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Besides motorcycle drivers, pillion riders are also getting aware about the need to wear helmet in Dhaka. This photo was taken from Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue on Sunday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

September 23, 2018

Gono Forum chief Kamal Hossain speaks to Jukto Front Chairman and Bikalpadhara Bangladesh President AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury at a rally of the Jatiya Oikya Prokriya in Dhaka on Saturday.

Jatiya Oikya Prokriya’s rally

People of all ages, including child labourers, work at the metal casting factories in Dhaka’s Doyaganj for a weekly wage. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Light engineering far from easy

A women domestic workers union holds a demonstration on Saturday to demand that domestic workers’ rights be secured by ratifying section 189 of the ILO convention and by additions to the labour laws.

September 22, 2018

Ashura processions

A member of Bangladesh Scouts helping an elderly woman cross the Bijoy Soroni road in Dhaka on Friday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

September 21, 2018

Unauthorised battery-powered rickshaws are seen in different parts of Dhaka. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Battery-powered rickshaws in Dhaka

Police foiled at the Karwan Bazar's SAARC Fountain intersection a march taken out by the Left Democratic Alliance from the National Press Club which was headed towards the Election Commission office in Dhaka on Thursday. Several activists were injured.

September 20, 2018

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

September 19, 2018

A traditional boat race is organised on the Babur Khal on Gopalganj’s Kotalipara to celebrate Vishwakarma Puja on Tuesday.

September 18, 2018

Dhaka residents ride a rickshaw through the Kashful flower fields at Dhaka’s Aftabnagar. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Autumn brings Kashful blooms

Dust clouds darken the Dhaka-Mawa Road in Dhaka’s Dholaipar. The construction of a four-lane highway has led to an increase in dust polluting the area. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

September 17, 2018

The workers cut and clean the bamboos in the canal and also set them up for display. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

The canal-side bamboo market

Nearly half of the footpath and the road in Dhaka’s Mirpur-1 is taken up by hawkers and temporary traders. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Hawkers gobble up Mirpur road

SHUJON holds a discussion on the upcoming parliamentary elections at the National Press Club on Sunday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

September 16, 2018

Police recovered a huge haul of marijuana from illegal constructions on a piece of land of Bangladesh Railway at Chattogram’s CRB area on Saturday. Photo: Suman Babu

September 15, 2018

Students taking Dhaka University’s 'Ga' unit admission test for the Faculty of Business Studies.

Battle begins for DU admission

Several garment workers' organisations demonstrate in front of the National Press Club on Friday demanding a monthly minimum wage of Tk 16,000.

September 14, 2018

The Mulfatganj Life Care Hospital building sinks as the river erodes its banks. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Naria sinking into Padma

Executive Chairman of Bangladesh Investment Development Authority or BIDA Kazi M Aminul Islam speaking at an event organised by the Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry in Dhaka’s Westin hotel on Thursday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

September 13, 2018

BNP leaders and activists stage a symbolic hunger strike demanding the release of Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Dhaka on Wednesday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

BNP’s hunger strike

After remaining closed for four years due to renovation works, former Sheraton and Ruposhi Bangla hotel will reopen as the InterContinental Hotel Dhaka on Thursday.

September 12, 2018

MIND THE GAP: An expansion joint on the Bangladesh-China Friendship Bridge in Postogola in Dhaka has lost its rubber, leaving pedestrians at risk on the walkways. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

September 11, 2018

Workers unload hilsa from trawlers at the fish landing station at Chattogram’s Firingibazar. Photo: Suman Babu

Hilsa bonanza

The High Court orders the government to remove illegal structures from Dhaka’s Hatirjheel-Begunbari area in seven days. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

September 10, 2018

The RAB seized flour and rice in a raid on the Mohammadpur Krishi Market on Sunday. The consignment for a government scheme for the poor were sold illegally from a government warehouse at Tejgaon

