factories from Old Dhaka. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

March 23, 2019

Bamboo-made furniture and showpieces drew most the visitors at Hill Tracts Fair at the Shilpakala Academy premises in Dhaka's Segunbagicha on Friday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Hill Tracts Fair in Dhaka

The Rapid Action Battalion or RAB personnel conducting an anti-drugs drive on the Stranded Pakistanis Relief Camp, popularly known as the Geneva Camp, in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur early on Friday morning.

March 22, 2019

Young people celebrating Dol by smearing each other with colour at the Dhakheswari National Temple in Dhaka on Thursday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Dol Festival

The Federation of Teachers and Employees of Non-MPO Educational Institutions demonstrating outside the National Press Club in Dhaka on Thursday demanding that their institutions be brought under the government’s Monthly Pay Order or MPO programme. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

March 21, 2019

School-goers marched to join the students of Bangladesh University of Professionals, who were demonstrating at Nodda four the second day on Wednesday against the death of their peer Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Day 2 of student protests

Protesters blocked the street at Rampura in Dhaka on Wednesday in solidarity with the students of Bangladesh of Professionals who were demonstrating for justice for their peer Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury, who was run over and killed by a bus.

March 20, 2019

Students take to the streets in protest after the death of Bangladesh University of Professionals student Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury in a road accident in front of the Jamuna Future Park on Tuesday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Student death in road crash sparks protests

The three-day 15th BASIS SoftExpo 2019 with the slogan ‘Technology for Prosperity’ began at the International Convention City Bashundhara in Dhaka on Tuesday to exhibit Bangladesh’s capability in the IT sector. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

March 19, 2019

Children walk over the risky bamboo bridges, which have often led to accidents. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Culvert submerged by canal water

Members of Grameen Bank Fourth Class Employees Council demonstrated outside the National Press Club in Dhaka on Monday demanding their jobs be made permanent.

March 18, 2019

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pays her respects before the portrait of her father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi. Photo: Saiful Islam Kallol

Bangabandhu’s birthday

The Bangladesh cricket team arrived at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Saturday night after narrowly avoiding the New Zealand mosque shootings.

March 17, 2019

Rundown human haulers ply the streets in Old Dhaka. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Rundown human haulers

Newly elected DUCSU VP Nurul Haq Nur is on his way to the Ganabhaban, the prime minister’s official residence.

March 16, 2019

Visitors crowded a Dhaka Motor Show stall at the International Convention City Bashundhara in Dhaka on Friday

March 15, 2019

A student shows her ink-marked finger after casting her vote during students’ cabinet elections at Motijheel Government Girls’ High School. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Student cabinet polls

Five students on a hunger strike at the entrance of the Ruqayyah Hall on Thursday demanding fresh polls to Dhaka University Central Students’ Union.

March 14, 2019

Six students of Dhaka University continued their hunger strike at the altar of Raju Memorial Sculpture for the second day on Wednesday for fresh DUCSU elections and resignation of those involved in the polls marred by allegations of rigging and other irregularities. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

March 13, 2019

Small wooden boats are docked on the bank of the Buriganga River at Keraniganj's Aganagar after the authorities removed a pier in Dhaka's Sadarghat Launch Terminal area. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Boat services discontinued

Four Dhaka University students began a fast-to-death protest at the altar of the Raju Sculpture on the campus on Tuesday demanding fresh polls to the university’s central union of students or DUCSU.

March 12, 2019

Protesting students hold up marked Hall Council ballot papers found before polls opened at the Bangladesh-Kuwait Maitree Hall on Monday. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Protests at Kuwait Maitree Hall after discovery of ballots

Long lines of voters were seen in front of the polling centres at Dhaka University long before they opened at 8 am.

Long-awaited DUCSU polls

Dhaka University students became agitated after finding a trunk full of paper ballots for the DUCSU polls at a room at Ruqayyah Hall on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

March 11, 2019

People walk past a part of the wreckage at the scene of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 plane crash, near the town of Bishoftu, southeast of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia March 10, 2019. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

157 die in Ethiopian Airlines crash

Activists of the Ganasnghati Andolan took out a procession in Dhaka on Sunday demanding that the government scrap its plan to hike gas prices.

