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(From left to right) Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority consultant Munir Hasan, Maya Apa founding CEO Ivy Huq Russell, BTRC Chairman Shahjahan Mahmood, and State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak at the programme titled 'Social Media Parade' on internet safety at the Software Technology Park in Dhaka's Karwan Bazar on Monday. Photo: asif mahmud ove

Social Media Parade

Workers use the traditional method of drying paddy at a barn near the Dhaka-Mawa Highway. Photo: tanvir ahammed

Barn workers

Bangladesh Chhatra Union takes out a procession demanding elections to the Dhaka University Central Student's Union or DUCSU on Monday. Photo: asif mahmud ove

October 16, 2017

Police club a Chhatra League procession at Chittagong College on Monday. Photo: suman babu

BCL rivals clash in Ctg

Vehicles are seen changing lanes in Kuchiamara on the Dhaka-Mawa Highway. Photo: tanvir ahammed

Anarchy on a highway

An autistic woman's child, born on the side of a road at Chittagong's Patenga, is put in the custody of Ward Councillor couple Jainal Abedin and Shahnoor Begum on Sunday. Photo: suman babu

October 15, 2017

A BNP protest march in Barisal against the warrants issued for party chief Khaleda Zia was broken up by police on Saturday.

October 14, 2017

Samajtantrik Mohila Forum holds a rally in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka on Friday for various demands and to mark the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution.

October 13, 2017

A massive crowd descends on Dhaka's Khamarbari to buy eggs during a special sale for World Egg Day on Friday morning. Some hold up crates and buckets, hoping to fill them with eggs that were being sold for Tk 3 per piece. Photo: asif mahmud ove

An eggy day in Dhaka

Roads at Dhaka’s Bangla Motor area on Thursday amid Jamaat-e-Islami’s dawn-to-dusk shutdown. Photo: abdul mannan

October 12, 2017

Workers busy at the Metrorail project construction site at Diyabari in Dhaka's Uttara. The elevated train service will have 16 stations and it will take approximately 38 minutes to reach Motijheel from Uttara. Photo: tanvir ahammed

Metrorail project

A Dhaka traffic police officer manhandles a motorbike rider on Wednesday after penalising him for not wearing a helmet. The rider, Nasiruddin Ahmed, who works as a photojournalist for a newspaper, claims he was assaulted by the officer and that his camera was snatched away.

October 11, 2017

Police in Chittagong detained several leaders and activists of the Bangladesh Labour Party, a stakeholder in the BNP-led political coalition, after its founding anniversary event on Tuesday. Photo: suman babu

October 10, 2017

Police in Jessore cordoned off a suspected militant hideout on Monday at the district town's Noapara neighbourhood. After a 15-hour standoff, Khadiza, the sister of Dhaka cafe attack suspect Nurul Islam Marzan, surrendered to police with her three children.

October 09, 2017

A protestor holds a placard as students from seven colleges affiliated with the Dhaka University blockaded the New Market intersection in Dhaka on Sunday demanding that the authorities publish their results. Photo: abdul mannan

Blocking road for results

President Md Abdul Hamid takes a boat ride in the backswamp of Mithamoin in his home district Kishoreganj to inspect development projects on Sunday. Photo: Press Wing, Bangabhaban

October 08, 2017

An ambulance carrying a 9-day-old ill infant is stuck in traffic as police stop vehicles on Airport Road after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's arrival from abroad on Saturday.

October 07, 2017

Awami League supporters and activists wave to the prime minister in greeting as her motorcade enters the Bijoy Sarani intersection. Photo: md asaduzzaman pramanik

Hasina returns home

Satyen Sen Shilpi Goshthhi artists perform a dance sequence at a programme to celebrate Sharat, the fourth season in Bangla calendar, at Bakultala of Dhaka University's Faculty of Fine Arts on Friday.

Celebrating Sharat (autumn) in Dhaka

Despite a previous announcement by the road transport minister for a car-free Manik Mia avenue on the first weekly holiday of every month, traffic authorities could not enforce it on Friday due to the admission test for medical and dental colleges. Photo: md asaduzzaman pramanik

October 06, 2017

Police collected and sorted out resumes by job-seekers, who were not able to submit it to their preferred IT firms due to the huge crowd at Jessore's Sheikh Hasina IT Park during a job fair on Thursday.

