Police guard the Shia mosque in the capital's Mohammadpur and search people at Hossaini Dalan in Old Dhaka as security is beefed up at the places a day after assailants shot one dead and injured three others at a Bogra Shia mosque on Thursday. Photo: Star
Hospital linen is washed in the overly polluted Buriganga and dried on its bank regularly, creating chances that the "cleaned" cloth will do more harm than good. The practice has been going on for a long time but no preventive measure was seen yet. The photo was taken yesterday. Photo: Banglar Chokh
Monks at Kathin Chibar Dan, one of the largest annual religious festivals of the Buddhist community in Chittagong Hill Tracts celebrated yesterday at Rajar Math in Bandarban. The festival marks the conclusion of a three-month seclusion of monks who meditate inside monasteries for self-edification and atonement for mankind. Photo: Banglar Chokh
The mother of Dr Milon, along with other family members, extreme right, lays a wreath at his memorial near TSC of Dhaka University
yesterday, marking his 25th death anniversary. Dr Shamsul Alam Khan Milon, joint secretary of Bangladesh Medical Association, was shot dead on November 27, 1990, by the then autocratic regime of HM Ershad in an attempt to suppress a democratic movement. Photo: Star
Delegates pose for a family photo at the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Valletta, Malta November 27, 2015. Queen Elizabeth II opened the summit. Commonwealth leaders yesterday unveiled a new $1 billion Green Finance Facility to support environmental projects within the 53-nation bloc as the race against climate change intensifies. Photo: Reuters
