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An elderly man taking part in the Akheri Munajat or final prayer capping the 55th Bishwa Ijtema on the banks of the Turag River in Tongi on Sunday.

Januay 19, 2020

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda announces the deferral of the elections to the Dhaka city corporations from Jan 30 to Feb 1 because of Saraswati Puja after an emergency meeting at the EC headquarters in the capital on Saturday.

Januay 18, 2020

Visitors crowd the Dhaka International Trade Fair in the capital's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar on Friday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Trade fair on Friday

A group of Dhaka University students are on the second day of their hunger strike on Friday at the altar of the Raju Memorial Sculpture on the campus demanding that the Jan 30 Dhaka polling day be changed owing to Saraswati Puja.

Januay 17, 2020

A woman looking at the deepest core of the earth using VR glasses at Digital Bangladesh Fair at the capital’s Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Agargaon. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Digital Bangladesh Fair

Dhaka University students launch a hunger strike at the altar of Raju Memorial Sculpture on Thursday demanding the Dhaka city polls on Jan 30 be rescheduled as it coincides with Saraswati Puja. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Januay 16, 2020

Disgruntled students of Dhaka University block Shahbagh intersection for the second day after the police obstructed their march towards EC headquarters in Agargaon demanding the date of Dhaka city polls be changed for Saraswati Puja. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Shahbagh blockade

Police pulling a mini covered van with a wrecker after it overturned on the street in front of the Prime Minister's Office in Dhaka on Wednesday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Januay 15, 2020

A group of Dhaka University students demonstrate blocking Shahbagh intersection on Tuesday demanding that the date for the city polls be changed for Saraswati Puja.

Januay 14, 2020

Women queue to vote in Chattogram-8 by-elections at Shakpura Dashbhuja Government Primary School on Monday. Photo: Suman Babu

Chattogram-8 by-elections

Professor Anisuzzaman speaking at a rally organised by Sammilita Nagorik Samaj in Dhaka's Shahbagh on Monday in protest against an attack on Liberation War Museum Trustee Sarwar Ali and his family. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Januay 13, 2020

The first phase of the 55th Biswa Ijtema ended with a final prayer for peace in life, afterlife and the welfare of the nation on Sunday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Januay 12, 2020

Visitors crowd the Dhaka International Trade Fair on Saturday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Visitors throng trade fair

A boat carrying empty LPG cylinders heads towards Diabari in Dhaka’s Mirpur from Savar crossing the Tugar River on Saturday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Januay 11, 2020

Tabligh Jamaat's annual congregation Biswa Ijtema began on the bank of the Turag river in Gazipur's Tongi on Friday. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Biswa Ijtema begins

Ishraque Hossain, the BNP candidate for Dhaka South City Corporation mayor elections, campaigning with senior leaders and his supporters in the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque area after Friday prayers. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Januay 10, 2020

A thick layer of fog canopied the Turag river in Dhaka on Thursday afternoon amid a cold snap sweeping over Bangladesh. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Fog covers Dhaka

Students demonstrated blocking the streets at Raju Memorial Sculpture square on the Dhaka University campus on Thursday as they demanded punishment of a suspected rapist of a student of the university. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Januay 9, 2020

The RAB on Wednesday presented before the media 'Mojnu', 30, the lone suspect arrested over the rape of a Dhaka University student in the capital's Kurmitola. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Januay 8, 2020

Students of Dhaka University set fire to an effigy at the altar of Raju Memorial Sculpture on Tuesday demanding justice over the rape of an undergraduate student of the university in the capital’s Kurmitola. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Call to try the rapist

Demonstrators painting motifs on a street on the Dhaka University campus on Tuesday during protests against the rape of a student. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

January 7, 2020

Students of Dhaka University demonstrated blocking the Shahbagh intersection on Monday demanding justice over the rape of a second-year undergraduate student in the capital’s Kurmitola on Sunday evening. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

DU explodes in rape protests

A long-tailed shrike, called Lenja Latora or Baghtiki in Bangla, sits on a corn plant at a field in Dakkhin Kanarchar in Dhaka’s Keraniganj. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

January 6, 2020

Volunteers preparing pandals at the Bishwa Ijtema ground at Gazipur’s Tongi. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Preparations for Bishwa Ijtema

A family travels home by motorbike after buying a pet from Dhaka’s Katabon. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

January 5, 2020

Artists perform a dance sequence at the inauguration of a winter fair at the Bangla Academy premises in Dhaka on Saturday. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Winter fair

Awami League chief Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina speaks in an event marking Bangladesh Chhatra League’s anniversary at the Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka on Saturday.

