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

Clean-up drive on Kutubkhali Canal

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

January 21, 2019

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

January 20, 2019

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

Awami League’s election victory celebration

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

The pumpkins of Arial Beel

People walk to their destinations as vehicles remain stuck in tailbacks caused by traffic restrictions during the Awami League's election victory celebration at the Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka.

January 19, 2019

The pieces of plastic are set out along the slopes of the embankments. Waves of colourful plastic catches the eye from afar. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Shards by the Buriganga

Visitors flocking to the Dhaka International Trade Fair 2019 on the weekly holiday on Friday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

January 18, 2019

A rope is seen being used to bar commuters from breaking traffic rules at Dhaka's Bijoy Sarani intersection on Thursday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

January 17, 2019

The Namaz-e-Janaza of bdnews24.com’s Senior Editor Amanullah Kabir is being held at the National Press Club. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Adieu to Amanullah Kabir

Priota Farelin Iftekhar, who was crowned the first-ever Miss Culture Worldwide in Zimbabwe in December last year, speaking at a news conference in Dhaka on Wednesday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

January 16, 2019

The Namaz-e-Janaza of Abu Bakar Chowdhury, acting editor of Daily Manabkantho, was held at the National Press Club in Dhaka on Tuesday.

January 15, 2019

Workers of the Roads and Highways Department razing down an illegal structure during an eviction drive on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway at Shanir Akhra on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Eviction on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway

Factory workers of Bando ECO Apparels block road and vandalise vehicles at Savar’s Aminbazar after rumour spread that a city-owned garbage truck ran over and killed one of their co-workers on Monday.

January 14, 2019

Pedestrians have to cover their faces when walking amid the dust-filled air Postogola. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Dust blanket on Postogola

'Charcoals' - renewable solid fuel made from rice husk - is being loaded on to a truck bound for Cumilla. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Rice husk to fuel

Pedestrians at Dhaka's Purana Paltan use a gap in the road divider to jaywalk while a foot over-bridge remains seemingly empty on Sunday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

January 13, 2019

Road Transport Minister Obaidul Quader inspects a BRTA mobile court on Manik Mia Avenue in Dhaka on Saturday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

January 12, 2019

People thronged the Dhaka International Trade Fair 2019 at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar on Friday, the first weekly holiday after the inauguration. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

DITF starts pulling crowd

Rahim Mia selectively picks beans that are ripe for sale as a number of his produce are yet to become edible. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Winter beans

Sammilito Sangskritik Jote, the central platform of cultural organisations, organised a programme to commemorate Awami League leader Syed Ashraful Islam at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka on Friday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

January 11, 2019

A farmer checks a box for honey at a bee farm. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Bee farming at mustard fields

Stalls and pavilions at the Dhaka International Trade Fair 2019 are being prepared on Thursday, a day after inauguration. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

January 10, 2019

Police using water-cannons to disperse agitating garment workers from the Dhaka-Aricha Highway at Savar’s Karnapara.

January 09, 2019

Workers preparing the eye-catching stalls for the Dhaka International Trade Fair. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Trade fair preparations

After beginning her record fourth term as prime minister, Sheikh Hasina pays tribute to her father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing a wreath in front of his portrait at Dhanmondi's Bangabandhu Memorial Museum on Tuesday. Photo: PID

January 08, 2019

Garment workers set fire to a bus on Dhaka’s Airport Road on Monday during a demonstration to demand an increase in the minimum wage and to press for a series of other demands. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Airport Road blocked again

President Md Abdul Hamid administers oath to deputy ministers of the new cabinet during an inauguration ceremony at the Bangabhaban on Monday. Photo: ABM Aktaruzzaman / PID

January 07, 2019

Local youths put together a ‘wall of humanity’ at the entrance of Sobhanbagh Government Officers Quarter. Anyone can leave their spare garments on the wall to be picked up by the needy. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

January 06, 2019

A field of gerbera flowers in a variety of colours. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Gerbera flowers

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir visits the woman who was gang-raped on the election day, at a hospital in Noakhali on Saturday.

