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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

Artistes performing a dance routine at the Autumn Festival at Bakultola in Dhaka University's Faculty of Fine Arts on Friday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Autumn Festival

The Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal (BaSad) stages a rally in front of the National Press Club on Friday calling for a fair distribution from any river water-sharing agreement with India and an end to border killings. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

October 04, 2019

Workers collect plastic bottles from a scrapheap in Chattogram's Bakolia. The bottles are then taken to a recycling plant after which the plastic is exported to various countries, including India and China. Photo: Sumon Babu

October 03, 2019

A Dhaka North City Corporation mobile court leads a drive at a kitchen market in the capital's Polashi on Wednesday in a bid to contain the skyrocketting prices of onions. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

October 02, 2019

Two college students fell in the waterlogged Phoenix Road after stepping into an uncovered drain at Fulbaria in Dhaka on Tuesday after hours of rains. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

October 01, 2019

A sailboat is on the Kirtankhola in Barishal amid domination of engine-propelled boats. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

September 30, 2019

TIB Executive Director Iftekharuzzaman speaking at an even in Dhaka on Sunday marking the publication of its report on preparations and relief efforts for the floods earlier this year. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

September 29, 2019

A group of artistes perform a dance routine on occasion of Mahalaya at the capital's Banani on Saturday.

Mahalaya

Freedom fighters and their children took out a procession celebrating the birthday of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka on Saturday.

September 28, 2019

Rickshaws and rickshaw-vans are kept in a DSCC building constructed for a kitchen market in Jatrabari. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

DSCC market is a rickshaw-van garage now

RAB personnel taking expelled Jubo League leader Khaled Mahmud Bhuiyan from a court that granted the law enforcers 10 more days to grill him in custody in two cases over drugs and illegal arms charges on Friday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

September 27, 2019

bdnews24.com Editor-in-Chief Toufique Imrose Khalidi said the influence of Gandhi and Bangabandhu is evident in the ongoing climate protests at the event. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Gandhi-Mujib’s spirits in discussion

Dak Bhaban, the newly built headquarters of the Bangladesh Post Office that looks like a post box, is pictured in this photo captured on Wednesday. It awaits inauguration next month. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

September 26, 2019

Dhaka North City Corporation conducted an eviction drive against illegal structures in Gulshan DNCC Market area on Wednesday.

September 25, 2019

US President Donald Trump addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City, New York, US, September 24, 2019. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

UN General Assembly in New York

The Rapid Action Battalion seized about Tk 50 million in cash, 8kg of gold and six firearms in raids on the residences of local Awami League leaders Enamul Haque, Rupon Bhuiyan, one of their friends and an employee in Dhaka’s Gandaria on Tuesday as the law enforcers widened their crackdown on gambling. Enamul is a shareholder of the Wanderers Club, in which RAB found an illegal casino last week. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Cash, gold at AL leaders' vaults

Students using bamboos to climb down from the first and second floors of the Daffodil University in Dhaka's Kalabagan after a fire was reported on Tuesday.

September 24, 2019

An activist of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, who was injured in attacks by the Bangladesh Chhatra League on the Dhaka University campus, is taken to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Monday.

September 23, 2019

Dhaka North City Corporation workers bulldozing an entrance and staircases built illegally on the sidewalks at Section-3 in Uttara on Sunday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Drive to free footpaths

Police conducting a raid on the Dilkusha Sporting Club in the capital's Motijheel as part of the crackdown on illegal gambling establishments on Sunday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

September 22, 2019

RAB handing over custody of contractor GK Shamim, who identifies himself as a Jubo League leader, to Gulshan Police on Saturday following his arrest in a raid as part of the government's crackdown of illegal gambling establishments. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

September 21, 2019

RAB Media Wing Director Lt Col Sarwar Bin Kashem and Executive Magistrate Sarwoer Alam briefing the media after a raid on the business of SM Golam Kibria Shamim, a government contractor who identifies himself as a Jubo League leader, at Dhaka's Niketan on Friday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

September 20, 2019

Jubo League leader Khaled Mahmud Bhuiyan being taken to a court from the Gulshan Police Station for a remand-hearing on Thursday. He has been implicated in three cases under the firearms, drugs and money laundering legislation after his arrest for running an illegal casino in Fakirapool on Wednesday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

September 19, 2019

An agreement is signed on Wednesday to appoint consultants for a Dhaka Power Distribution Company development project. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

September 18, 2019

A Rapid Action Battalion mobile court has found expired medicines stored at the warehouse of Sylvan Trading Company in the capital's Hatirpool during a drive on Tuesday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Selling tainted drugs

A worker displays textbooks at a printing press at Sutrapur in Old Dhaka. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Time for textbooks

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sits in the cockpit of Biman's newly-inaugurated Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner 'Rajhangsha' at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Tuesday.