January 4, 2020

A pavilion at the Dhaka International Trade Fair 2020. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Rain disrupts trade fair

Three members of a family riding motorcycle without wearing helmets and putting their lives in danger at the capital’s Atish Dipankar Road in Mugda. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

January 3, 2020

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen speaking at the inaugural ceremony of ‘Flash on Rohingya Genocide’, a photo exhibition at the Shilpakala Academy in Dhaka on Thursday

January 2, 2020

A man helping her excited daughter unpack the new textbooks at No. 1 Government Primary School in Munshiganj's Srinagar on Wednesday. The government distributed the books for free among millions of students throughout the country on the first day of the new year.

Textbook Festival

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurating the month-long Dhaka International Trade Fair 2020 at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar on Wednesday.

January 1, 2020

Fireworks are seen from Mrs Macquarie's Chair during New Year's Eve celebrations in Sydney, Australia, December 31, 2019. AAP Image for City of Sydney/Mick Tsikas/via REUTERS

Ringing in 2020

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pushing a boy on a swing at the Ganabhaban on Tuesday after a group of childredn came for text books of the new year.

Hasina with children

Awami League candidate Atiqul Islam submitting his nomination form at the office of the returning officer in Agargaon on Tuesday for the mayoral polls to Dhaka North City Corporation. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

December 31, 2019

Police charging batons to disperse the leaders and activists of the Left Democratic Alliance during an anti-government 'black flag' march on Monday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi 

Baton charges on leftists’ march

A man and a boy on a boat guiding home their herd of buffalo through the Karnaphuli river after feeding the cattle on a shoal at Kolagaon in Chattogram’s Patia. Photo: Suman Babu

December 30, 2019

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader announces the names of candidates for the Dhaka city polls from a media briefing at the Awami League chief’s Dhanmondi offices on Sunday.

December 29, 2019

Leaders and activists of the Jatiya Party join its Ninth National Council at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh in Dhaka on Saturday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Jatiya Party council

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurates two Boeing Dreamliner 787-9 planes recently added to Biman Bangladesh’s fleet, at the Dhaka airport on Saturday.

December 28, 2019

A fire ravaged over 100 shanties of Baunia slum at Mirpur's Kalshi in Dhaka in the wee hours of Friday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Fire burns down Baunia slum

A woman holding a baby wrapped in clothes on a rickshaw as the residents of Dhaka try to keep themselves warm due to the chilly weather after mild overnight rains on Friday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

December 27, 2019

A layer of fog hangs over High Court area of Dhaka on Thursday afternoon. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Foggy Dhaka

Preperations are under way at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar on Thursday for the Dhaka International Trade Fair beginning on Jan 1. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

December 26, 2019

A priest offers prayers in the first hours of Christmas at Holy Rosary Catholic Church at Dhaka's Farmgate.

Christmas celebrations in Bangladesh

People crossing a river on bamboo-made bridge amid dense fog at Jalalpur village in Netrokona’s Mohanganj Upazila. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

December 25, 2019

Housing and Public Works Minister SM Rezaul Karim visits several stalls after inaugurating a five-day winter fair at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka on Tuesday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

REHAB Winter Fair begins

Paddy cutter machine is growing in popularity amidst a rising demand due to the lack of workers in the rice harvesting season. A man using the machine to harvest Aman crops at a field in Netrokona’s Mohanganj Upazila on Tuesday. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

December 24, 2019

The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority or BIWTA has launched a nationwide crackdown on unauthorised installations on water bodies and rivers. More than a hundred thatched houses on the banks of the Turag River at Kamarpara in Dhaka were being removed as part of the drive on Monday.

December 23, 2019

People from all echelons of society paid their last respects to Fazle Hasan Abed, the founder of BRAC who died at the age of 83 on Friday, at the Dhaka’s Army Stadium on Sunday. The body was taken to the Banani Graveyard after the funeral prayers at the stadium.

Tributes for Fazle Hasan Abed

People from all walks of life pay their last respects to BRAC founder Sir Fazle Hasan Abed before his Namaz-e-Janaza at the Army Stadium and burial at Banani Graveyard in Dhaka on Sunday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

December 22, 2019

Editors Guild President Toufique Imrose Khalidi and guests celebrate the organisation’s first founding anniversary by cutting a cake on Saturday.