January 05, 2019

Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha Chief Editor Abul Kalam Azad, bdnews24.com Editor-in-Chief Toufique Imrose Khalidi, The Daily Janakantha Executive Editor Swadesh Roy and senior journalist Abed Khan attending the meeting of the Editors Guild, Bangladesh at the bdnews24.com offices in Dhaka on Friday.

Editors Guild forms committee

Abdul Mannan has set up his repair team in one of the 'Paharas'. He takes up to three days to finish repairing a boat. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Ghoramis: Repairers of boats

Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina and the other newly elected MPs of the party paying homage to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing wreath on his mural at the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum in Dhaka on Friday, a day after taking oath. Photo: PID

January 04, 2019

Cricketer Mashrafe Bin Mortaza has been the biggest sensation in the elections. The Awami League MP from Narail-2 seat wore a Mujib Coat when he came to parliament to be sworn in on Thursday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

MPs take oath

Artists and celebrities paint a wall at Banani during a campaign for a clean Dhaka on Thursday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

January 03, 2019

People cross the darkened waters of the Buriganga River by boat in the Babubazar area. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

The darkened waters of the Buriganga

Workers from Gazipur’s Doreen Garments protest the firing of more than 200 coworkers, in front of the BGMEA building in Dhaka on Wednesday.

January 2, 2019

The numbers

New Year Celebration around the world

Happy students show off the new textbooks they received on Tuesday, the first day of the new year. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Textbook festival

Agitated people set a bus on fire near Hajipara Petrol Pump following the deaths of two female garment workers in a road accident in Dhaka’s Malibagh area on Tuesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

January 1, 2019

Chinese Ambassador Zhang Zuo congratulates Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on the Awami League’s landslide win in the 11th national parliamentary election. Photo: Saiful Islam Kallol

Prime minister receives congratulations

Children playing as the sun sets at South Kattoli Rani Rashmoni Ghat pier in Chattogram on the New Year’s Eve, 2018. Photo: Sumon Babu

December 31, 2018

Dhaka-1 seat independent candidate Salma Islam breaks down in tears on Sunday afternoon during a press conference announcing that she was stepping aside from the race. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

December 30, 2018

Law enforcers are strengthening security ahead of the 11th national parliamentary election. Army personnel are searching vehicles on Dhaka’s Elephant Road on Saturday after setting up a checkpoint. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

December 29, 2018

Just a day left before the election and most offices have closed. The streets were nearly empty at Dhaka's Bangla Motor on Friday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

The election exodus

Fire breaks out at Zaman Tower in Purana Paltan on Friday, spreading from the office of the National Credit Rating Ltd located at the 8th storey of the 16-storey building. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

December 28, 2018

Discussants at a special event on the parliamentary elections co-organised on Thursday by bdnews24.com and Deutsche Welle on how they want to see Bangladesh.

December 27, 2018

Bangladesh ODI captain and Narail-2 Awami League candidate Mashrafe Bin Mortaza meets voters in his constituency ahead of the Dec 30 polls.

The campaign trail

Officials sorting election materials for polling stations at Chattogram Gymnasium on Wednesday, four days before the general election. Photo: Suman Babu

December 26, 2018

Pope Francis delivers the

World celebrates Christmas

Millions of taka in cash and cheque were seized during a RAB raid on export-import firm United Corporation's Motijheel offices over alleged election fraud on Tuesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

December 25, 2018

Students of Dr Khastagir Government Girls' High School celebrating the PEC, JSC exam results on Monday. Photo: Suman Babu

PEC-JSC-JDC results out

Army personnel stand guard at the Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium following the deployment of troops on Monday for the parliamentary elections. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

December 24, 2018

Members of the Professionals' Coordination Council rally at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka on Sunday urging all to vote for the pro-independence forces and boycott those who stand against the Liberation War spirit. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

December 23, 2018

Various social, cultural and political organisations came to say their final farewell to departed film director Amjad Hossain at Dhaka’s Central Shaheed Minar on Saturday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Last respects paid to Amjad Hossain

Posters for the Awami League and BNP candidates in the Dhaka-10 parliamentary race hang in Dhanmondi. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

December 22, 2018

The remains of a Hindu family home at Thakurgaon's Singia Shahapara village in the aftermath of an arson attack that destroyed eight huts and killed seven goats on early Friday.

