Photos

A mobile court of the district administration clears illegal establishments on the foothills of Akbar Shah area in Chattogram. Photo: Suman Babu

May 20, 2018

Mahamaya Lake in Chittagong’s Mirsharai Upazila has become one of the attractive tourist spots surrounded by mountains. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Beauty of Mahamaya Lake

A German couple is on a world tour by bicycle. Tandem-Tagebuch and Ute und Konrad have covered 22 countries. They are now in Dhaka. The photo was taken on Saturday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

May 19, 2018

US actor George Clooney and his wife, lawyer Amal Clooney arrive with guests to the wedding of Britain's Prince Harry to Meghan Markle in Windsor, Britain, May 19, 2018. Reuters

Prince Harry and Meghan's wedding

There is no end to the variety of food that one can savour in Chawkbazar.

Iftar brings back Chawkbazar buzz

A garden is being built at Hatirjheel in Moghbazar area. The authorities expect the garden will help ward off water pollution. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

May 18, 2018

Finance Minister AMA Muhith among guests at a discussion organised by the ministry, Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission, and the World Bank on long-term financing at a Dhaka hotel on Thursday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

May 17, 2018

Shopping is on in full swing as hawkers grab pavements and parts of the street in Gulistan-Fulbaria area. The photo was taken on Wednesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Hawkers claw their way back in Gulistan

Heavy traffic jam on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway and a shortage of public transports force many commuters to use pick-up vans to reach their destinations. The photo was taken from Mayor Hanif Flyover on Wednesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

May 16, 2018

Israeli forces responded to protesters with tear gas and live fire from snipers

Bloodshed in Gaza

A photo taken from Ward No. 31 Councillor’s Office centre shows ballot papers with seals of the ruling Awami League’s boat logo lying open on a desk as election officials work during Khulna City Corporation polls on Tuesday. The Election Commission later postponed voting at the centre for irregularities.

Voting in Khulna

State Minister for Labour and Employment Md Mujibul Haque (Chunnu) speaks at a dialogue on Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs organised by the Centre for Policy Dialogue at a Dhaka hotel on Tuesday.

May 15, 2018

Officials gesture after signing an agreement between Dhaka Stock Exchange and a consortium of China's Shenzhen and Shanghai bourses on strategic partnership at a hotel in the capital on Monday.

DSE brings China bourses on board

Ballot boxes are brought to the polling centres for Tuesday’s election. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

On the eve of the Khulna polls

Quota reform protesters gather at Dhaka’s Shahbag to demand the prime minister’s suggested abolition of the quota system for civil service jobs be formalised in a gazette. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

May 14, 2018

Israeli security forces personnel scuffle with a Palestinian woman ahead of the annual Jerusalem Day parade outside Jerusalem's Old City's Damascus Gate, May 13, 2018. REUTERS

Jerusalem Day parade

Drenched in rain, two women with children in their arms are heading to their destinations. The photo was taken at the Bakshi Bazar area. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Rain brings miseries to Dhaka residents

The fourth span of the Padma Bridge has been installed between pillars 40 and 41 on the Jazira end of the bridge, making 600 metres of the country’s largest physical infrastructure project visible.

May 13, 2018

Friends and relatives of Ananta Bijoy Das organise a candlelight vigil and rally the National Museum in Dhaka’s Shahbagh on Saturday remembering the writer-blogger who was slain in an attack by militants in Sylhet on this day three years ago. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

May 12, 2018

Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders and activists join Central Council at the Dhaka’s Suhrawardy Udyan. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

BCL's Central Council

Political, social, educational and cultural organisations paying their final tributes to National Professor and Language Movement hero Mustafa Nur-Ul Islam at the Central Shaheed Minar. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Last respects for National Professor Mustafa Nur-Ul Islam

The much-talked-about graffiti series “Subodh

May 11, 2018

People jostle with each other rushing to get on the bus at Farmgateon Thursday afternoon. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Commuters in transport trouble

Dark clouds literally turned the day into night around 11 in the morning on Thursday. The photo shows Topkhana Road. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

May 10, 2018

Clusters of ripe litchis are seen on the trees. The photo was taken from Sonargaon’s Panamanagar. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Litchi arrives from Sonargaon

Both sides of footpath from Dhaka’s Gulistan to Nababpur road are usually occupied by hawkers. But now they have started encroaching on the road median as well. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

May 09, 2018

A plant for water purification is built in an unhygienic environment. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Pure water in name only