September 9, 2018

A month-long traffic awareness programme is launched at Dhaka’s Shahbagh on Saturday. DMP Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia, Dhaka University Vice Chancellor Md Akhtaruzzaman and columnist Syed Abul Maksud were present at the event. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

September 8, 2018

A policeman is riding a motorcycle bearing the number plate written in English on Dhaka's Mirpur Road on Thursday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Number plates in English

Work for digging a 100-foot wide canal on both sides of the Kuril-Purbachal Link Road under the supervision of Bangladesh Army is in progress. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

September 7, 2018

Fire burnt down a number of shops and houses at a slum in Chattogram’s Askar Dighi area on Thursday. Photo: Suman Babu

September 6, 2018

A visitor looking at photographs at an exhibition organised by the government, the Inter Sector Coordination Group and the UN on the Rohingyas at Bay’s Edgewater in Gulshan on the closing day on Wednesday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

September 5, 2018

Water jars are being destroyed in an anti-adulteration drive. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Crackdown on shady water purifiers

State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak speaks at the first Daraz Seller Summit at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka on Tuesday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

September 04, 2018

Motorcycle riders wearing helmets travel in Dhaka on Monday amidst strengthened monitoring by the law enforcers. This photo was taken from the Airport Road. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Efforts to bring order to Dhaka traffic

People from all walks of life pay their last tributes to the writer and Liberation War Heroine (Birangana) Roma Chowdhury at the Chattogram Central Shaheed Minar. She was accorded state honours. Photo: Suman Babu

September 03, 2018

A man was killed on Sunday after a train rammed a bus at the Baroiarhat rail crossing in Chattogram’s Mirsharai on Sunday.

September 2, 2018

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurating the newly built '7 March Bhavan' at Dhaka University’s Rokeya Hall on Saturday.

September 1, 2018

Guests appreciate works of artist Kazi Sayed Ahmed at an exhibition titled Surface as Symbol at La Galerie, Alliance Française de Dhaka, after inauguration on Friday.

August 31, 2018

Jaywalkers do not appear eager to use footbridges. This photo of pedestrians crossing the street with speeding vehicles on it and a footbridge only a few feet away was taken from Uttara's Abdullahpur on Thursday.

August 30, 2018

The Rapid Action Battalion arrested five people, allegedly members of a gold smuggling ring, with 11 kilograms of the precious metal on them at the Gabtoli Bus Terminal in Dhaka in the wee hours of Wednesday.

August 29, 2018

The waste materials from the tanneries at the Savar leather industry city are dumped in this pool. Locals say the waste materials are also dumped in the Dhaleshwari river in the dark of the night. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Harindhara, another Hazaribagh!

Petrobangla officials coming out of the Anti-Corruption Commission offices in Dhaka's Segunbagicha on Tuesday after grilling over the disappearance of coal at Barapukuria mine. The agency questioned eight officials of the state-owned company on Tuesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

August 28, 2018

Bangladesh Investment Development Authority Executive Chairman Kazi M Aminul Islam speaking at a function to mark the signing of a deal between ACI Motors and Foton Motor Group on dealership and local assembling in Dhaka on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

August 27, 2018

The place where a cattle market had been thrown up at Kalunagar in Hazaribagh before the Eid-ul-Azha is yet to be cleared of wastes, three days after the festival. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Cattle waste still litter Dhaka

People crowded the Balu river bank in Dhaka’s Beraid for boat trips on Sunday, three days after the Eid-ul-Azha. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Boat trips on Balu River

After Eid holidays, people return to Dhaka but the city roads are yet to get back to their usual congestion. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

August 26, 2018

A son helps his mother get off a launch as they return to Dhaka after observing Eid with their relatives. This photo was taken from Sadarghat Launch Terminal on Saturday.

Eid holidaymakers return to Dhaka

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader visits the construction site of a tunnel under the Karnaphuli river in Chattogram’s Patenga on Saturday. Bangladesh is building the $10.56 billion tunnel with China’s help. The 3.4km tunnel will have four lanes in two tubes.