Editors Guild’s first anniversary

Many children are hospitalised for cold-related diseases such as pneumonia, bronchiolitis, fever and breathing problems amid a cold spell across the country. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Cold snap sets in

Awami League councilors wait for the announcement of the party's new committee at Dhaka's Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh on Saturday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

December 21, 2019

Grassroots leaders and activists of the Awami League gather at Dhaka University's TSC ahead of the party's national council at the Suhrawardy Udyan on Friday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Awami League's 21st National Council

Workers repairing a boat on the dried up bank of the Buriganga at Telghat pier in Dhaka’s Keraniganj on a winter afternoon. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

December 20, 2019

A farmer is preparing his land amid the first cold wave of this winter in Panchagarh on Thursday.

December 19, 2019

Fog covers the Dhaka sky on Wednesday as temperatures begin to drop. This photo was taken in Mohakhali. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

December 18, 2019

The three passenger vessels operating on the Teknaf-Saint Martin’s Island route are anchored at the Damdamiya jetty on the Naf River. The authorities have commissioned these vessels, which usually operate on different routes from Barishal, to ferry an increasing number of tourists to the country's sole coral island during the busy travel season. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

December 17, 2019

Students came to the National Memorial on Monday to pay their respects to the freedom fighters on the Victory Day. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Bangladesh marks 48 years of victory

A flock of seagulls fly with a ship carrying tourists heading for St Martin's Island from Teknaf. The photo was taken in Naf River area. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

December 16, 2019

Surfer Quamrul Islam showing off his skills at St Martin's Island.

Surfing at St Martin's

Several objects made out of empty plastic bottles collected by the BD Clean members are displayed at the exhibition. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Exhibition of plastic bottles

National Heart Foundation, PROGGA and the Consumers Association of Bangladesh jointly organised a discussion at the CIRDAP Auditorium in Dhaka on Sunday to raise awareness about the risks of heart diseases from trans fat.

December 15, 2019

People from all walks of life pay tribute to martyred intellectuals of 1971 on Martyred Intellectuals Day on Saturday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Martyred Intellectuals Day

Several groups organised a discussion at the National Press Club in Dhaka on Saturday marking a decade of the judiciary’s separation from the executive.

December 14, 2019

Fishermen catching fish from rafts made of plastic bottles on the Naf River in Cox's Bazar. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

December 13, 2019

Police chased and detained two people after BNP leaders and activists shouted slogans in protest against the Supreme Court's decision to reject an appeal by party chief Khaleda Zia for bail in a graft case on Thursday.

Khaleda bail hearing

Sisters of siblings ‘Razzak’ and ‘Alamgir’, who died last night in a fire incident at Keraniganj plastic factory, mourn their loved ones. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Debris of burnt plastic factory in Keraniganj

Moslem Uddin Ahmed, the ruling Awami League candidate for the Chattogram-8 parliamentary constituency, submitting his nomination papers to the regional election office on Love Lane in the port city on Thursday ahead of the by-polls scheduled for Jan 13.

December 12, 2019

Unidentified miscreants set fire to a motorcycle amid tight security in front of the main gate of National Eidgah Ground in Dhaka on Wednesday, a day before the top court is to begin hearing the appeal for bail by BNP chief Khaleda Zia in a corruption case.

December 11, 2019

Passengers waiting for a ride at the Dhaka’s Mohakhali terminal amid an ongoing bus strike enforced by transport owners on the Mymensingh route. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Long-haul bus riders in trouble

People paid last respects to Ekushey Padak-winning freedom fighter, physicist and public intellectual Professor Ajoy Roy at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka on Tuesday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

December 10, 2019

A Dhaka University graduate putting her cap on her child's head at the TSC on Monday, the day of university's 52nd convocation. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Dhaka University's 52nd convocation

Dhaka University students wearing graduation gowns celebrate the convocation day. The university held its 52nd convocation on Monday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

December 09, 2019

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina addressing the 2017-18 National Film Awards ceremony at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka on Sunday. Photo: Saiful Islam Kallol

National Film Awards 2017-18

Transparency International, Bangladesh or TIB organised an anti-corruption human chain on Manik Miah Avenue in Dhaka on the eve of the International Anti-Corruption Day on Sunday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

December 08, 2019

Supporters of two factions of the Awami League scuffled and hurled plastic chairs at each other during the party’s Chattogram district north unit's council in Laldighi area on Saturday. Photo: Suman Babu

AL’s Ctg north unit council

A worker carries out repair work at the Martyred Intellectuals' Memorial at Dhaka’s Rayer Bazar ahead of the Martyred Intellectuals Day. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

December 07, 2019

Street food vendors selling Chitai Pitha with different types of Bharta in Dhaka's Farmgate. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Chitai Pitha with Bharta

Students of Stamford University organised a human-chain demonstration outside their Siddheswari campus in Dhaka on Friday against the alleged murder of their peer Rubaiyat Sharmin Rumpa.