March 10, 2019

The upazila parishad elections are to be conducted in five stages, starting Mar 10 with polls in 87 upazilas. BGB personnel were deployed in Rajshahi on Saturday to maintain order.

March 09, 2019

Sonia supplies fuel to a vehicle at the Plana Filling Station on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in Narayanganj’s Langalbandh. She has been working at the station for the last two years. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Gas station operated by female attendants

Begum Badrunnessa Ahmed Trust honours Dipu Moni, the country's first female foreign minister and education minister, at an event on Friday marking International Women's Day. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

March 08, 2019

The residential halls of Dhaka University are covered with banners, festoons and posters ahead of Dhaka University Central Students' Union or DUCSU polls slated for Mar 11, after a gap of 29 years. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

March 07, 2019

Supporters of several panels and independent candidates distributing leaflets in front of Arts Building of Dhaka University ahead of the DUCSU polls, which is five days away. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

DU campus buzzing before DUCSU polls

These empty drums previously used for storing chemicals in Old Dhaka’s Swarighat will now be used for keeping water and other purposes. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

March 06, 2019

Illegal structures near the river Buriganga in the capital’s Bosila are razed to the ground during a BIWTA drive on Tuesday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Buriganga eviction drive

A BNP team of six leaders led by Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir went to the Secretariat in Dhaka on Tuesday to meet Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal. The BNP leaders demanded that the government ensure proper treatment of their chief Khaleda Zia in jail.

March 05, 2019

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader boards an air ambulance at the Dhaka airport to travel to Singapore for advanced medical treatment.

March 04, 2019

The footpath along Airport Road in Dhaka's Banani has been removed for Elevated Expressway project work, forcing people to walk on the main road. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

No or narrow sidewalks

The Communist Party of Bangladesh rallying outside the National Press Club in Dhaka on Sunday against a planned gas price hike.

March 03, 2019

Businessmen protest against the removal of chemical factories and warehouses from the residential areas in Old Dhaka.

March 02, 2019

Joler Gaan performing at Muktir Utsob, a festival organised by the Liberation War Museum at Dhaka University's central ground on Friday ahead of the Independence Day. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Muktir Utsob

Children watch planes take off from Dalipara, an area north of the runway at Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Thursday. Rules to keep people away from the high-security area are loosely implemented. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

March 01, 2019

A view of the Shamsul Haque Khan School and College Centre at newly added ward No. 65 under Dhaka South City Corporation during voting on Thursday for the councillor post. This photo was taken at 11:45am. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Dull vote in Dhaka

The slum near the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed in the capital’s Mirpur-14 was gutted by a fire that broke out in the early hours of Thursday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Fire destroys Mirpur slums

Dhaka North mayoral candidate Atiqul Islam casts his ballot at the voting centre in Uttara’s Nawab Habibullah Model School and College on Thursday. He urged voters to eat a hot plate of Khichuri and come out to vote on a rainy morning. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

February 28, 2019

A day before the Dhaka North mayoral by-election, polling materials are sent from the Rajdhani High School to designated voting centres across the city. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Polling logistics

Hazardous gas cylinders are still in use at many restaurants along the narrow alleyways of Old Dhaka. This photo was taken at Old Dhaka’s Kayettuli Abdul Hadi Lane on Tuesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

February 27, 2019

A team from BUET's Department of Chemical Engineering inspecting on Tuesday the site of the fire that devastated five buildings and a number of vehicles on an intersection at Churihatta in Old Dhaka's Chawkbazar. Flammable chemicals and perfume canisters stored in warehouses in the buildings said to have acted as bombs and fanned the deadly fire.

February 26, 2019

Work on the metro rail project has narrowed the stretch of road open to traffic in Karwan Bazar. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Work on the second phase of the metro rail

The national flag flies at half-mast atop government, semi-government, autonomous and private buildings on Monday to mark a national day of mourning for the victims of the Chawkbazar fire. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

February 25, 2019

The Chhatra Dal holds a sit-in protest near the Dhaka University Vice Chancellor’s Office on Sunday to call for a seven-point list of demands including a three-month delay to the DUCSU and hall union elections. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Madhu’s canteen heats up

This road in the capital was clogged with heavy traffic throughout the day even a few days ago. But the recent introduction of a U-loop has significantly eased traffic congestion. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

February 24, 2019

Children watch the Sisimpur, the Bangladeshi version of the globally-beloved children's puppet show, at the book fair on Saturday.