December 21, 2018

A trader attends to his plants. A customer browses the plants on offer. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Greenery on Dhaka footpaths

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina addressed a campaign rally in Narail on Thursday from her Sudha Sadan residence in Dhaka via video conference. The Awami League candidate, national cricketer Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, accompanied her.

December 20, 2018

Haji Mohammad Salim, the Awami League candidate for the Dhaka-7 constituency, campaigning at Old Dhaka's Posta on Wednesday.

Hectic electioneering

Dhaka residents trying to stay warm in winter clothes even at high noon as a spell of cold weather has engulfed the country. This photo was taken from Dhaka University campus on Wednesday.

December 19, 2018

Large and small pavilions are under construction on the site of the 28th Dhaka International Trade Fair in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Trade fair preparations

Labourers gather around a fire for warmth in Dhaka’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area as cyclone Phethai brings rain and cloudy weather to the capital. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

December 18, 2018

Dr Kamal Hossain leading a Jatiya Oikya Front delegation to the Election Commission in Dhaka on Monday to lodge complaints about attacks on and cases against the candidates and supporters of the alliance. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

December 17, 2018

The National Martyrs’ Memorial is strewn with flowers on the 47th anniversary of Victory Day. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

47 years of victory

Chhaynaut held a cultural programme at the Dhaka University's central playground on Friday to celebrate the Victory Day. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

December 16, 2018

Farmers prepare to take their turnips to market at Keraniganj’s Jagannathpur. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Good harvest, poor prices

Dhaka-8 BNP candidate Mirza Abbas came under attack while campaigning in Dhaka’s Shegun Bagicha.

December 15, 2018

People from all walks of life pay tribute to the martyred intellectuals at the Martyred Intellectuals Memorial at Mirpur in Dhaka on Friday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Martyred Intellectuals Day

Jatiya Oikya Front chief Dr Kamal Hossain speaking at a press conference at the alliance's Purana Paltan offices in Dhaka on Friday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

December 14, 2018

Celebrities carrying leaflets during the ruling Awami League’s election campaign at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka on Thursday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Celebrities join election campaign

Traders selling seasonal fruits in unhygienic condition beside the garbage dumped on a road at Jatrabarhi intersection in Dhaka. This photo was taken from Mayor Hanif Flyover on Thursday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

December 13, 2018

Egrets searching for food in a marshland at Keraniganj's Hasnabad in Dhaka on Wednesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

December 12, 2018

BNP leader Abdullah Al Noman exchanging greetings with Awami League candidate Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury Nowfel during their election campaign at the port city of Chattogram on Tuesday.

December 11, 2018

Miss Mexico Vanessa Ponce de Leon, 26, celebrates after winning the Miss World 2018 title. REUTERS

Mexico vanessa ‘Miss World 2018’

Cages of parrots and parakeets are displayed for sale in Gulshan. The trader admits the birds were caught in traps near Dhaka. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Wild birds for sale

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain speaking at a Human Rights Day event in Dhaka on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

December 10, 2018

TIB holds a demonstration in front of the Dhaka University Student-Teacher Centre as part of International Anti-Corruption Day.

International Anti-Corruption Day

Though they said the hunger strike would continue until Hasna Hena was freed, the protest was called off after a group of teachers met with them and gave them water to break their fast on Sunday afternoon.