December 06, 2019

Children are also buying TCB onion for their families as the corporation allows only one kg per customer. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Crowds for TCB onion

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam addressing a news conference at the Supreme Court Bar Association Auditorium after the pro-BNP lawyers stirred up chaos in the courtroom during the hearing of Khaleda Zia's bail appeal in a graft case on Thursday.

December 05, 2019

The students of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology announcing a plan to return to classes at a news briefing in Dhaka, after the authorities met their demands, including the expulsion of 26 students over the murder of their peer Abrar Fahad. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

December 04, 2019

Rakibul Hasan Regan, the militant sentenced to death for the 2016 Holey Artisan attack, was produced in Dhaka's anti-terrorism tribunal on Tuesday for the hearing of a case over the deadly raid on a house in Kalyanpur around a month after the cafe attack.

December 03, 2019

Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun addresses an event at Dhaka's IRF auditorium on Monday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

December 02, 2019

Jabale Nur Paribahan bus driver Jubayer Sumon crying as police escorting him from the court to jail in Dhaka on Sunday after he was handed life imprisonment for the deaths of two college students in a road crash that triggered widespread protests. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Verdict on Jabale Nur Bus killing students

A worker printing calendars in the capital’s Fakirapool on Sunday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

The New Year calendars

A procession was taken out on the Dhaka University campus on Sunday to celebrate the start of the month of victory in the War of Independence from Pakistan.

December 01, 2019

Passengers suffer at Dhaka's Sadarghat as an indefinite strike called by water transport workers cuts off river communication between the southern districts and the rest of the country.

November 30, 2019

Police detain BNP leader ABM Mosharraf Hossain after an event at the National Press Club in Dhaka on Friday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

November 29, 2019

Moazzem Hossain, former OC of Sonagazi Police Station in Feni, arriving at the Cyber Tribunal in Dhaka on Thursday ahead of the verdict in a digital security case. The tribunal sentenced him to eight years in jail for unlawfully releasing a video of a statement from madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi on social media before her death in an arson attack.

November 28, 2019

Police escorting Rakibul Hasan Regan, an operative of neo-JMB wearing a prayer cap emblazoned with the Islamic State’s insignia, after a Dhaka tribunal announced the verdict on Holey Artisan Bakery attack case on Wednesday.

Gulshan attack verdict

The launch terminal at Sadarghat was relatively empty after the Jatiya Sramik Oikya Parishad and Jatiya Sramik League called an impromptu strike on Wednesday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

November 27, 2019

Banani Police OC Salahuddin was hit by a grenade when he tried to enter into the restaurant. He succumbed to the splinter wounds in nearby United Hospital.

Looking back on Holey Artisan terror attack

A woman, who brought a baby with her, secures one kilogram onion after a long wait. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

TCB trucks sell imported onion

Activists of pro-BNP Jatiyatabadi Muktijuddha Dal clashed with police in front of the Supreme Court on Tuesday after blocking the road to demand the release of jailed BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

November 26, 2019

Members of 18 BFDC-based film associations formed a human chain in front of the state-run corporation at the capital's Tejgaon on Monday demanding implementation of new road transport law and protesting against road safety campaigner Ilias Kanchan's humiliation by the transport workers. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

November 25, 2019

A woman on an autorickshaw covers the nose of a child to save it from dust on a street at Postogola in Dhaka. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Dusty Dhaka

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina speaks ahead of a presentation on the government's plans to implement Vision 2041 programme aimed at transforming Bangladesh into a developed country within the next two decades.

November 24, 2019

Jubo League names Sheikh Fazle Shams Parash, the son of the organisation's founder Sheikh Fazlul Haq Mani, as its new chairman during the council session at Dhaka's Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh on Saturday.

Jubo League's 7th National Congress

The bodies of nine people who died after a collision between a bus and a microbus in Munshiganj's Sreenagar Upazila, were buried after a namaz-e-janaza in the district's Louhajang Upazila on Saturday.