October 05, 2017

Bangladesh Finance Minister AMA Muhith greets his Indian counterpart Arun Jaitley at an event at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in Dhaka on Wednesday. Photo: md asaduzzaman pramanik

Second day of Arun Jaitley's Dhaka visit

Jessia Islam wears the crown of Miss World Bangladesh during a ceremony at Dhaka's Hotel Westin on Wednesday, after days of controversy surrounding the competition's selection process and the title's former winner Jannatul Nayeem Avril. Photo: abdul mannan

October 04, 2017

Indian Foreign Minister Arun Jaitley attends a discussion on India-Bangladesh trade relations at Dhaka’s Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel on Tuesday. Photo: md asaduzzaman pramanik

Jaitley in Dhaka

Several cultural organisations and political parties paid their last respects to Comrade Jasim Mandal on Tuesday. The veteran leader of the Communist Party of Bangladesh passed away at 95 at a Dhaka hospital on Monday. Photo: asif mahmud ove

October 03, 2017

New executive members of `Bangladesh Film Forum' pose for photos at Dhaka Club in the capital on Monday. The organisation is launched as a rival of 'Film Unity Alliance'. Photo: abdul mannan

October 02, 2017

Ashura marks the climax of the Remembrance of Muharram when Muslims commemorate the slaying of Imam Hussain ibn Ali, the grandson of Prophet Mohammad (pbuh), in 680 AD in the Battle of Karbala. Photo: asif mahmud ove

Ashura processions

Villagers of Nuritola, at Comilla's Chandina, join fire service personnel in rescuing wounded passengers from a bus that fell into a ditch next to the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway, killing seven people on Sunday.

October 01, 2017

Hindu devotees carry an idol of goddess Durga for immersion in the river Burhiganga at Dhaka's Wise Ghat on Saturday by the end of their largest festival Durga Puja. Photo: tanvir ahammed

Durga Puja ends

CELEBRATIONS OF COLOURS: Hindus mark the end of five-day Durga Puja at Dhaka's Kalabagan pavilion on Saturday ahead of the immersion of the goddess. Photo: abdul mannan

Festival of colours ahead of Durga's farewell

The first beam between two pillars of the Padma Bridge, one of the largest infrastructure projects in Bangladesh, has been installed on Saturday. The 6.15-kilometre bridge will have 42 pillars, including two on the banks.

September 30, 2017

Law enforcers, who are tasked with supervising safe commute, take the unsafe ways, setting a poor example for citizens. In this photo taken at Mohakhali in Dhaka on Friday, a policeman is seen riding a motorcycle with two of his colleagues on the pillion seats, all without helmet. Photo: abdul mannan

September 29, 2017

The Information Commission took out a procession on Thursday observing the International Right to Know Day. Photo: asif mahmud ove

Access to Information Day

Kumari Puja being held on the Mahashtami of Durga Puja by worshiping this child as a juvenile deity at the Ramkrishna Mission in Dhaka. Photo: asif mahmud ove

Kumari puja on Ashtami

INS Gharial, an Indian Navy ship, arrives at Chittagong port with 700 tonnes of aid for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, before a meeting of the UN Security Council over Myanmar violence on Thursday. Photo: suman babu

September 28, 2017

A dance sequence from the Tourism Fest organised by the Aviation and Tourism Journalism Forum of Bangladesh at the Rabindra Sarobar on Wednesday in Dhanmondi, Dhaka. Photo: tanvir ahammed

World Tourism Day 2017

RAB uses its dog squad to beef up security in Hosni Dalan area in old part of Dhaka on Wednesday ahead of Ashura. The authorities take tight security measures since the bomb attack in 2015.

September 27, 2017

A top view of the Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover at Dhaka's Malibagh. Photo: abdul mannan

The Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover is ready

Dhaka University teachers, workers and students demand an end to violence against Rohingyas in Myanmar and their safe return to their country on the DU campus on Tuesday. Photo: tanvir ahammed

Demonstrations protest violence against Rohingyas

The start of Durga Puja, the largest festival for Hindus in Bangladesh, is celebrated at the Dhakeshwari Temple on Tuesday.