February 23, 2019

(From left) bdnews24.com Chief Cricket Correspondent and author of 'Kathae-Addae Mashrafe' Ariful Islam Roney, Bangladesh Cricket Board Director Ahmed Sajjadul Alam Bobby, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam, and bdnews24.com Editor-in-Chief Toufique Imrose Khalidi showing the book featuring Mashrafe's interviews with bdnews24.com after the launch at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair in Dhaka on Friday.

Launch of book on Mashrafe

Technicians from CID's forensic laboratory collecting saliva and blood samples of people who have lost their loved ones in the Chawkbazar fire at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Friday. At least 67 people have died in the fire, but 46 could be identified so far. DNA tests will be conducted to identify the others. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

February 22, 2019

The Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka is covered with flowers of respect on the Language Movement Day on Thursday.

Tribute to Language Movement martyrs

Scenes of chaos at Old Dhaka as massive fire spreads from a building, causing explosions and the death of at least 70 people in the congested Churihatta neighbourhood. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Inferno in Old Dhaka

Students march to Dhaka’s Central Shaheed Minar to honour the martyrs of the 1952 Language Movement in the early hours of International Mother Language Day. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

February 21, 2019

A group of students and guardians forms a human chain in Dhaka on Wednesday in front of Motijheel Government Boys' High School, alleging errors in the question papers of some subjects in the English version of the SSC examination.

February 20, 2019

A tearful woman praying at the Akheri Munajat in Gazipur’s Tongi. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Biswa Ijtema concludes

National Housing Authority workers bulldozing shanties during an eviction drive at a slum in Dhaka's Bhashantek on Tuesday.

February 19, 2019

A BIWTA mobile court conducts an eviction drive to remove illegal structures on the banks of the Buriganga River in Keraniganj’s Chor Washpur area. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Illegal structures demolished in Bosila

Atiqul Islam, the Awami League’s candidate for Dhaka North city mayor office, campaigning at Mirpur-13 on Monday ahead of the Feb 28 by-polls.

February 18, 2019

Construction work on the metro rail project is underway in Uttara’s Diabari area. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

The Uttara section of the metro rail project

A thunderstorm drenched the Ekushey Book Fair on Sunday, damaging the various stalls. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Thunderstorm halts book fair

Nearly 200 homes were burned by the fire that sparked at the slum next to Bhera Market in Chattogram’s Chaktai. Photo: Suman Babu

Bhera Market slum burns down

Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor Md Akhtaruzzaman speaking at the Sumitomo Coroporation Scholarship Award Ceremony on Sunday.

February 17, 2019

Hundreds of thousands of Muslim devotees took part in the Akheri Munajat on the banks of the Turag River in Tongi on Saturday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

One phase of Ijtema holds Akheri Munajat

Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority or BIWTA demolishing illegal establishments on the bank of Buriganga River in Dhaka's Shahidnagar area on Saturday.

February 16, 2019

Not all things at the Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital in Dhaka were in order on Friday, a day after it caught fire, but relatives were taking back patients there to the facility for resumption of treatment. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Suhrawardy Hospital returning to normal

Hundreds of thousands offered their Jumma prayers on the banks of the Turag in Tongi on Friday on the first day of Bishwa Ijtema. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Bishwa Ijtema starts, at last

Himu Paribahan, an organisation of volunteers, organised a road running event at the Central Shaheed Minar area in Dhaka on Friday to mark World Cancer Day. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

February 15, 2019

Patients are being brought out from the Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital in Dhaka's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar after it caught fire on Thursday evening.

Fire at Suhrawardy Hospital

A foreigner sporting a flower headband and a red saree as she basks in the love on Valentine's Day in Dhaka on Thursday.