November 23, 2019

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurating the first day-night Test between India and Bangladesh by ringing a bell at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Friday. Photo: PID

Hasina in Kolkata to watch Test

Onlookers gather after a bus-microbus collision on the Dhaka-Mawa Highway in Munshiganj's Srinagar Upazila on Friday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Fatal bus-microbus collision

The Matsya Bhaban intersection in Dhaka is bedecked with posters, banners and festoons containing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s photos on Friday as she is scheduled to inaugurate Jubo League’s national congress on Saturday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

November 22, 2019

A child fell asleep while waiting for a bus at Gabtoli bus terminal in Dhaka on Thursday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Knock-on effects of cancelled strike

A shop owner breaks down in tears after his valuables were destroyed by a fire that erupted at the capital's New Rajdhani Super Market on Wednesday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

November 21, 2019

Some commuters hired pickup vans to reach their destinations as public transports were sparse on the roads on Wednesday due to the strike called by transport workers demanding revision of the road transport law. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Transport strike rages on

A man sleeps inside a mosquito net on a footbridge used by school children to cross the road in Dhaka’s Mirpur-13. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

November 20, 2019

Customers thronged shops at Karwan Bazar in Dhaka to buy salt on Tuesday following rumours of a price hike.

November 19, 2019

A policeman checks the registration documents of a vehicle in Dhaka’s Manik Miah Avenue on Monday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

New traffic law kicks in

Shahadat Hossain Selim, former joint secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, announces a new committee, led by Abdul Karim Abbasi, at a news conference in Dhaka on Monday. Abbasi and Selim were dropped from the central committee formed by LDP President Oli Ahmad, a retired colonel. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

November 18, 2019

Fire service personnel conducting a rescue drive after a gas pipeline exploded on the ground floor of a building in Patharghata Brick Field Road in Chattogram on Sunday, leaving at least seven people dead. Photo: Suman Babu

Gas line explosion in Chattogram

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal speaks at the launch of ‘National Strategy for Prevention of Money Laundering and Combating Financing of Terrorism 2019- 2021’ at the InterContinental hotel in Dhaka on Sunday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

November 17, 2019

Najma Begum and her son Nafiz, who were injured and lost Najma’s daughter Sohamoni in a train accident in Brahmanbaria’s Kasba Upazila on Nov 12, are being treated at the Pangu Hospital in Dhaka where Najma’s husband, injured in the same accident, has also been admitted. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

People injured in B’baria train crash

Children pick up the rotten onions discarded by traders from the Karnaphuli River in Chattogram. Photo: Suman Babu

November 16, 2019

Mohammad Iftekhar Mahmud, a man with visual impairment, and Salma Mahbub, a woman with walking disabilities, came to the Officers' Club in Dhaka on Friday to pay taxes for their organisation Bangladeshi Systems Change Advocacy Network or B-SCAN at the Income Tax Fair. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Income Tax Fair on holiday

Sheepa Hafiza, the executive director at the legal aid and human rights organisation Ain O Salish Kendra or ASK, speaking at a press conference at their office in Dhaka's Lalmatia on Friday after a Rajuk mobile court ordered them to move the office within two months on Thursday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

November 15, 2019

A mobile court of the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection fined a trader during a drive on the wholesale onion market in Dhaka's Mirpur-1 on Friday amid soaring prices. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Mobile court amid soaring onion prices

Plastic waste from different parts of the capital are set out to dry along the slopes of the embankments at Old Dhaka's Lalbagh area. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Plastic shards by the Buriganga

Dhaka’s rail links to the northern and southern regions are suspended after a Rangpur Express train from the capital went off the tracks near the Ullapara Railway Station in Sirajganj on Thursday.

November 14, 2019

Chattogram Metropolitan Police have arrested two staff members of the Election Commission's offices on charges of issuing counterfeit NIDs to Rohingya refugees.

November 13, 2019

Rival groups of Jubo League's Chattogram Metropolitan unit clashed during an event marking the organisation's 47th anniversary at Laldighi Maidan in the port city on Tuesday. Photo: Suman Babu

November 12, 2019

Grameenphone Chief Executive Officer Michael Foley, Chief Marketing Officer Yasir Azman and Head of Regulatory Affairs Hossain Sadat speak to reporters at a hotel in Dhaka on Monday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

November 11, 2019

Members of a family returning to home from a shelter centre at the Khulna’s Dacope Upazila after a cyclone on Sunday. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Bulbul devastatation in Khulna

Billboards containing provisions of the new transport law have been installed in various parts of Dhaka on Monday to create awareness on traffic rules. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

November 10, 2019

A pillion rider carries an umbrella on a motorcycle at Karwan Bazar in Dhaka on Saturday as rains hit the capital under the influence of a cyclone. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Cyclone triggers rains

Family of nonagenarian Joytun arrives at Mongla Port High School, which has been turned into a temporary storm shelter, in Bagerhat on Saturday as Cyclone Bulbul nears the coast. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

November 09, 2019