September 26, 2017

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi speaks on the Rohingya crisis at a media briefing at Gulshan's Hotel Amari on Monday. Photo: mostafigur rahman

September 25, 2017

The Gana Sangskriti Dal holds a demonstration in front of the National Press Club on Sunday to protest rising commodity prices and violence against Rohingyas. Photo: asif mahmud ove

September 24, 2017

Pedestrians crossing the railway tracks at Mohakhali in the capital on Saturday when the approaching train is just seconds away from the level crossing. Photo: asaduzzaman pramanik

Risking life daily

A Rohingya refugee child cries as others queue to receive aid in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Sept 22, 2017. Reuters

Hungry refugees scramble for food

Lack of public transportation forces women to jostle for space on buses as seen in Dhaka’s Mohakhali area on Saturday. Photo: asaduzzaman pramanik

September 23, 2017

A visitor looks at an watercolour of Shahanoor Mamun at the artist's solo exhibition at Galleri Kaya in the capital's Uttara on Friday. Photo: tanvir ahammed

Stories from Nature

The ​Rohingya children ​attend schools ​at refugee camps​ ​in​ Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh​. ​They will continue up to grade three at these schools​ set up jointly by several NGOs, with no option for further studies.​​ ​The photo is taken from Kutupalong camp. ​Photo: mostafigur rahman

September 22, 2017

An idol of Hindu goddess Saraswati awaits finishing touches at an artisan workshop in Dhaka’s Banglabazar on Thursday. Photo: tanvir ahammed

Welcoming Durga

A three-day exhibition of Malaysian products and services kick off at Dhaka's International Convention City Bashundhara. Photo: asaduzzaman pramanik

Malaysia showcased in Dhaka

For school students, the risky journey on the footrest of this human-hauler is a regular experience, as seen in Dhaka's Agargaon on Wednesday. Photo: asif mahmud ove

September 21, 2017

A car sprays water as it crosses the west side of the Mirpur road flooded by rainwater on Wednesday.

September 20, 2017

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina speaks to US President Donald Trump during a break at a high-level meeting on Monday at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Photo: Yeasin Kabir Joy

PM Hasina at UN

Ganasanghati Andolan activists hold placards against the ethnic cleansing of Myanmar's Rohingyas during a protest march to the UN offices in Dhaka's Agargaon on Tuesday.

September 19, 2017

A visitor appreciates a photo in the solo exhibition on the life and culture of small ethnic groups in the Chittagong Hill Tracts by photographer MA Taher at the National Museum ​on Monday. photo: asif mahmud ovi​

Indigenous life in pictures

The government has doubled the price of rice at trucks of its Open Market Sale or OMS programme to Tk 30 per kilogram to adjust the market price. Photo taken on Monday from Dhaka's Shyamoli. Photo: asif mahmud ove

September 18, 2017

A Bangla Academy delegation places a wreath at the mortal remains of writer and naturalist Dwijen Sharma at the Central Shaheed Minar on Sunday. Photo: tanvir ahammed

Last respects to Dwijen Sharma

Maungdaw resident Mir Kashem carries his sick mother Gulbahar after the crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Cox's Bazar's Teknaf on Saturday. Photo: mostafigur rahman

Rohingya influx continues

Transparency International, Bangladesh or TIB launched a report on the Sustainable Development Goals at media briefing in Dhaka on Saturday. Photo: abdul mannan

September 17, 2017

Newly arrived Rohingya refugees are cleaning bushes on a hill at Palongkhali in Ukhia, Cox's Bazar to build new shelters. Photo: muhammad mostafigur rahman

New shelters on hills

Rohingya refugees scrambled for relief materials at Palongkhali in Ukhia, Cox's Bazar on Saturday as aid workers threw clothes from a truck. Photo: muhammad mostafigur rahman

Desperate for relief

Cabinet members and top civil and military officials gathered at Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Saturday to see Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina off on her departure to New York to attend the 72nd United Nations General Assembly.