Valentine's fever grips Dhaka

Visitors at a stall at the Food and Hospitality Bangladesh Expo-2019 at Bashundhara International Convention City. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Food and Hospitality Bangladesh Expo-2019

A pair of spotted deer is roaming in the Katka Wildlife Sanctuary in the Sundarbans. Bangladesh observed Sundarbans Day with a slogan, “Love Sundarbans on Valentine’s Day” on Thursday. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

February 14, 2019

Welcoming spring amidst music and laughter at Bokultola of Dhaka University's Faculty of Fine Arts on Wednesday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Spring arrives…

Foreigners sporting floral wreaths to celebrate the arrival of Basanta or spring on Bangla calendar while visiting Amar Ekushey Book Fair in Dhaka on Wednesday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

February 13, 2019

Preparations for Biswa Ijtema under way on the banks of the Turag River in Tongi on the outskirts of the capital on Tuesday. The four-day congregation of Sunni Muslims, organised by the Tabligh Jamaat, is starting on Friday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

February 12, 2019

Rickshaw garages, shops, offices of different political groups have been built illegally on the verges of the DIT pond next to Satish Sarker Road in the capital's Gandaria. The years-old water body will cease to exist if proper steps are not taken to stop encroachment. This photo was taken on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

February 11, 2019

A woman using a kerosene stove for cooking on Prasanna Poddar Lane at Tantibazar in Old Dhaka on Sunday due to a crisis of gas. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Gas crisis at Old Dhaka

A statue of Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of education, is displayed at a pond at Dhaka University’s Jagannath Hall. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Saraswati Puja

Members of Bangladesh Nari Sangbadik Kendra, a centre for women journalists in the country, demonstrating outside the National Press Club in Dhaka on Sunday.

February 10, 2019

Mominur Rahman Royal has been campaigning against noise pollution with his wife and five-month old child ever since witnessing his newborn being terrified by the sounds of car horns. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

February 09, 2019

Choosing books at stalls during Shishu Prohor or Children’s Hour in book fair. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Shishu Prohor

Members of 'Muktijoddhar Sontan O Projonmo Somonyo Parishad, an organisation of freedom fighters' descendants, demonstrating at the Shahbagh intersection in Dhaka on Friday evening for a seven-point charter of demand, including restoration of 30 percent quota for them in government jobs.

February 08, 2019

Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal leaders and activists marching on the Dhaka University campus to submit a memorandum with different demands to the vice-chancellor on Thursday morning ahead of the elections to the central students' union of the university or DUCSU.

February 07, 2019

Bangabandhu's grandson Radwan Mujib Siddiq showing American actress Angelina Jolie around the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum in Dhaka on Wednesday.

Angelina Jolie at Bangabandhu Museum

Visitors check out stalls at the REHAB fair 2019 being held at Dhaka's Bangabandhu International Conference Centre. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

REHAB Fair 2019

This auto-rickshaw has been renovated to look like a ‘portable garden'. Passengers of this CNG-run vehicle can watch TV dramas and listen to songs. It also has a mirror, comb and a tissue box. Stationery supplies like staplers and pens are also available. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

February 06, 2019

A water bus emitting black smoke during a trip in the dark Buriganga water at Kamrangirchar in Dhaka on Tuesday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Pollution turns Buriganga black

A mobile court of the BIWTA oversees the demolition of illegal structures on the banks of Buriganga at Kamrangirchar's Nababchar area. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Eviction at Kamrangirchar

Post, Telecommunication and IT Minister Mustafa Jabbar speaking at a Safer Internet Day programme organised by UNICEF at the Software Technology Park in Dhaka's Karwan Bazar on Tuesday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

February 05, 2019

Top Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie arrived in Cox’s Bazar to visit the Rohingya refugee camps as a special envoy for the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR.

February 04, 2019

This sculpture of footballer Lionel Messi by artist Mrinal Haque has drawn criticism. Photo: Abdul Mannan Dipto

Mrinal Haque’s Celebrity Gallery

Construction workers are busy on the elevated expressway project in Dhaka’s Khilkhet on Saturday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Elevated expressway

Prime Minister's Adviser for Private Industry and Investment Salman F Rahman addressing a discussion organised by FBCCI on Bangladesh's achievements in the power sector and best use of electricity for robust economic growth at a Dhaka hotel on Sunday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

February 03, 2019

The SSC examinations are held at the Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib Government Secondary School examination centre in Dhaka’s Ashkona on Saturday.