December 09, 2018

The signal light control box looks like it is out of service. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Dhaka’s levels crossings neglected

Pigeons are sold for Tk 200 – Tk 10,000 at Dhaka’s Kaptanbazar market. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Pigeon market

Agitated supporters of three BNP leaders, who have been dropped from the list of BNP candidates for the elections, demonstrating outside the party chief's Gulshan offices in Dhaka on Saturday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

December 08, 2018

Vehicles are blocked on one side of Dhaka’s Manik Mia Avenue between 8am and 11am on the first Friday of the month as part of a campaign for ‘car-free roads’. Various forms of entertainment for children are available on the spot. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Fun on car-free roads

A stall at the International Flower Exhibition and Conference 2018 at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre on Friday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

International Flower Exhibition

A group of Viqarunnisa students demand the release of teacher Hasna Hena, who was sent to jail over the suicide of student Aritry Adhikary, at a demonstration in Dhaka’s Bailey Road. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

December 07, 2018

A student holding a placard takes part in the third day of protests at the Viqarunnisa Noon School and College on Dhaka’s Bailey Road over the death of class nine student Aritry Adhikary on Thursday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Viqarunnisa students call off protests

Traders collect run-down tyres and tubes from different places in the capital and pile those up at Mohammadpur Beribandh to sell for Tk 15-18 per kg. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

December 06, 2018

Students carrying placards during the second day of demonstration in front of the main branch of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College on Dhaka’s Bailey Road on Wednesday against the death of a peer, Aritry Adhikary. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Viqarunnisa protest continues

A woman works at a pottery factory in Dhaka’s Dhamrai. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Pottery crafts

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina takes the captain's seat as she inspects the cockpit of 'Hangsabalaka', the second Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner recently added to the fleet of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, at Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Wednesday. Photo: ABM Aktaruzzaman / PID

December 05, 2018

Students surround Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid’s car to protest Aritry Adhikary’s death after his arrival at Viqarunnisa Noon School and College in Dhaka on Tuesday.

December 04, 2018

People pay their final respects to departed photographer Anwar Hossain at Dhaka’s Central Shaheed Minar on Monday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Last respects to photographer Anwar Hossain

Mofidul Hoque, a trustee of the Liberation War Museum, speaking at an event marking the 63rd founding anniversary of the Bangla Academy in Dhaka on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

December 03, 2018

Muslims collect their belongings from the Biswa Ijtema ground in Tongi on Sunday after leaving their stuff while fleeing clashes between Tabligh Jamaat factions.

December 02, 2018

Workers move the trunks of felled trees across the railway tracks in Dhaka. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Railways losing greenery

Supporters of one Tabligh faction took up positions in front of Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Saturday morning.

Two factions of Tabligh clash

City residents are facing difficulties due to construction work on a Metrorail line through the middle of a road near the busy Shahbagh intersection by BIRDEM hospital. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

December 01, 2018

Ahead of the Victory Day, the demand for national flag is high. A tailor is passing busy time making national flag at the capital's Gulistan on Friday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Season of flag sale

A fire devastated a yarn warehouse and the Purobi Cinema Hall on Friday. It took around two hours for 14 units of the Fire Service and Civil Defence to bring it under control. Photo: Suman Babu

November 30 , 2018

An electrician producing energy-saving bulbs at Patuatuli in Old Dhaka on Thursday. The bulbs made from parts imported from China are sold for Tk 70-120 apiece. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Low-price energy saving bulbs

Members of Bangladesh Group Theatre Federation took out a procession in Dhaka on Thursday to celebrate its founding anniversary 'Group Theatre Day'.

November 29 , 2018

A man is selling campaign materials such as portraits of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Sheikh Hasina, mugs or badges with their photos or lockets of boat logo in front of the Awami League Headquarters on the Bangabandhu Avenue in Dhaka ahead of election. This photo was taken on Wednesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

November 28 , 2018

Supporters of Ziaul Haque Mridha demonstrate blocking the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway at Kuttaparha bend in Sarail for over an hour from 11am on Tuesday demanding his nomination for Brahmanbarhia-2 constituency.