Hasna Banu, a resident of Dumuria village, in Shyamnagar Upazila in Satkhira, runs a shop with financial support from a local organisation. Hasna borrowed Tk 40,000 from the NGO to rebuild her life after Cyclone Aila. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

May 08, 2018

The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh starts open sales of soybean oil, sugar and other essentials ahead of Ramadan, as seen on a key road in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

May 07, 2018

Viqarunnisa Noon School and College students are overjoyed by their SSC results. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

SSC examination results

Dhaka suffered heavy gridlock on the first working day of the week. The photo shows traffic on the Mayor Hanif Flyoveraround 10am on Sunday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

May 06, 2018

Students and other residents have had to deal with three months of sewage system construction in Dhaka’s Arambag. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Drain work narrows Dhaka road

Most pedestrians on Dhaka’s busiest roads do not follow traffic laws, often crossing the street wherever they please instead of using the designated foot over bridges or zebra crossings. Scout personnel took to the streets of the capital on Saturday to raise awareness of the proper use of foot over bridges and underpasses. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Scouts crack down on jaywalking

A demonstration in front of the Chattogram Press Club on Saturday demands justice for the murder of schoolgirl Tasfia Amin. Photo: Suman Babu

May 05, 2018

Guests at the inaugural ceremony of Kuntal Barai's first solo painting exhibition.

Kuntal Barai's painting exhibition

Out-of-service planes of United Airways, the private airline which is not operating any flights for quite a few days, lie in front of the Cargo Village of Shahjalal International Airport on Thursday. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

May 04, 2018

Pedestrians in Dhaka’s Farmgate area cross a key road avoiding a footbridge just over their heads, putting their lives at risk. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Street wrongdoing

Following the Anti-Corruption Commission’s interrogation, Deputy Inspector General Mizanur Rahman speaks to the media. He came under scrutiny after he was accused of abducting a woman and later marrying her by force.

May 03, 2018

A man collects honey from Kolagasiya in the Sundarbans’ Satkhira range. Honey collection in the Sundarbans is one of the risky businesses of the world as danger always lurks there. Every year the honey collectors get attacked by tigers. Photo taken on Apr 27. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

May 02, 2018

Breads in different shapes and sizes are priced from Tk 130 to Tk 400 per kg in Chalk Bazar.

Shab-e-Barat breads

A wild elephant died in hilly area of Uttar Gandhigaon of Sherpur's Jhenaigati Upazila on Tuesday. Veterinary doctors said it died after swallowing toxic plants.

May 01, 2018

​City's Minto Road area after the storm​ ​on Monday.

Nor'wester hits the capital ​

Permanent Representative of Kuwait to the United Nations Mansour Ayyad Al Otaibi, a member of a 15-member UN Security Council delegation, speaks on the Rohingya crisis at the Dhaka airport before leaving for Myanmar on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

April 30, 2018

A garment factory warehouse on the sixth floor of the 12-storey ML Tower caught on fire on Wapda Road in Dhaka’s Rampura on Sunday. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Fire at Rampura garment factory

Devotees pray in front of a statue of Buddha on Buddha Purnima at the Dharmarajika Buddhist Monastery Complex in Dhaka’s Shabujbag on Sunday. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Buddha Purnima

The Murapara Zamidar Bari has a large field out front, with a pond. The building also has a pond behind it. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

The historic Murapara Zamidar Bari

April 29, 2018

Farmers at Narayanganj’s Sonargaon are busy harvesting okra, which grows in summer. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

April 28, 2018

A number of trees between the High Court and Bangabazar are inscribed with Arabic calligraphy. The photo was taken on Friday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Arabic calligraphy on DU trees

Dhaka and its surrounding areas go under water just in a splash of rain as seen in Fatullah’s Adarsh Nagar of Narayanganj. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

April 27, 2018

bKash CEO Kamal Quadir (centre) looks on as bdnews24.com Editor-in-Chief Toufique Imrose Khalidi (right) speaks with Ant Financial Executive Chairman and CEO Eric Jing.

bKash with Alipay

Bangladesh's mobile financial service provider bKash and Ant Financial Service, which operates operates global e-commerce firm Alibaba Group-linked payment platform Alipay, sign a strategic partnership agreement on Thursday at a Dhaka hotel. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

April 26, 2018

A view of the roundtable titled 'Let's Save Every Newborn: Election Pledge Needed' organised by bdnews24.com in partnership with Unicef in Dhaka on Wednesday.

