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A museum called Upside Down BD has been launched with everything upside down - a house, an office with real objects, and more - to give the visitors a new experience of optical illusion. The museum at Lalmatia's Block C in Dhaka, said to be the first of its kind in Bangladesh, is open from 2pm-10pm every day from Tuesday to Saturday. This photo was taken on Wednesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

June 19, 2019

A fire triggered from an oil lorry burnt parts of a filling station and some adjacent buildings at Shyamoli in Dhaka on Tuesday before fire fighters tamed the blaze after about half an hour's battle. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

June 18, 2019

Former Sonagazi OC Moazzem Hossain, who was arrested on charges of violating the Digital Security Act in connection with the murder of madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi, appeared before the Bangladesh Cyber Tribunal on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

June 17, 2019

Mercantile Bank Chairman AKM Shahid Reza addresses a media briefing on the institution's 20th founding anniversary to highlight its achievements and future projects on Sunday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

June 16, 2019

Passengers get on and off a bus in the middle of a street at Mirpur-10 intersection. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Chaos in Mirpur

A woman enjoys some moments of rainy season on the Bangla Academy premises in Dhaka on Saturday. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

The first Ashar morning

Artistes perform at an event to mark the arrival of monsoon in the Bangla Academy premises on Saturday. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Monsoon arrives

FBCCI President Sheikh Fazle Fahim speaks at a press conference in Dhaka on Saturday about its views on the proposed budget for 2019-20. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

June 15, 2019

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina taking questions at a news conference on the proposed 2019-20 national budget in Dhaka's Bangabandhu International Conference Centre on Friday. Photo: Saiful Islam Kallol

June 14, 2019

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal emerging from a cabinet meeting after signing the approved national budget for fiscal 2019-20 on Thursday. Photo: PID

Budget 2019-20

Twenty-six python babies hatched from eggs kept in a hand-made incubator for 60 days at Chattogram Zoo on Thursday. Photo: Suman Babu

June 13, 2019

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen speaking to the media after briefing Dhaka-based diplomats on the latest situation of the Rohingya refugee crisis at the state guesthouse Padma on Wednesday.

June 12, 2019

Architecture students of BRAC University and BUET have made a play house for children with bamboo at Basila in Dhaka's Mohammadpur following a proposal by LEEDO, an organisation for street children. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Bamboo playhouse for children

Relatives mourning as housewife 'Jiasmin' died at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital's burns unit after she reportedly set herself on fire following torture by her husband in Munshiganj's Srinagar.

June 11, 2019

Madinabagh Canal connects Basabo, Kadamtala and Jirani canals at Manda in Dhaka's Mugda. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Garbage-filled Madinabagh Canal sees no change

Pollution at the capital's recreational hub Hatirjheel is on the rise as a foul stench pervades the area. This photo was taken from Tejgaon's Kunipara on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

June 10, 2019

Many returnees started walking after arriving at Dhaka's Sadarghat Launch Terminal on Sunday as a paucity of public transport has hit Dhaka after Eid-ul-Fitr holidays. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Return to Dhaka continues

The amusement hotspots around Dhaka are overcrowded four days after Eid-ul-Fitr on Sunday. This photo is taken from Narsinghdi’s Dream Holiday Park. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

June 09, 2019

Residents arrive in Mirpur near Gabtoli Bus Terminal as they return to Dhaka on Saturday after celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr with their relatives in their hometowns and villages. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Returning to Dhaka after Eid

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned to Dhaka after an 11-day tri-nation of Japan, Saudi Arabia and Finland on Saturday. She was received at the airport by her cabinet colleagues and Awami League leaders. Photo: PID

June 08, 2019

Different types of aircraft are on display at the BAF Museum in Dhaka's Agargaon. This photo was taken on Friday when visitors overcrowded the museum after Eid-ul-Fitr. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Eid celebrations at BAF Museum

Residents have begun returning to Dhaka after spending the Eid-ul-Fitr holidays with friends and relatives back in their town and village homes. This photo was taken from Kamalapur Railway Station on Friday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

June 07, 2019

People of different age groups crowding Bangladesh National Zoo in Dhaka's Mirpur a day after Eid-ul-Fitr on Thursday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Eid crowd at zoo