September 17, 2019

Cattle grazing on the banks of the Meghna River in Brahmanbaria's Bancharampur Upazila on Monday. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

September 16, 2019

A woman crossing a broken staircase of the footbridge with her sons near the flower market at Shahbagh in Dhaka. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Dangerous footbridge

Fishermen are drenched in rain as they catch fishes in the Meghna River. This photo was clicked in Munshiganj's Gazaria. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

September 15, 2019

The outfield of Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium in Narayanganj resembles an abandoned water body. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium in a sorry state

Students call for a reduction in carbon emissions at a climate change campaign at the Boishakhi playground in the capital's Rayerbazar on Saturday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Call for carbon emission cut

Members of Bangladesh Scouts conduct a public awareness campaign on cleanliness organised by 'Dettol Harpic Porichchonno Bangladesh' at the Kalyanpur Bus Stand in Dhaka on Saturday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

September 14, 2019

Candidates taking the 'Ga' unit exam for admission to Dhaka University's Faculty of Business Education on Friday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

DU admission tests begin

Passengers waiting for trains on a platform of Airport Railway Station in Dhaka amid rain on Friday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

September 13, 2019

It is difficult to pass the main street in Section-12 of Dhaka's Mirpur without covering one's nose and mouth from dust as construction of metro rail is under way. This photo was clicked on Thursday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Made to suffer for development

Waterlogging after heavy rains brings havoc to the people at Muradpur in Chattogram on Thursday. Photo: Suman Babu

September 12, 2019

A motorist is arguing with a traffic policeman on being asked why he moved to the zebra crossing, blocking the path for pedestrians to cross the street at Gulshan-2 in Dhaka on Wednesday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Defiant pedestrians, drivers

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina cutting a cake while inaugurating the Community Bank Bangladesh Limited of Police Welfare Trust through video conferencing from the Ganabhaban on Wednesday. Photo: Saiful Islam Kallol

September 11, 2019

Shia Muslims flagging off the Tazia procession from Old Dhaka's Hossaini Dalan Imambara on Tuesday to observe Ashura in remembrance of the martyrdom of the Prophet’s grandson Imam Hussain in Karbala. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Ashura procession

Shia Muslims flagging off the Tazia procession from Old Dhaka's Hossaini Dalan Imambara to mark Ashura on Tuesday amidst tight security. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

September 10, 2019

Ahead of Durga Puja, the largest festival for Hindus in Bangladesh, a craftsman is busy building idols of the goddess in Dhaka’s Banglabazar on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Preparing for Durga Puja

TIB Executive Director Iftekharuzzaman speaks during the launch of a report titled 'Ways to overcome obstacles for good governance in registration and services sector of land documents' at the MIDAS Centre in Dhaka on Monday.

September 09, 2019

Catkins or phragmite grass flowers which have bloomed by the end of the Bengali month of Bhadra on the fields of Dhaka's Aftabnagar draw crowds every day. This photo was clicked on Sunday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

September 08, 2019

Water lilies collected from Arial Beel in Munshiganj are kept in bundles on a boat. Each bundle of 52 water lilies will be up for sale at Tk 15-20. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Arial Beel’s water lily

The Dhaka North City Corporation installs a mobile toilet for slum-dwelling women in Dhaka’s Khilgaon area. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

September 07, 2019

Artistes of Satyen Sen Shilpi Goshthhi performing a dance sequence at a programme to celebrate Sharat or autumn at Bakultala of Dhaka University's Faculty of Fine Arts on Friday.

Autumn celebrations

A group of teachers of institutions under the government’s MPO scheme in Dhaka demonstrating outside the National Press Club in the capital demanding transfer to their home districts. The protesters say they get Tk 1,000 as house rent per month, with which it is impossible to pay the landlords of the capital.

September 06, 2019

The hawkers illegally occupy half of the road, leaving narrow space for traffic. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Half of the road after walkways encroached

Raushon Ershad attends a media briefing at her residence on Thursday amid the ongoing rift over the leadership of the party. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

September 05, 2019

The U-loop in Dhaka's Rampura is out of bounds for vehicles pulled by humans, but school van pullers breach the rule every day. This photo of a man pulling a school van while the boys are pushing it to help him was clicked on Wednesday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Boys pushing school van

Volunteers displaying a pack of Bashanti sanitary napkins produced by Bidyanondo Foundation. A pack of the napkins is up for sale at Tk 5. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Sanitary napkins for Tk 5

Diplomats from the US, UK and some other countries emerging from a meeting with Jatiya Oikya Front leaders, including Dr Kamal Hossain, at the residence of BNP leader Abdul Moyeen Khan in Dhaka’s Gulshan.