Roundtable on ways to save every newborn

Poet Belal Chowdhry has been showered with love from the people of all walks of life. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Tribute to poet Belal Chowdhury

Construction workers are busy building pillars to install a span for Metrorail at the Agargaon area after the first span was installed in Uttara’s Diabari. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

April 25, 2018

Relatives pay tributes to workers killed in the Rana Plaza disaster by placing wreaths at the graveyard at Jurain in Dhaka on Tuesday to mark the fifth anniversary of the country’s biggest industrial disaster. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

April 24, 2018

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, accompanied by her sister Sheikh Rehana, arrives at Shahjalal International Airport early on Monday ending an eight-day trip to Saudi Arabia and the UK. Photo: BSS

April 23, 2018

Britain's Prince Charles speaks during a special concert

92nd birthday of Queen Elizabeth

People returning home after a long day are suddenly caught in a shower on the Buriganga River. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Crossing the Buriganga in the rain

The Buriganga River near Old Dhaka’s Badamtali is dark and filled with waste dumped by fruit warehouses on Saturday. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

April 22, 2018

‘Sons of Freedom Fighters’ holds a rally in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka on Saturday to demand that quotas for government jobs are maintained. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

April 21, 2018

Fishermen collect fish eggs from South Asia's most abundant natural hatchery, the Halda river, in Chattogram as the female fishes start to release the roes at the spawning season. Photo: Suman Babu

Collecting fish egg in Halda

Two banyan trees, hundreds of years old, stand tall in a village of Jadavpur Union in Dhamrai on the outskirts of Dhaka. The trees’ aerial roots spreading over two acres of land appear to create an eerie environment. Fairy tales about the two trees abound in the neighbourhood. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

In the shadow of the banyan

Bangladesh Council to Protect General Students’ Rights, which is demanding reforms to quota system in government jobs, takes out a protest march on the Dhaka University campus on Friday against expulsion of three students from Kabi Sufia Kamal Hall and the manner in which they were driven out in the wee hours.

April 20, 2018

Visitors take a look at the products and services displayed at a three-day international tourism fair at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka on Thursday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Travel and tourism fair

British Prime Minister Theresa May welcomes Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as she arrives at St James’s Palace in London to join the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.

April 19, 2018

Pedestrians struggle to walk amid traffic congestion on the street at Uttara’s Abdullahpur with vendors taking over the pavement.

Bazaar on pavement

People gather near the Kuril flyover in Dhaka as firemen try to salvage an ill-fated car that plunged into water on Wednesday.

April 18, 2018

April 17, 2018

A handicraft stall at the 10-day Baishakhi Mela that began at Bangla Academy premises on the first day of Baishakh, the first month in Bangla calendar. The picture is taken on Monday. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Baishakhi fair at Bangla Academy

Gulshan Lake is cluttered with garbage. The photo was taken from Gudaraghat area, Gulshan-1. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

April 16, 2018

Advisor to the Prime Minister on Information Technology Sajeeb Wazed Joy at the inaugural ceremony of the two-day BPO Summit at Dhaka’s Sonargaon Hotel on Sunday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Third BPO Summit begins

Four carriages of a train travelling from Jamalpur to Dhaka derailed in Tongi on Sunday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

April 15, 2018

Guests at bdnews24.com’s Pahela Baishakh celebrations to welcome Bangla New Year 1425.

bdnews24.com rings in 1425

The Mangal Shobhajatra celebrating the Bangla New Year is taken out with a call for becoming a pure human being by overcoming the darkness of the soul in the sunlight.

Mangal Shobhajatra 1425

Traditional Pahela Boishakh songs at the Ramna Batamul in Dhaka usher the New Year at the break of dawn on Saturday. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Bangla New Year celebrations at Ramna Batamul

Channel i and Shurer Dhara welcome Bangla New Year 1425 by arranging musical event at the Bangabandhu International Convention Centre. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

April 14, 2018

Last-minute preparations for Pahela Baishakh celebrations under way at Dhaka University's Faculty of Fine Arts.