Two buses were being driven recklessly during an alleged race on the road near Bangla School in Dhaka’s Mirpur Section No 11 on Thursday. They trampled an autorickshaw and a rickshaw. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

June 06, 2019

Many braved rains and waterlogging to travel in Dhaka during the Eid-ul-Fitr. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Waterlogged Eid in Dhaka

Devotees perform their prayers at the Eid congregation in Baitul Mukarram National Mosque on Wednesday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Eid congregation at Baitul Mukarram

Rains failed to stop people from going out to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr in Dhaka. This photo was taken from Hatirjheel on Wednesday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

June 05, 2019

A magistrate’s car was torched reportedly by Eid holidaymakers agitated by traffic jam at Kalihati on the Dhaka-Tangail Highway on Tuesday.

June 04, 2019

Some ticket officials are idling away their time due to the low amount of passengers at the Gabtoli Bus Terminal. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Deserted bus terminals

Dhaka’s streets were heavily congested with traffic on Monday, the last working day before Eid. The photo was taken from Tejgaon area. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

June 03, 2019

A Palestinian woman sells traditional cakes called Ma'mool at a sweets shop ahead of Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Nablus, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank June 2, 2019. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini

Eid celebration in different countries

A RAB mobile court fined Nando’s, Khazana, Khana Khazana, BBQ, Spitfire, and Saltz restaurants in Dhaka’s Gulshan Tk 2 million in a drive on Sunday for serving stale and unhealthy food and using chemicals. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

June 02, 2019

A girl with her parents is on the way to the village home to celebrate the Eid with relatives. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Eid journey by train

Muslims offer prayers at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque in Dhaka on Shab-e-Qadr or Lailatul Qadr on Saturday night.

June 01, 2019

People have begun leaving Dhaka to spend Eid holidays with friends and families. This photo was taken at Gabtoli Bus Terminal on Friday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Eid journey by bus

Traders who sell vegetables and fruits on rickshaw vans set up a makeshift market on the street at Naya Paltan in Dhaka every Friday after Juma’a prayers targeting Muslim worshippers as customers. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

May 31, 2019

Eid holidaymakers scrambling to catch a train at Kamalapur Railway Station. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Eid travel by train begins

An organisation named COAST formed a human chain in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka on Thursday demanding Tk 8,000 in allowances per month for poor fishermen during the fishing ban in the coastal area.

May 30, 2019

A mobile court of the Rapid Action Battalion or RAB fined a number of eateries in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi on Wednesday for serving stale food and using industrial colour to dye food.

May 29, 2019

A customer trying a tupi or prayer cap at a shop at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque market ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Attar, tupi, Janamaz

The Islamic Foundation arranges Iftar for about 3,000 people daily at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque in Dhaka during the Ramadan. This photo was taken on Tuesday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

May 28, 2019

With the ICC World Cup in England and Wales looming large, fans of the Tigers flocked to footpath shops in Dhaka's Gulistan to buy replica jerseys of the Bangladesh cricket team.

May 27, 2019

Ekattorer Ghatok Dalal Nirmul Committee addresses the Islamic State’s latest threats and activities in Bangladesh at a media briefing at the National Press Club on Sunday.

May 26, 2019

People take a rickshaw ride on the street from Sayedabad Bus Terminal to Janapath Sarak in Dhaka as it goes under knee-deep water after Saturday rains. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Waterlogging at Sayedabad

Flowers cover the grave of Kazi Nazrul Islam in Dhaka got as people and different organisations paid respect to the national poet on his 120th birth anniversary on Saturday.

May 25, 2019

Pedestrians sneaking through a fence raised to stop them from crossing the street in New Market area of Dhaka on Friday . Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Risky street crossing

Muslims gather more in number at mosques for prayers in Dhaka during the Ramadan than they do at any other time of the year. This photo of Muslims offering prayers on a street outside a mosque was taken from Karwan Bazar on Friday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

May 24, 2019

Craftswomen busy at Karchupi work on saris at Mirpur’s Benarashi Palli before Eid. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Eid Karchupi work rush

Workers repairing a rundown launch ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr rush of holidaymakers in Dhaka's Keraniganj on Thursday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

May 23, 2019

The long wait is over—her smile says it all. This woman has secured tickets to her desired destination for Eid. This photo was taken at Dhaka's Kamalapur Railway Station on Wednesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Advance Eid train tickets

Both sides of the Buriganga Bridge in Dhaka’s Dhupkhola go under sewage water due to the deep holes created on the road as it has not been repaired for a long time. This photo was taken on Wednesday.