August 25, 2018

Holidaymakers flocked to the Bangladesh National Zoo in Dhaka’s Mirpur on Friday, the day after the Eid-ul-Azha. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Dhaka Zoo draws Eid holidaymakers

Dhaka’s Shahbagh intersection, one of the busiest thoroughfares in the capital, is largely devoid of traffic on Friday afternoon. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

August 24, 2018

Children enjoying a ride at Shishu Park in Dhaka a day after the Eid-ul-Azha on Thursday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Eid amusement in Dhaka

Dhaka streets look empty as many residents have decided to spend their Eid holidays outside the city. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Eid holidays in Dhaka

Traders in Old Dhaka are busy preserving cowhides bought from seasonal traders on Thursday after the Eid-ul-Azha. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Hides preserved after Eid slaughter

A RAB team sets up a security checkpoint at Hatirjheel even as Dhaka seems empty during the Eid holidays. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

August 23, 2018

Wholesalers buying rawhide of cattle slaughtered on Eid-ul-Azha from seasonal traders at Nababpur in Dhaka on Wednesday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Eid cattle hide

Strict security measures were in place in the National Eidgah area on Wednesday morning. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Prayers at Eidgah

The first prayer is held at the Baitul Mukarram Mosque on Wednesdaymorning. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Baitul Mukarram Eid prayers

City corporation workers began cleaning up Dhaka on Wednesday morning to clear waste from the cattle slaughtered on Eid-ul-Azha. This photo was taken from Old Dhaka’s Bangshal. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

August 22, 2018

Passengers waited for hours together at the Airport Railway Station in Dhaka on Tuesday due to train delays. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Exodus from Dhaka continues

The streets of Dhaka are deserted after holidaymakers left the capital to celebrate the Eid-ul-Azha at their ancestral homes. This photo was taken at Shahbagh on Tuesday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

August 21, 2018

People taking a cow to their home after buying it at a Dhaka market. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

August 20, 2018

Though many cows have arrived at the Korbani Market in Dhaka’s Shonir Akhra, there are few customers. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

August 19, 2018

Blacksmiths display knives, machetes and chopping instruments ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, when Muslims sacrifice animals. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Blacksmiths busy before Eid

A cow named ‘Malinga’ brought from India’s Chennai is on sale for Tk 600,000 at Dhupkhola Cattle Market ahead of Eid-ul-Azha. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

August 18, 2018

A trader unloading cattle from a truck at Gabtoli. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Cattle being brought to capital

Eid travellers leave Dhaka by train from the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka on Friday for their hometowns. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Eid exodus begins

People have started leaving Dhaka by buses from the Gabtoli Bus Terminal on Friday for their village homes to observe the Eid-ul-Azha. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

August 17, 2018

Colleagues pay their last respects to Golam Sarwar by placing wreaths on the coffin of the veteran journalist at a ground next to the Daily Samakal office at Tejgaon in Dhaka on Thursday.

Final farewell to Golam Sarwar

A farm at Dhaka's Motijheel is charging between Tk 1 million and Tk 1.5 million for a camel before the Eid-ul-Azha. The photo was taken on Thursday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Sacrificial camel, Dumba

A man is snapped in Farmgate pulling a rickshaw-van loaded with mats used for sacrificing animals during Eid-ul-Azha from Dhaka's Karwan Bazar to Mirpur on Thursday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

August 16, 2018

Bangabandhu Sangskritik Jote organised a candlelit vigil at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka on Wednesday to commemorate Bangabandhu and most members of his family killed in the Aug 15, 1975 massacre. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

August 15, 2018

Farmers glide toward the floating market with a boat full of guavas. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Floating market in Kirtipasha

Standard Chartered Bangladesh’s Head of Corporate Affairs Bitopi Das Chowdhury, CEO Naser Ezaz Bijoy and Head of Retail Banking Aditya Mandloi appeared before the press for the launch of MortgageOne, a home financing solution for the bank’s retail clients, in Dhaka on Tuesday.