Managal Shobhajatra preparations

A Krishnachura tree in full bloom in the Jatiya Sangsad area in Dhaka. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

April 13, 2018

Protesters calling for quota march through the Dhaka University campus to celebrate the prime minister’s decision to abolish quotas from government jobs. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

April 12, 2018

Members of minority ethnic groups place flowers at the Dhaka’s Crescent Lake on Thursday to celebrate Baishabi. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Dhaka celebrates Baishabi

Students of the Dhaka University stage demonstration demanding quota reforms in the government job in front of Raju Memorial Sculpture on Wednesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Quota reform protest enters Day 4

New Bangla Year is just a few days away. Shopkeepers and traders on Pahela Baishakh usually open a new ledger to celebrate traditional Haal Khata. New ledger books were on the sale at Chawkbazar on Wednesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

April 11, 2018

Students of some private universities gather on a road at Dhaka’s Pragati Sharani on Tuesday demanding reforms in the quota system for appointment to government jobs. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

April 10, 2018

Dhaka University vice-chancellor's residence on the campus was vandalised in the wee hours of Monday amid protests demanding reforms to quota system in government jobs. The attackers set fire to some furniture after ransacking the house. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

VC house vandalised

Protesters agitating for the past couple of days in demand for quota reform in govt jobs gather in front of Raju Sculpture inside Dhaka University campus on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

April 09, 2018

The first span of the metrorail project is laid in Uttara’s Diabari after construction on the foundation is completed. Photo: asif mahmud ove

First metrorail span

Storm winds have flattened the onion flowers preserved for their seeds in Ambikapur in Faridpur’s Sadar upazila.

April 08, 2018

Customers buzz the pottery and other handicraft shops on the pavement at Doyel Chattar on the Dhaka University campus on Saturday ahead of Pahela Baishakh. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Baishakh shopping

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was taken to BSMMU from prison for medical tests. She walked from the car to the elevator by herself. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Khaleda's health tests

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad addresses a rally organised by Sammilita Jatiya Jote at the Laldighi ground in Chattogram on Saturday. Photo: suman babu

April 07, 2018

Water buses anchored at Badamtoli pier in Old Dhaka have been out of service for long due to river pollution, lack of pontoons and mismanagement by the authorities. Photo: mostafigur rahman

April 06, 2018

Passengers scramble to get on to a bus as it slowed down in the middle of the road while other vehicles are passing by. The picture is taken from Karwan Bazar on Thursday. Photo: asif mahmud ove

Risky ride

Fresh agricultural produce come from different parts of area on Thursday market at Beraider Haat by the river Balu. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

A village bazaar by Balu river

Garment Sramik Odhikar Andolan, a platform for garment workers, demonstrates outside the National Press Club in Dhaka on Thursday demanding release of Joly Talukder, general secretary at Garment Workers' Trade Union Centre. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

April 05, 2018

They are called Bangladeshi 'dabbawalas', crossing Buriganga everyday from Jinjira with lunch boxes from Jinjira to different shops in Chawkbazar, the old part of Dhaka. The woman in picture has been doing it for the last 10 years and earns Tk 250 to Tk 350 for each tiffin box a month. Photo: mostafigur rahman

Bangladeshi 'dabbawalas'

Masks are ready for sale on Wednesday, ahead of Pahela Baishakh celebrations. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Preparations for Pahela Baishakh

Dhaka South City Mayor Sayeed Khokon speaks at an inaugural event on ‘Dettol Parichhanna Dhaka’ on Wednesday.

April 04, 2018

Pran-RFL holds a press conference to disclose details on the ‘Good Luck Bangladesh’ programme at Fuji Trade Centre in Dhaka’s Uttara on Tuesday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

April 03, 2018

A student sits the exam at Shiddheswari Girls’ College centre. Around 1.3 million students from 9,000 educational institutions are taking the tests this year. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

HSC exams begin

Leaders of Garment Workers' Trade Union Centre take out a procession outside the National Press Club in Dhaka on Monday, urging the government to release its General Secretary Joly Talukder from jail.

April 02, 2018

Christian devotees pray at the T&T field near Manik Miah Avenue on Easter Sunday. Photo: mostafigur rahman

Easter Sunday

A trader washes pointed gourds (popularly known as ‘potol’) in the dirty water of the Buringanga in Old Dhaka’s Shyambazar. Photo: mostafigur rahman

April 01, 2018

The age limit reduces the employment possibilities of those who pursue postgraduate degrees, protesters say. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Rally to raise age limit on public sector hiring

Advertisements for driving schools, tutors and various other services cover a tree in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Trees used as billboards

A child welfare organisation holds a demonstration in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka to protest child abuse and demand proper punishment to rapists.

March 31, 2018

Children solve crosswords on tablets at an event promoting safe internet in Dhaka on Friday. UNICEF and Facebook organised the event at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Novo Theatre. Photo: asif mahmud ove

Safe internet for children

​A sudden blustery wind laced with hailstorms lashes many parts of the country including the capital on Friday. The storm killed four people and caused extensive damage to crops in several northern districts.​​ This picture is from Gobindaganj in Gaibandha district.​​

March 30, 2018

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina waves to the crowd at an Awami League rally at the Thakurgaon Government Boys High School on Thursday.