Demo over nominations

Family members of Dr Shamsul Alam Khan Milon, who was killed in the anti-autocracy movement on Nov 27, 1990, placing wreath on his grave at the Dhaka Medical College premises on Tuesday.

November 27 , 2018

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir hands the BNP candidacy confirmation letter for imprisoned party chief Khaleda Zia to an election official on Monday. Khaleda aspires to compete in the election from Feni-1, Bagura-6 and Bagura-7 constituencies. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Paddy sheaf nominations

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir breaks down in tears after recalling party chief Khaleda Zia’s imprisonment in prison during the distribution of confirmation letters for the 11th parliamentary elections. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

November 26 , 2018

Former health minister AFM Ruhal Haque was nominated by the Awami League on Sunday to run again for Satkhira-3 constituency in the general elections. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

AL hands boat tickets

Jatiya Oikya Front chief Dr Kamal Hossain speaking at a news conference of the Gono Forum party he also heads at the National Press Club in Dhaka on Sunday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

November 25 , 2018

Water taxis continue plying across the Gulshan-Badda Lake, close to Gulshan-1 in Dhaka, despite the High Court’s ban on the service. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

November 24 , 2018

The Rainforest School authorities attend to flowering and medicinal plants. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Greening efforts

A pilot dies after a training aircraft of Bangladesh Air Force crashes in Tangail’s Madhupur on Friday.

November 23 , 2018

The authorities have put an electricity transformer on the main street in Old Dhaka's Islampur, very close to a pavement, vendors and passersby, creating risk of a major accident, This photo was taken on Thursday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

November 22, 2018

Eid-e-Milad-ul-Nabi

Eid-e-Milad-ul-Nabi Celebration

Green paddy fields are a traditional picture of Bangladesh’s villages. But Sadullapur village in Savar's Birulia Union stands out with its rose gardens on both sides of the road. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

November 21 , 2018

Trucks and others vehicles parked on the Dhupkhola ground in Old Dhaka on Tuesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Encroached playground

Police produced before the media on Tuesday the six people arrested on charges of vandalising and torching police cars during clashes with BNP supporters at Naya Paltan on Nov 14.

November 20 , 2018

Taxpayers throng the National Income Tax Fair 2018 at the Officers' Club on the Bailey Road in Dhaka as the week-long programme ended on Monday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Income Tax Fair ends

Though the Election Commission has ordered all campaign posters, banners and festoons to be removed by Sunday, various portions of the capital are still plastered with the political advertisements, as seen in Dhaka’s Katabon area.

November 19 , 2018

California wildfires

The entrance of the Bangabandhu National Stadium is covered by posters of possible Awami League nominees of the parliamentary elections on Sunday afternoon. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Posters not yet removed

Fifth grade students sit the PSC and Ebtedayee exams at Dhaka Ideal Model Govt Primary School on Sunday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

PSC exams begin

BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman joins the interviews of the party's nominees for the parliamentary elections at party chief's Gulshan offices via videoconference from London on Sunday.

November 18 , 2018

Disabled taxpayers submit their returns at the Income Tax Fair at the Officer's Club in Dhaka on Saturday. A separate booth is installed at the fair this year for the disabled. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Income tax fair gets momentum

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir speaks at a rally for lawyers organised by the Jatiya Oikya Front at the Supreme Court premises on Saturday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

November 17 , 2018

Police escorting BNP leader Nipun Roy Chowdhury to jail on Friday after the Chief Metropolitan Magistrates Court of Dhaka granted the law enforcers five days to grill her and six others in custody over violent clashes at Naya Paltan.

November 16 , 2018

Visitors look around the garment accessories exhibition at International Convention City Bashundhara on the first day on Thursday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Garment accessories exhibition

BNP leaders and activists gathered in front of the party headquarters in Dhaka's Naya Paltan on Thursday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

November 15 , 2018