May 22, 2019

Members of Nirapad Sarak Andolan demonstrating outside the National Press Club in Dhaka on Tuesday demanding justice for Adnan Tasin, a college student killed in a road accident in the capital on Feb 11, and measures to ensure road safety.

May 21, 2019

The Ananda Dairy Farm in Old Dhaka sells cow milk at Tk 80 per litre. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Race for cow milk

Interns and general students form a human chain in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka on Monday, demanding government efforts to help Unani, Ayurvedic and homeopathic medicines. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

May 20, 2019

Dhaka Metropolitan Police conducted mobile court drive against adulterated and unhealthy food in Mirpur on Sunday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Drive against unhygienic food

A mobile court of Dhaka Metropolitan Police fined Prince Hotel and Restaurant at Mirpur Tk 300,000 on Sunday for preparing food in an unhygienic environment. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

May 19, 2019

WASA water at Paterbagh in Dhaka’s Kadamtali is so much filled with rust from old iron pipes that it can easily be mistaken for orange juice. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

May 18, 2019

Jamdani sari traders passing busy time at a makeshift market on the bank of the Shitalakkhya river at Demra in Dhaka on Friday morning. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Jamdani sari market

Gang Shalik or bank mynas searching for food from Boro crops harvested in Chalan Beel in Pabna’s Faridpur. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

May 17, 2019

A woman holding her bare baby close to an open window of a bus on Topkhana Road in Dhaka on Thursday as heat wave continues to scorch Bangladesh. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

May 16, 2019

Editors Guild, Bangladesh President Toufique Imrose Khalidi addressing the organisation’s maiden public event at a Dhaka hotel on Wednesday.

First public event of Editors Guild

Awami League leaders welcoming their General Secretary Obaidul Quader at the Dhaka airport on Wednesday on his return from Singapore after treatment. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Obaidul Quader is back

Workers drying vermicelli in Chattogram’s Chaktai on Wednesday ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr. But the process raises the question as to how much healthy the product can be. Photo: Suman Babu

May 15, 2019

Workers are busy readying litchi for sale in the market. Every hundred litchi is being sold for Tk 400 to Tk 500. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Ripe litchi of Sonargoan

Operators painting the buses anew ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr rush. This photo was taken at Bhanga Press area in Dhaka's Jatrabarhi on Tuesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

May 14, 2019

A mobile court, led by the Dhaka North City Corporation, raided the capital's Karwan Bazar wholesale market on Monday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

May 13, 2019

Bidyananda Foundation volunteers distributing packets of Iftar among children at Bhashantek slum in Dhaka on Sunday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Free Iftar

Leftist Democratic Alliance leaders gather in front of the National Press Club as they took out a procession towards Bangladesh Bank on Sunday.

May 12, 2019

Buddhist monks distribute Iftar at the Dharmarajik Vihara in Dhaka's Sabujbagh. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Iftar at Buddhist Vihara

Even heavy pushing fails to pull water sometimes through the tube wells at the slum along the tracks near Moghbazar level crossing.

Water crisis deepens at slum

Jute mill workers blocked the street at Demra in Dhaka for the fourth day on Wednesday for a nine-point charter of demand, including implementation of the wage commission.

May 11, 2019

Many worshipers offered prayers under the scorching sun outside the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque in Dhaka as the mosque was filled up during the first Juma'a prayers of this Ramadan. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

May 10, 2019

A RAB mobile court conducting a drive on Habiba Vermicelli factory at Ashrafabandh in Dhaka's Kamrangirchar on Thursday.

One vermicelli factory, different brands

Sugarcane molasses at Karwan Bazar mostly come in the form of liquids or blocks. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Growing demand for molasses in Ramadan

Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sayeed Khokon checks the price list of essentials at the kitchen market in Dhaka’s Hatirpool on Thursday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

May 09, 2019

Commuters suffered for the third day on Wednesday as jute mill workers blocked the street at Demra in Dhaka for a nine-point charter of demand, including implementation of the wage commission recommendations.