March 29, 2018

Both footpath and part of the road at Mirpur-1 in the capital has been occupied by the hawkers causing the severe problem to the pedestrians and vehicular movement in the area. The picture is taken on Wednesday. Photo: asif mahmud ove

Road encroachment

Security is beefed up in the Bakshibazar and its surrounding areas on Wednesday as a court is set to hear in the Zia Charitable Trust graft case against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

March 28, 2018

Motorcyclists drive through a footpath at Dhaka’s Bangla Motor causing inconveniences to pedestrians. Photo: asif mahmud ove

Bikers’ nuisance

Mango and lychee gardens on the hills in Roangchhari Upazila in Bandarban. Impressed by the profits, hill residents prefer the fruits over Jhum cultivation these days. Photo: mostafigur rahman

March 27, 2018

People with physical disabilities reach the National Martyrs’ Memorial in Savar to pay homage to liberation war martyrs on Independence Day on Monday.

47 years of independence

Children dance at a programme organised at Dhaka’s Rayerbazar killing field on Independence Day on Monday.

March 26, 2018

Bangladesh observes a minute of blackout at 9pm on Sunday to remember the darkest hours of its history when the Pakistani forces launched a crackdown on unarmed Bengalis on the night of Mar 25 in 1971.

March 25, 2018

Farmer Moktar Hossain has set up this pump to irrigate croplands at Dakatia Parha in Munshiganj's Sirajdikhan. Around half a dozen other farmers use Moktar's water pump to irrigate their paddy fields and pay Tk 1,200 excluding the price of oil per season. The photo is taken on Saturday. Photo: mostafigur rahman

March 24, 2018

Ekattor Television organises a roundtable titled 'Developing Bangladesh: The Challenges Ahead' at a hotel in Dhaka on Saturday as Bangladesh earns the eligibility to graduate from a least developed country or LDC to a developing one. Photo: mostafigur rahman

Roundtable on developing nation challanges

A general view of the travel and tourism fair at Dhaka's Sonargaon Hotel on Friday. The three-day exposition ends on Saturday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Travel and tourism fair

Grief-stricken relatives of US-Bangla pilot Abid Sultan's widow Afsana Khanam, who died on Friday at ythe National Institute of Neurosciences and Hospital in Dhaka, about a week after she was hospitalised with a stroke after hearing the news of her husband’s death in a plane crash in Kathmandu.

March 23, 2018

Farm workers busy harvesting potatoes in the neighbourhood of Ichhapura in Sirajdikhan, Munshiganj. The labourers who came from Rajshahi to work in Munshiganj are paid by the day. Photo: mostafigur rahman

Potato harvest in Munshiganj

The polluted black water of a canal in Dhaka’s Madartek bears a testimony to severe environmental degradation. Organisations observe World Water Day on Mar 22 amid calls for global efforts to resolve the water crisis and stop pollution. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

March 22, 2018

Hundreds of commuters look stranded due to the inadequate number of buses on different routes in south Chittagong as most of the vehicles headed towards an Awami League rally addressed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Patiya in Chittagong on Wednesday. This picture is taken from Shah Amanat Bridge area.

Awami League rally causes traffic chaos in Chittagong

Rampant Illegal tree felling in Bandarban; this picture was taken on Wednesday from Minjhiri Para in the hill tract district’s Ruma Upazila. Photo: mostafigur rahman

March 21, 2018

​Slum dwellers put their lives on the line by living so close to the railway tracks. They also play cat and mouse game with railway authorities as they reoccupy the railway land within a few ​days after the evictions. The photo is taken from Mohakhali area in the capital on Tuesday.

Cat and mouse game of evictions​

Capital development authority, RAJUK demolished parts of Ha-Meem Group Chairman AK Azad's house in Dhaka on Tuesday. Authorities said the former FBCCI president's house, in the city's upscale neighbourhood of Gulshan, was built without following an approved plan. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

March 20, 2018

Grief-stricken relatives of the US-Bangla plane crash victims at the Bangladesh Army Stadium in Dhaka, where the bodies of the 23 victims were brought on Monday to pay the final respects before handover.

March 19, 2018

A brick kiln illegally constructed by influential people near a protected forestland in Bandarban’s Roanchhari area, as viewed from a road through Chainga village. Photo: mostafigur rahman

March 18, 2018