September 04, 2019

Activists of Naripokkho, a women's rights platform, forming a human chain to raise public awareness on rape and sexual abuse in the capital's Dhanmondi on Tuesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

September 03, 2019

Salma Begum along with her husband is operating a fruit shop at Korail slum in the Dhaka’s Mohakhali area for last four years. She spends more than half of a day at the shop, allowing her husband to engage in other works. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Women workers at Korail slum

Dhaka North City Corporation demolishes an illegal building on the corner of a park in Mohammadpur's Taj Mahal Road on Sunday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Uproar over eviction drive

A physician checks a patient's condition during a healthcare campaign at Korail slum in the capital's Mohakhali area on Sunday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Healthcare campaign at Korail slum

Parts of two illegal buildings were demolished by Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority or BIWTA during an eviction drive on the banks of the Buriganga River at Kholamora Ghat in Kamrangirchar in Januray. The debris from the structures has yet to be removed. The photo was taken on Saturday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

September 01, 2019

The colour of water in the Banani Lake of Dhaka has turned into blue due to pollution from waste materials dumped into the water-body. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Banani Lake losing colour

Stagnant water in the artificial fountains, as seen on Dhaka’s Manik Miah Avenue on Saturday, is a potential breeding ground for Aedes mosquito, the carrier of dengue virus. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

August 31, 2019

Boys jumping in the Buriganga river from a dredging pipe at Kamrangirchar in Dhaka on Friday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Water fun

The mother of Ishraq Ahmed, a Bangladeshi student of McGill University in Canada who went missing from Dhaka's Dhanmondi on Aug 26 in 2017, cries as she holds a photo of her son at a discussion in the National Press Club in Dhaka on Friday marking the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Remembering the 'forcibly disappeared'

Children's organisation Khelaghar organised a discussion at the Asiatic Society in Dhaka on Friday marking the National Mourning Day. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

August 30, 2019

Women are also among those known as typical jaywalkers in Dhaka who sneak through narrow gaps between buses to cross street. This photo was taken at Paltan on Thursday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Reckless driving continues

The dwellers of a slum near Chalantika bend in Dhaka's Mirpur Section-7 have been staying under the open sky for 13 days after losing everything in blaze that ravaged hundreds of shanties. This photo was clicked on Thursday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

August 29, 2019

The Dhaka-Narayanganj train moving on the tracks in the capital's Jurain Railgate on Wednesday amid debris after hundreds of illegally built shops are demolished in an eviction drive. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Railways land recovered

Transparency International, Bangladesh or TIB Executive Director Iftekharuzzaman speaking at the publication of its research report Parliament Watch on the 10th national parliament in Dhaka on Wednesday.

August 28, 2019

The grave of poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, next to the Dhaka University Central Mosque, is covered with wreaths on his 43rd death anniversary on Tuesday.

Tribute to Kazi Nazrul Islam

Worn-out vehicles long abandoned in front of the Social Services Department and the social welfare ministry in Tejgaon are potential breeding grounds for Aedes mosquitoes amid a massive dengue outbreak across Bangladesh. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

August 27, 2019

The hog plums are being washed with water in a dish or plastic bowl to give them a fresh look. However, the purity of the water is also questionable. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Amra (hog plum) sale in unhygienic environment

Officials of the Bangladesh-India joint steering committee on power address the media after a high level meeting at the Intercontinental Hotel in Dhaka on Monday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

August 26, 2019

Haji Lal Mia Lane at North Muradpur in Dhaka's Kadamtali can be mistaken for anything from a water body to garbage dumping site. This horrible condition for the residents of the area due to waterlogging has been continuing for around three years. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Waterlogged for 3 years

Students scamper across the busy Mirpur-10 intersection in Dhaka with vehicles whizzing by them. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Students disregarding road risks

A group of students demonstrating at the alter of the Raju Memorial Sculpture on the Dhaka University campus on Sunday demanding permanent rules to launch separate supplementary tests in all academic years for the science faculties.

August 25, 2019

Sculptures on Airport Road in Dhaka portray Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s historic speech on Mar 7, 1971. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Liberation War sculptures

The mortal remains of Prof Mozzaffar Ahmad are placed at the Central Shaheed Minar on Saturday, with many politicians calling his death the end of an era. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Final farewell to Prof Mozzaffar

A bus crushes after falling into a ditch from a bridge on the Dhaka-Faridpur Highway in Faridpur’s Dhulodi, killing at least eight people and injuring 20 others on Saturday.

August 24, 2019

Protesters form a human chain to demand justice for the murder of Asma Akter in a train compartment in Dhaka.

