A rickshaw-van with schoolchildren on the wrong side of the street in front of the InterContinental Dhaka hotel in the capital yesterday afternoon. Many are indifferent to the risks of travelling against traffic although accidents happen quite frequently. Photo: Amran Hossain
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina consoles the wife of ailing freedom fighter and actor Farid Ali as the PM hands over a cheque to her as financial assistance at the Prime Minister's Office yesterday. Photo: PID
Chittagong city is long plagued by a water crisis, which got worse around two weeks back, but there is a contrasting picture of the activities of the Water and Sewerage Authority (Wasa). On one hand the government agency struggles to meet the water demand, and on the other a huge amount of water is wasted every day through a leaking supply line. Photo: Anurup Kanti Das
And slum people and an auto-rickshaw driver make use of some of the wasted water. The photos were taken in Tiger Pass area yesterday. Photo: Anurup Kanti Das
Outgoing Russian Ambassador to Bangladesh Alexander A Nikolaev calls on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her office in Dhaka yesterday. Photo: PID
Heaps of earth and construction material are kept on Hatirjheel- Saatrasta Link Road in the capital for quite a few days, completely blocking a footpath and causing huge sufferings to pedestrians. Photo: Star
The mountain of earth seen in the left side is not the bank. It is an evidence of how people are pressing ahead with their plan to gradually fill the river and grab the land. This is not going on at some particular places but almost everywhere in the country where land scarcity is a major cause of conflict. The photo was taken in Shinnirtek area of the capital's Mirpur 1 Wednesday. Photo: Md Kawsar
Prime Minister's International Affairs Adviser Gowher Rizvi, centre, unveiling “The Agartala Doctrine”, the latest book by BBC veteran Subir Bhaumik, at Pathak Samabesh in the capital's Shahbagh on Wednesday. In the book, the writer, fourth from left, takes a leaf out of Agartala's historic relations with Bangladesh to propose a new national doctrine for the way India deals with its neighbours. Photo: Collected
