PITCHERS USED AS HEAT-REPELLENTS: In a rather unusual discovery, excavators found more than 300 earthen pitchers meticulously lined up underneath the concrete slabs of the ground floor of Idrakpur Fort in Munshiganj yesterday. The pitchers -- believed to have been installed around 70 years ago, towards the end of the British Raj -- were perhaps used as heat-repellents to keep the rooms of the 350-year-old Mughal establishment cool. Photo: Star
PITCHERS USED AS HEAT-REPELLENTS: In a rather unusual discovery, excavators found more than 300 earthen pitchers meticulously lined up underneath the concrete slabs of the ground floor of Idrakpur Fort in Munshiganj yesterday. The pitchers -- believed to have been installed around 70 years ago, towards the end of the British Raj -- were perhaps used as heat-repellents to keep the rooms of the 350-year-old Mughal establishment cool. Photo: Star
PITCHERS USED AS HEAT-REPELLENTS: In a rather unusual discovery, excavators found more than 300 earthen pitchers meticulously lined up underneath the concrete slabs of the ground floor of Idrakpur Fort in Munshiganj yesterday. The pitchers -- believed to have been installed around 70 years ago, towards the end of the British Raj -- were perhaps used as heat-repellents to keep the rooms of the 350-year-old Mughal establishment cool. Photo: Star
Nepalese patients are carried out of a hospital building as a 7.3 magnitude earthquake hits the country, in Kathmandu yesterday .
A mother tries to comfort her child. The strong tremor followed by powerful aftershocks killed dozens of people and brought fresh terror to a traumatised Nepal.
French President Francois Hollande (L) listening to Cuban historical leader Fidel Castro during a meeting in Havana on Monday. Hollande's Cuba trip, the first ever by a French leader, has highlighted the simultaneously cooperative and competitive relationship between the United States and the European Union as both look to increase business with Havana. Hollande called for an end to the US embargo on Cuba. Photo: Afp
Protesting the death of Yasmin Akter in acid attack in Narayanganj and marking the founding anniversary of Acid Survivors Foundation, the organisation forms a human chain in front of Jatiya Press Club in the capital yesterday. Yasmin died after miscreants had thrown acid on her on March 23. Photo: Amran Hossain