September 16, 2017

Candidates take Dhaka University’s ‘Ga’ unit admission test at a centre on Friday. A total of 29,311 students registered for the test this year. Photo: abdul mannan

September 15, 2017

An empty chicken farm next to two Hindu temples near Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar is turned into a makeshift camp for Hindu refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state. Photo: mostafigur rahman

Hindu refugees of Rakhine

Students of 117 Number Nalua Fidar Government Primary School in Kotaliparha Upazila of Gopalganj taking class under open sky. The school building was declared abandoned five years ago.

September 14, 2017

Rohingyas form long lines to wait for biometric registration at the Kutupalong refugee camp. Photo: mostafigur rahman

Biometric registration at refugee camps

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali accompanies a team of Dhaka-based diplomats of 46 countries on a visit to a Rohingya refugee camp at Kutupalong in Cox's Bazar on Wednesday.

Diplomats at Rohingya camps

The driver of a CNG-run autorickshaw pulls his three-wheeler helplessly through the water-clogged Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue after rain on Wednesday afternoon. Photo: abdul mannan

September 13, 2017

A Rohingya man carries an infant to the shore from a boat that arrived in Shah Porir Dwip of Bangladesh from Rasidong in Myanmar. Photo: mostafigur rahman

Rohingyas at Shah Porir Dwip

Women and children made up the majority of Rohingya refugees entering Bangladesh on Tuesday. Photo: mostafigur rahman

Refugee surge at Hariakhali

A craftsman paints the idol of Durga at a Puja Mandap in Dhaka’s Banglabazar on Tuesday. Photo: asaduzzaman pramanik

Durga Puja preparations

A Rohingya woman embraces Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and breaks down in tears at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhia on Tuesday. Photo: habibur rahman

PM at Rohingya camp

A mobile court operates in Dhaka’s Bangla Motor to prevent people jaywalking in areas with an available pedestrian footbridge. Photo: abdul mannan

September 12, 2017

Smoke is seen on the Myanmar's side of border as Rohingyas fleeing the Maungdaw township Rakhine State with their cattle. Photo: mostafigur rahman

Rohingyas flee to Bangladesh with livestock

Villages in Maungdaw area in Rakhine State are set on fire allegedly by the Myanmar Army and other forces. The photo is taken from Shah Parir Dwip in Teknaf. Photo: mostafigur rahman

Rakhine villages burning​

Residents of Rampura's Banasree face a horrible situation on the potholed streets. The hazards rise after rain. The photo is taken on Monday.

Sufferings on rundown roads

Rohingyas fleeing violence in Myanmar are building temporary residences on the Balukhali Hill in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhia. Photo: mostafigur rahman

Rohingyas' makeshift camp at Balukhali

Umme Salma, a ninth grader from Myanmar's Bujidong, was shot in her left leg while fleeing to Bangladesh. She is undergoing treatment at Chittagong Medical College Hospital on Monday. Photo: suman babu

September 11, 2017

Road Transport Minister Obaidul Quader stops traffic to talk to autorickshaw drivers and passengers at Dhaka’s Manik Miah Avenue on Sunday. Photo: asaduzzaman pramanik

Obaidul Quader at BRTA mobile court

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev greets President Md Abdul Hamid at the First OIC Summit on Science and Technology at the ‘Palace of Independence’ in Kazakhstan’s Astana on Sunday. Photo: PID

September 10, 2017

Participants at a seminar titled 'Redefining masculinity' at the BRAC Centre in the capital on Saturday observe that 'men must take the lead in tackling violence against women'.

'Redefining masculinity'

A Malaysian aircraft touches down at Shah Amanat Airport in Chittagong on Saturday with relief materials for the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh as hundreds of thousands flee violence in Myanmar.

September 09, 2017

Ganajagran Mancha takes out a procession at Shahbagh on Friday demanding an end to the persecution and alleged genocide of Rohingyas in Myanmar. Photo: abdul mannan

Calls to end Rohingya persecution

The first elephant calf born in captivity in Bangladesh, at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park in Gazipur on Aug 27, is named 'Ban Madhury' and pictured with its mother 'Mukti Rani' on Friday.

September 08, 2017

Pilgrims return to Dhaka after performing hajj in Saudi Arabia. Photo: tanvir ahammed

Hajj pilgrims return

Members of the Rapid Action Battalion searches a flat on Mirpur’s Mazar Road where a militant suspect set off a series of explosions.