May 08, 2019

Customers buzzing in Chawkbazar Iftar shops in Dhaka on the first day of Ramadan on Tuesday. Photo: Mustafigur Rahman

Iftar at Chawkbazar

People trying to pull a covered van up from a hole on the rundown Dhaka-Narayanganj-Pagla road under the Postogola Bridge in Dhaka. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

May 07, 2019

Motijheel Ideal School and College students ecstatic after getting their SSC results. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

SSC results published

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina joined from London the results publication event of Secondary School Certificate and equivalent exams-2019 via videoconference on Monday. Education Minister Dipu Moni was present at the event.

May 06, 2019

Trading Corporation of Bangladesh has started selling essential commodities at fair prices ahead of Ramadan under a scheme, called Truck Sale, for the poor. This photo shows customers crowding around a truck to buy products under the TCB programme in the street next to the National Press Club in Dhaka on Sunday.

May 05, 2019

More than 200 homes were destroyed in Bhola’s Sadar Upazila on Friday night after Fani lashed the coastal district of Bangladesh.

Cyclone Fani hits Bangladesh

Bangladesh Economic Association organises a reception for Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad on winning the Independence Award 2019 in Dhaka on Saturday.

May 04, 2019

Lighter vessels took shelter on the Karnaphuli River in Chattogram as the Bay of Bengal got rough under the influence of cyclonic storm Fani on Friday. Photo: Suman Babu

Fani leaves sea rough

The launch terminal in Dhaka's Sadarghat was empty on Friday as inland river transport operations have been suspended due to cyclonic storm Fani.

May 03, 2019

River transportation comes to a halt as the BIWTA suspended services on all routes due to cyclonic storm Fani that is likely to hit the coastal belts of Bangladesh on Friday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

May 02, 2019

Female workers taking part in all sorts of work at Moonlight plastic recycling factory in Dhaka's Bhatara. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Unstoppable women

Labourers carrying sand onshore from a trawler at Hasnabad in Dhaka's South Keraniganj. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

No May Day break

The National Garments Workers Federation brings out a procession in Dhaka to commemorate the historic May Day on Wednesday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

May Day 2019

Workers load a truck with sacks of mustard after unloading them from a ship in Chattogram on Tuesday. They earn Tk 500 to Tk 600 a day. Photo: Suman Babu

May 01, 2019

Bangladesh Teachers Association forms a human chain in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka on Tuesday demanding the cancellation of notice on a 10 percent salary cut for their welfare trust and retirement fund.

April 30, 2019

Workers carrying dead bodies of suspects after blasts during a RAB operation on a militant hideout on Road No. 8 at Metro Housing in Bosila near Mohammadpur on Monday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Raid on Bosila terror hideout

The mercury is touching almost 40 degrees Celsius in Dhaka. In the savage summer, low-income group is hit the hardest by the heat wave. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Sweltering heat leaves people gasping

A group of investors staged a token hunger strike in front of the Dhaka Stock Exchange on Monday protesting against continuous downturn of the capital market.

April 29, 2019

Hurricane lanterns are hung for drying after colouring at a factory in Dhaka's Kamrangirchar. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Hurricane lantern factory

A student crossing the bridge which is partly filled with thick smoke billowing from burning plastic garbage. This photo was taken on Sunday from the Lohar Bridge area in Kamrangirchar. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Pollution from burning plastic garbage

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam speaking at a discussion organised by the Diplomatic Correspondents Association, Bangladesh (DCAB) on the Rohingya refugee crisis in Dhaka on Sunday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

April 28, 2019

Craftsmen are spending busy time at the boutique houses ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Boutique work before Eid

Shoppers at risky Dhaka New Super Market during repair work. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Repair of Dhaka New Super Market

Kamal Mia riding a bicycle collects empty canisters from different places in Dhaka and sells those at Tk 20 each in Old Dhaka’s Nimtali market. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

April 27, 2019

Rust from old iron pipes is blamed for murky water supplied by WASA to Rasulpur in Dhaka's Jurain. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

'Pure' WASA water

Dalit Women's Forum formed a human chain in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka on Friday demanding a rise in social safety net allocation for the caste in the national budget.