SSC exams begin

Characters from television show 'Sisimpur' attract young visitors during Children’s Hour at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair on Saturday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

February 02, 2019

Book lovers checking the stalls at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair in Dhaka on the opening day on Friday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Ekushey book fair begins

Visitors flocked to Dhaka International Trade Fair on weekly holiday Friday.

February 01, 2019

Students carrying placards during a demonstration at Rajendrapur on the Dhaka-Mawa Highway on Thursday demanding maximum punishment of the driver of the truck that ran over and killed two siblings on their way home from school in Keraniganj on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Justice demanded for road crash deaths

The Ekushey Book Fair, a fair close to the hearts of Bangalees, is just a day away. All stalls are being decked up with books. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Eyes on Ekushey Book Fair

A flock of herons searches for food in Srinagar Upazila in Munshiganj. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

January 31, 2019

The authorities bulldozing illegal structures constructed on the two sides of the railway tracks during an eviction drive at Doyaganj in Dhaka on Wednesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

January 30, 2019

BIWTA workers bulldozing a multi-storey building in a drive to clear illegal structures on the bank of the Buriganga River at Kamrangirchar in Dhaka on Tuesday.

Evictions on bank of Buriganga

Footwear shops are set up on the pavements and road dividers at Gulistan in Dhaka. Many choose the shops for cheap products. This photo was taken on Tuesday.

January 29, 2019

Glossy ibis migratory birds are seen in Sunamganj’s Tanguar Haor, a vast wetland. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

January 28, 2019

A traffic police personnel help visually impaired women cross the street at Banani’s Kakoli intersection on Sunday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Traffic police at work

A wall put up near BRAC University in Dhaka invites people to donate old clothes for the needy during winter. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

January 27, 2019

The water is initially collected in small containers before being stored in larger ones. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Drinking water crisis

Members celebrate Bangladesh’s Chhatra League’s 71st anniversary by dressing up as Liberation War freedom fighters. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Chhatra League celebrates anniversary

The alumni of Dhaka University's English Department gathered at the Teacher-Student Centre on Friday for their annual bash.

DU English Dept alumni get-together

Light decorations are put up as preparation for the annual Amar Ekushey Book Fair, set to begin in a few days. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Before the book fair

Visitors flocked to Dhaka International Trade Fair 2019 on the weekly holiday Friday.

January 25, 2019

The three-day National Vegetables Fair and Vegetables Exhibition 2019 kicked off on the Department of Agricultural Extension premises in Dhaka on Thursday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

January 24, 2019

Ahmed Imtiaz Bulbul's only son Samir Ahmed embraces his father's coffin during a ceremony to pay tribute to the noted musician and freedom fighter at Dhaka's Central Shaheed Minar on Wednesday.

Goodbye Bulbul

The sixth span of the Padma Bridge is installed on piers 36 and 37 at the Zajira end on Wednesday. The span was brought to the site from a construction yard in Munshiganj’s Kumarbhog on a floating crane. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

January 23, 2019

The sixth span of the Padma Bridge will be installed on piers 36 and 37 at the Zajira end on Wednesday. The span was brought to the site from a construction yard in Munshiganj’s Kumarbhog on a floating crane on Tuesday.

January 22, 2019

An excavator is used to remove refuse from the Kutubkhali Canal on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Clean-up drive on Kutubkhali Canal

Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam greeting Sheikh Hasina with flowers before the first meeting of her new council of ministers at the Prime Minister’s Office in Dhaka on Monday. Photo: Saiful Islam Kallol

January 21, 2019

Leader of the Opposition in Parliament and Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad departs for Singapore, where he is to receive medical treatment. He left his home in Baridhara at 11:30 am on Sunday for the airport. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

January 20, 2019

The Awami League organises a rally at the Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka on Saturday to celebrate its landslide victory in the Dec 30 parliamentary election.

Awami League’s election victory celebration

A farmer carries a ripe pumpkin on his head in the Arial Beel area. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

The pumpkins of Arial Beel