August 14, 2018

Members of Bangladesh Scouts scuffled with jaywalkers to stop them crossing the streets illegally. The photo was taken from Banani’s Kakoli in Dhaka on Monday. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Policing jaywalkers

Traders unload cattle for the Eid-ul-Azha from a trawler near the market set up at the Postogola Crematorium Pier in Dhaka on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

August 13, 2018

Long tailback on Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue in Dhaka on Sunday afternoon. The photo was taken from Banglamotor. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

August 12, 2018

Women queue for advance train tickets at Kamalapur Rail Station on Saturday. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Fourth day of advance ticket sales

Journalist organisations protest attacks on reporters during the road safety protests in front of the National Press Club on Saturday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

August 11, 2018

Students organised a human-chain demonstration against attacks on road safety protesters and cases against them on 'fabricated charges' outside the National Press Club in Dhaka on Friday. The students also demanded release of those arrested during protests. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

August 10, 2018

Commuters had to wait for long to catch a ride back home after work at Farmgate due to lack of public transport on the last working day of the week on Thursday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

August 09, 2018

A woman displays her advance train ticket bought from the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka on Wednesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Early train tickets for Eid

An underpass constructed for the pedestrians’ movement at Shanir Akhra under the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway turned into a dump yard. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

August 08, 2018

A woman with two children jaywalking after scaling a road-divider as speeding vehicles pass by while a footbridge is barely a few metres away at Shanir Akhra on Tuesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Dangerous jaywalking

The long wait is over—her smile says it all. A customer secured a ticket to her desired destination for Eid. The photo was taken at Dhaka's Gabtoli bus terminal on Tuesday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Rush for Eid tickets

Garage workers having a hectic time repairing buses damaged during student protests for road safety measures and justice for road accidents. This photo was taken from Kajla in Dhaka’s Jatrabarhi on Tuesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

August 07, 2018

Guests attend a panel discussion on the “Role of Media in Disaster Management: Earthquake Perspective” at the Army Multipurpose Complex on Monday on the second day of training.

Disaster Management: Ideas and Implementation

Few passengers were at Dhaka bus terminals on Monday, despite an end to an unannounced strike by bus operators amid student protests for safer roads. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Limited bus services in Dhaka

Police and outsiders clash with students protesting for safer roads at East West University in Dhaka’s Rampura and Aftabnagar. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

August 06, 2018

A group of youths launching an assault on students who were out on the streets of Dhanmondi on Sunday to demand safe roads after a series of deadly accidents.

Day 8 of student demonstrations

Many are forced to take risky rides on train roofs as transporters have taken buses off the road in response to student protests for safe roads. The photo shows the situation at Tejgaon/Moghbazar in Dhaka on Sunday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

August 05, 2018

A traffic signal hangs from a rope in the Uttara House Building area. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

August 04, 2018

A bus in flames as angry people set it on fire after the bus killed a motorcyclist in Dhaka’s Moghbazar.

August 03, 2018

Students demonstrate blocking Rampura Bridge. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Students brave rains to protest

Students set a traffic police sergeant’s motorcycle on fire in Science Laboratory area in Dhaka on Thursday amid a movement for safe roads.

August 02, 2018

Students from schools and colleges protest the deaths of two fellows in a road accident by blocking the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Shanir Akhra area. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Dhaka crippled

Buses occupy a long stretch of the road for illegal parking from Jatrabari to Dolairpar disrupting traffic just beneath the Mayor Mohammad Hanif Flyover. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

August 01, 2018

Students torched a bus at Mirpur Road in Science Laboratory on Tuesday to protest against the deaths of two college students in a bus accident at Airport Road in the capital. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

July 31, 2018

Students block Dhaka’s Airport Road to protest the deaths of two Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College students in a bus accident. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Students occupy Airport Road

Votes are counted at the Barishal Islamia Government Primary School on Monday after polls closed at 4pm. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Three cities go to the polls

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina unveils a book titled “3,053 Days” that portrays Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s time in jail. Photo: PID

July 30, 2018

Ballot boxes are dispatched to the polling stations from the Barishal regional election office. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Countdown to the election day

Ballot boxes are taken from the Sylhet Abul Maal Abdul Muhith Sports Complex to polling centres across the city.