August 23, 2019

Stagnant water on the Sarkar Bari’s Eidgah ground almost touches the windows of Muradpur Adarsha High School. Mosquitoes breed in the filthy water. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

School premises turn mosquito breeding place

The slum-dwellers are spending the night pulling the mosquito nets on the open floors of their shanties destroyed by Friday’s devastating fire. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Chalantika slum-dwellers living under the open sky

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sits in the cockpit of Biman’s newly-inaugurated Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, ‘Gaangchil’. Photo: Yeasin Kabir Joy

August 22, 2019

Several victims, including women, wounded in the Aug 21, 2004 grenade attack place wreaths at a monument at Bangabandhu Avenue in Dhaka remembering those killed in the carnage on Wednesday, the 15th anniversary of the massacre. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Remembering Aug 21 attack victims

Stagnant water in big holes created on a playground at Shahjahanpur Railway Colony in Dhaka when it was turned into a cattle market before Eid-ul-Azha has become bleeding grounds of mosquitoes amid a massive dengue outbreak across Bangladesh. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Playground turns mosquito breeding place

A member of a homeless family using a mosquito net even in daytime on a playground at Shahjahanpur Railway Colony in Dhaka to save himself from mosquito bite amid a dengue outbreak across Bangladesh. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

August 21, 2019

DNCC Mayor Atiqul Islam takes part in an event to launch a campaign to annihilate Aedes larvae. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

‘Combing operation’ to combat dengue menace

A motorcycle rider has been killed and another injured when a bus veered out of control and ploughed into the stationary vehicle while descending a flyover in Chattogram's Postarpar. Photo: Suman Babu

August 20, 2019

Workers loading a truck bound for a tannery with rawhides preserved with salt at a warehouse in Old Dhaka's Posta on Monday morning. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Rawhide trade starts

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen greeting India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on his arrival at Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on a three-day trip on Monday.

August 19, 2019

Relatives waiting in long queues for results of tests on patients, mostly with dengue fever, at the Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital in Dhaka on Sunday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Dengue scenario at Suhrawardy Hospital

Residents of Chalantika slum in Dhaka's Mirpur, now homeless after a devastating fire on Friday, receiving food being distributed by local public representatives on Sunday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Mirpur slum dwellers go homeless

The elevated way for metro rail is visible from Mirpur Section 10 roundabout to Section 11 in Dhaka. This photo was clicked on Sunday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

August 18, 2019

Three playgrounds in Old Dhaka’s Gandaria are yet to be fit for the children to play on Saturday, days after the grounds were used as cattle markets before Eid-ul-Azha. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

August 17, 2019

Slum dwellers join members of the Fire Service and Civil Defence in their efforts to put out a fire that destroyed hundreds of shanties at Mirpur in Dhaka on Friday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Mirpur slum goes up in flames

One or two tanneries are buying rawhide of cattle slaughtered on Eid-ul-Azha this year, but not like they did after the festival in previous years. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

No rush in tanneries in high season

Passengers who have returned to Dhaka after celebrating Eid-ul-Azha with their families and relatives back home getting off buses in Shyamoli Technical area on Friday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Holidaymakers returning to Dhaka

A group of crows swoop down on a squirrel as it gets off a tree in search of food in wastes in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka on Friday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

August 16, 2019

Patients with dengue fever lie inside mosquito nets in the Mugda Medical College Hospital in Dhaka on Thursday. The number of new patients has started to rise again after a drop during Eid holidays.

Dengue cases on the rise after Eid

President Md Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pay their respects to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Dhanmondi Road No. 32 on his 44th death anniversary on Thursday. Photo: Saiful Islam Kallol

Remembering the founding father

A worker carrying rawhides after applying salt out of a warehouse in Dhaka's Posta. These will be transported to tanneries. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

August 15, 2019

Blood-stained water streaming down a street in old Dhaka's Bangshal area amid rains on Wednesday, two days after Eid-ul-Azha.

August 14, 2019

Workers applying salt on rawhides for preservation at Posta in Old Dhaka on Tuesday, a day after the Eid. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Preserving hides after Eid slaughtering

Visitors crowded outside the giraffe cage at Dhaka zoo in Mirpur on Tuesday, a day after the Eid-ul-Azha. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Eid holidaymakers at Dhaka zoo

Holidaymakers suffered while returning to Dhaka as speedboat and launch operations were suspended on the Kathalbari-Shimulia route due to inclement weather on Tuesday, a day after the Eid-ul-Azha.

August 13, 2019

'Ayra', a toddler undergoing treatment for dengue fever at the Dhaka Shishu Hospital, playing with her elder brother on the Eid day. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Down with dengue, Eid in hospitals

Muslims hugging and greeting each other after offering prayers at Eid-ul-Azha congregation at the National Eidgah ground on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Congregation at Eidgah

Worshippers praying at the second Eid-ul-Azha congregation at Baitul Mukarram on Monday. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Eid congregation at Baitul Mukarram

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hosted an event at the Ganabhaban in Dhaka on Monday to exchange greetings on Eid-ul-Azha. Photo: PID

August 12, 2019