September 07, 2017

The Bangabandhu Memorial Rowing Competition was held on Tuesday on the Kumar River in Gopalganj.

September 06, 2017

Life goes on beside the stinky stagnant water that flooded the road adjacent to Shia Masjid in Mohammadpur. Residents said they had been suffering from the water stagnation for over a month. The photo is taken on Tuesday.

Stagnation without rain

Several explosions trigger a fire at a suspected terror hideout on Mazar Road, lighting up the area at Dhaka's Mirpur. Photo: asif mahmud ove

Terror hideout on Mazar Road

Jatiya Garments Sramik Federation forms a human chain outside the National Press Club on Tuesday to protest the rape and murder of a garment factory worker on a moving bus.

September 05, 2017

The Dhaka residents are returning to the capital after celebrating Eid-ul-Azha with families and relatives in their ancestral homes. This picture is taken from Dhaka's Kamalapur Railway Station on Monday. Photo: asif mahmud ove

Returning to Dhaka routine

Streets in Dhaka are almost deserted on Monday, the first working day after the Eid-ul-Azha holidays. The photo is taken from Shahbagh in the afternoon. Photo: asif mahmud ove

September 04, 2017

Trading of rawhide under way at Azimpur-Lalbagh area a day after the Eid on Sunday. Photo: tanvir ahammed

Eid hide trade

Fire Service and city corporation workers cleaning the street at Science Laboratory area after trading of rawhide from cattle slaughtered on Eid-ul-Azha. Photo: tanvir ahammed

September 03, 2017

Children enjoy a ride at Dhaka Shishu Park a day after the Eid on Sunday. Photo: abdul mannan

Great Eid rejoicing

Children exchange greetings after the Eid congregation at Baitul Mukarram National Mosque on Saturday.

September 02, 2017

The Baitul Mukarram National Mosque held five congregation on Saturday, when Muslims in Bangladesh celebrated the Eid-ul-Azha.

Eid Congregation

Most of the residents have left Dhaka to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha with families and relatives at their ancestral homes. The photo shows a deserted street in front of the Prime Minister's Office on Friday. Photo: abdul mannan

Deserted Dhaka

National flags fly next to flags with 'Eid Mubarak' written on them on the streets of Dhaka before Eid-ul-Azha. Photo: abdul mannan

September 01, 2017

Customers return home with sacrificial animals for Eid-ul-Azha on Friday, the day before the festival. The photo is taken at Mirpur. Photo: tanvir ahammed

Last day of cattle market

Homebound people risk their lives by travelling on the roof of a train to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha with their loved ones. The photo was taken at Dhaka Airport Railway Station on Thursday. Photo: asif mahmud ove

Returning home by train

Hundreds throng the Central Shaheed Minar premises in Dhaka on Thursday to pay their final respects to departed singer Abdul Jabbar. Photo: abdul mannan

Tributes to Abdul Jabbar

The coffin carries remains of Zakia Sultana Rupa who had allegedly been gang-raped and murdered on a moving bus. With court's permission, the remains were exhumed in Tangail in the presence of an executive magistrate on Thursday.

August 31, 2017

Launch passengers are prohibited from travelling on roofs but those rushing to go home before Eid could not care less about the safety rule. Photo taken from the Bangladesh-China Friendship Bridge at Postogola on Wednesday. Photo: asif mahmud ove

The journey home

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina teases top allrounder Shakib Al Hasan during her meeting to congratulate the Bangladesh cricket team after their maisen Test victory over Australia at Dhaka's Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium on Wednesday. Photo: BCB

August 30, 2017

Family members and friends break into tears after learning of the death of singer Abdul Jabbar at Dhaka's Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University on Wednesday.