July 29, 2018

Posters of mayoral candidates for Barishal city elections cover the city’s Girja intersection. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Election fever grips Barishal

Three national professors receive receptions accorded by the Dhaka University Alumni Association at the university’s Nabab Nawab Ali Senate Bhaban on Saturday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

July 28, 2018

A visitor looks at a painting at the 14th Anniversary Exhibition of Galleri Kaya on Friday.

Galleri Kaya turns 14

Workers lay bricks on a key road damaged by rains in Dhaka’s Jurain. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

July 27, 2018

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina administers the oath of office to newly elected Gazipur Mayor Zahangir Alam at her office in Dhaka on Thursday.

July 26, 2018

Polling ends in Pakistan

A woman works as a bus conductor as part of a new service launched by Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation exclusively for female passengers in Dhaka. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

July 25, 2018

Farmers carrying pineapple baskets on both sides of the bicycles go in line to the market. Photo: nayan kumar

Madhupur’s pineapple market

Jatiya Sramik Federation, an organisation of workers, rallied and marched the streets in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka on Tuesday demanding that sacked workers of Fareast Islami Life Insurance Company be reinstated to their jobs.

July 24, 2018

A pedestrian goes under water as it is impossible to locate the hole, dug by the authorities, on a submerged street. The photo is taken in Dhaka's Motijheel on Monday.

Dhaka waterlogged

A demonstration is held in front of the National Press Club on Monday to protest an attack on Amar Desh Acting Editor Mahmudur Rahman in front of a Kushtia court on Sunday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

July 23, 2018

Hindus wearing costumes of Lord Krishna and Radha during Ulto (reverse) Rath Yatra in Dhaka on Sunday.

Ulto Rath Yatra

A group of students staging a human-chain demonstration in front of the Raju Sculpture on the Dhaka University campus on Sunday against attacks on quota protesters. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

July 22, 2018

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina waves to a crowd at a reception organised in her honour by the Awami League at Dhaka’s Suhrawardy Udyan on Saturday.

In honour of Hasina

Commuters suffer due to the scarcity of public transports in Dhaka on Saturday afternoon as the police restrict traffic during a reception organised for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by the Awami League. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

July 21, 2018

Students and guardians collect information from a stall of the two-day Study in India Expo at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka after the opening on Friday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

July 20, 2018

Students celebrate publication of HSC exam result at RAJUK Uttara Model College in Dhaka on Thursday.

HSC results published

Residents of Tejgaon’s Kuniparha in Dhaka take rest under trees along the Hatirjheel lake during a power cut on Thursday, the hottest day of the capital this year. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

July 19, 2018

The streets of Dhaka are decorated with posters, festoons and billboards on Wednesday ahead of a reception for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by her Awami League party at the Suhrawardy Udyan on Saturday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

July 18, 2018

Hindu women on their way to release lamps in the Burhiganga River by the end of the Bipottarini Puja on Tuesday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Bipottarini Puja

The work to construct a second bridge on the Shitalakkhya River at Kanchpur on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway is under way on Monday. The work is scheduled to end in December. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

July 17, 2018

Low-lying areas in Narayanganj go underwater due to the monsoon season, raising the demand for boats for travel and fishing. The photo shows boat traders displaying new and used crafts at Kaikartek. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

July 16, 2018

Attackers beat a student in front of the Bangabandhu Tower at the Dhaka University during a demonstration demanding the release of quota reform protesters on Sunday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Teachers, students assaulted at DU

Barriers with safe driving messages have been set up on the Dhaka University road in order to control traffic. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

July 15, 2018

Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh unveils the plaque for the new Indian Visa Application Centre in Dhaka. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Indian visa centre at Jamuna Park

Passengers wait for the first Hajj flight to take off at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Saturday. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

The first Hajj flight