April 26, 2019

Banalata Express, the first high-speed nonstop train on Dhaka-Rajshahi route launched on Thursday, will carry passengers on 12 compartments. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

April 25, 2019

Tearful relatives look on as the body of Zayan Chowdhary, the Bangladeshi boy killed in the Sri Lanka Easter Sunday attacks, is being carried out of their Banani home for a Namaz-e-Janaza and burial on Wednesday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Final farewell to Zayan

A vehicle carrying the body of 8-year-old Zayan Chowdhary from the airport to the house of his grandfather Awami League leader Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim at Banani in Dhaka on Wednesday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Zayan’s remains flown to Dhaka

Workers’ organisations demonstrating at Jurain Graveyard in Dhaka, where most of the victims of Rana Plaza collapse were buried, demanding compensation on the sixth anniversary of the disaster on Wednesday.

Rana Plaza disaster 6 years on

Dhaka South City Corporation launched a 12-day Municipal Tax Fair 2019 for the first time at the Nagar Bhaban building in Dhaka on Wednesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Municipal Tax Fair 2019

The BIWTA knocked down more than 50 structures, including two markets, built illegally on the bank of the Turag River at Tongi on the 32nd day of its ongoing drive to free the Dhaka rivers from encroachment on Wednesday.

April 24, 2019

A view of the Shimulia Haat, a market by the Shitalakkhya in Narayanganj’s Rupganj. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

A riverside rural market

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina cries as she holds her relative Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, a ruling Awami League leader who lost his minor grandson in Sri Lanka bombings, at Dhaka’s Shahjalal International Airport on return from Brunei on Tuesday.

April 23, 2019

Security was beefed up in Dhaka on Monday, the Shab-e-Barat holiday, in the wake of the deadly Easter Sunday bomb blasts in churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka.

April 22, 2019

Iron pipes are used as poles to stop concrete coating from falling from the ceiling of the Capital Supermarket in Dhaka's Farmgate. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Risky Capital Supermarket

Christian devotees hold prayers at dawn at the T&T field near Manik Miah Avenue in Dhaka on Easter Sunday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Easter Sunday

Children play at the Crescent Lake in Dhaka's parliament area amid scorching summer heat on Sunday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

April 21, 2019

These breads of different designs for Shab-e-Barat in Old Dhaka shops are up for sale for Tk 150 to Tk 500. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Baking Shab-e-Barat breads

Yasin has been making hand fans for 60 years but decided to stop next year as the demand has dropped. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Hand fans of Solmaid

GA Academy forms a human chain in Feni town on Saturday for exemplary punishment of the killers of madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi.

April 20, 2019

Visitors looking around a national photo exhibition, Ruposhi Bangla, at the Shilpakala Academy.

Beauty of Bangla through lens

Autistic children drawing pictures at an art camp at the Dhaka University's Faculty of Fine Arts on Friday.

Art camp for autistic children

Residents of Demra’s Konaparha in Dhaka staged a human-chain protest on Friday demanding maximum punishment of those involved in rapes and murders of two school girls in January.

April 19, 2019

Nine seats are supposed to be reserved for women on every bus, but they are often told, 'No seat,' when they try to get on buses. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Women battle public transport harassment

A number of goats were killed in a fire at the Malibagh Kitchen Market in Dhaka on Thursday.

Malibagh Kitchen Market on fire

Students of Nalanda High School staged a human-chain demonstration outside the Chhayanaut Sanskriti Bhaban against the killing of Feni madrasa girl Nusrat Jahan Rafi.

April 18, 2019

Workers sorting hilsas of different sizes at the Fishery Ghat in Chattogram. Photo: Sumon Babu

Hilsa at Fishery Ghat

The RAJUK has sealed off the BGMEA Bhaban at Hatirjheel for demolition. This photo of the locked main gate was taken on Wednesday.

April 17, 2019

Fire fighters douse flames of the burning Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France April 15, 2019. REUTERS/Charles Platiau

Burning Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

Sadarghat launch terminal looked empty on Tuesday due to the indefinite strike called by the water transport workers. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Water transport strike

RAJUK officials sealed off the illegally constructed BGMEA building at Hatirjheel in Dhaka on Tuesday for demolition after the occupants removed their stuff.

April 16, 2019