Singer Abdul Jabbar dies

People desperately try to get space on the roof of trains as they head for their hometowns and villages to spend Eid-Ul-Azha holidays with loved ones. The photo was taken at Dhaka's Kamalapur Railway Station on Tuesday. Photo: abdul mannan

Day 3 of Eid travel

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader visits Dhaka's Sayedabad Bus Terminal on Tuesday to check out on a vigilance team deployed there to prevent drivers from charging commuters extra fare before Eid. Photo: abdul mannan

August 29, 2017

Residents wade through flood waters from Tropical Storm Harvey in Beaumont Place, Houston, Texas. Reuters

Houston underwater

A girl smiles as she looks out a train window at Dhaka's Kamalapur Railway Station. With just few days before Eid-ul-Azha, the joy of travelling on holiday was visible on young faces. Photo: abdul mannan

Arduous Eid journey begins

Actor Ferdous, the goodwill ambassador for a joint project of Dhaka University's TV, film and photography department and the UNDP, speaks to media at a programme titled 'Inclusion of Youth and Minorities for Peace' at the university's TSC on Monday.

August 28, 2017

Lisa Rehr holds her four-year old son Maximus, after they lost their home to Hurricane Harvey, as they await to be evacuated with their belongings from Rockport, Texas, US August 26, 2017. reuters

Hurricane Harvey in Texas

Grave of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam in Dhaka gets swarmed with floral wreaths on Sunday, when the nation observed 41st death anniversary of the national poet. Photo: tanvir ahammed

Homage paid to national poet

Shahida Begum holds her daughters, Tofa and Tohura, at the DMCH. The conjoined twins were separated there a month ago after more than six hours of surgery. Photo: asif mahmud ove

August 27, 2017

All roads lead to the capital for the cattle traders who are bringing in the sacrificial animals to Dhaka cattle markets on the road and riverways ahead of Eid-ul-Azha. Some of them are seen unloading cattle at Postogola Shoshanghat on Saturday. Photo: tanvir ahammed

Cattle market in capital

Myanmar Rohingyas flee for Bangladesh as fresh violence erupted on Friday in the country's Rakhine state. Photo taken on Saturday at a refugee camp in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar.

August 26, 2017

Traders get their cows on boats that will take them to the Raghunathpur Bit Khatal in Chapainawabganj.

Cows arrive from India

The Garment Sramik Trade Union Kendra takes out a procession near the National Press Club to press factory owners into paying workers festival bonus and dues before Eid. Photo: abdul mannan

August 25, 2017

Participants of discussion Children in Media (R-L): UNICEF communication specialist AM Sakil Faizullah, Hello journalist Pritha Pronodona, State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak, bdnews24.com’s Editor-in-Chief Toufique Imrose Khalidi, Ekattor TV chief editor Mozammel Haque Babu, Ekushey TV CEO Manjurul Ahsan Bulbul and Hello coordinator Nahar Mowla.

Children in media

Abdul Khalek Memorial Degree College in Jamalpur’s Dewanganj has been converted into a shelter for flood victims. Photo: asif mahmud ove

Floods in Jamalpur

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hands cheques to family members of policemen slain during the anti-terror operation at Sylhet’s Atia Mahal during a ceremony at her office on Thursday. Photo: PID

August 24, 2017

Sammilito Sanskritik Jote takes out a black-flag procession at Dhaka University to protest a recent comment by Chief Justice SK Sinha, where he used the example of Pakistan's Supreme Court in his ongoing debate with the government over the repeal of a constitutional amendment. Photo: tanvir ahammed

August 23, 2017

Abdur Razzak, fondly known as Nayak Raj, was laid to rest at the Banani graveyard. Photo: tanvir ahammed

Nayak Raj laid to rest

Selina Islam Beauty, wife of murdered Narayanganj councillor Nazrul Islam, holds up the victory sign after the High Court verdict that confirmed death sentences for 15 killers on Tuesday. But of the 26 sentenced to death by trial court, 11 had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment.

August 22, 2017

Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed pays tributes to legendary actor Abdur Razzak at the Central Shaheed Minar premises on Tuesday. Photo: Abdul Mannan

Last respects paid to Nayak Raj

Actor Alamgir and actress Mousumi are seen among film stars and relatives who rushed to United Hospital where Bangla film icon Razzak died on Monday.

Razzak dies

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina chairs a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Offices on Monday. Photo: Saiful Islam Kallol

August 21, 2017

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina comforts a woman during a programme to distribute relief items among flood victims at Dinajpur on Sunday. Photo: PID

August 20, 2017

Many families are living on boats at the flood-affcted Ratanpur village in Gaibandha's Fulchharhi Upazila as their houses have gone under water.

August 19, 2017