This serene archway made of foliage giving shade to those passing under from Keraniganj to Mawa is set to disappear within a month or so to give way to development as the authorities concerned continually chop down hundreds of trees to widen the stretch of road. It will take at least a couple of years for a fraction of the greenery to return once saplings are planted afresh. The photos were taken yesterday. Photo: Anisur Rahman
This serene archway made of foliage giving shade to those passing under from Keraniganj to Mawa is set to disappear within a month or so to give way to development as the authorities concerned continually chop down hundreds of trees to widen the stretch of road. It will take at least a couple of years for a fraction of the greenery to return once saplings are planted afresh. The photos were taken yesterday. Photo: Anisur Rahman
This serene archway made of foliage giving shade to those passing under from Keraniganj to Mawa is set to disappear within a month or so to give way to development as the authorities concerned continually chop down hundreds of trees to widen the stretch of road. It will take at least a couple of years for a fraction of the greenery to return once saplings are planted afresh. The photos were taken yesterday. Photo: Anisur Rahman
Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus receiving an honorary doctor of science degree, conferred by Chandigarh University, from Chancellor Santam Sing Sandhu and Vice Chancellor Dr RS Bawa at its convocation ceremony in Punjab, India on Sunday. Prof Yunus was also appointed a member of the Executive Council, the university's highest decision-making body. He was the convocation speaker at the event. Photo: Yunus Centre
Absence of adequate safety measures has resulted in an iron rod falling off this under-construction flyover stretching from Muradpur to the Ispahani intersection in Chittagong city on Sunday evening, damaging a car passing underneath. On June 29, 2012, a rickshaw-puller made a lucky escape with just bruises after a concrete girder of another flyover at Bahaddarhat, then under-construction, collapsed. Photo: Anurup Kanti Das
Defying a government ban on carrying more than one pillion passenger on a motorbike, a man takes three children on a bike. He tied two of them with a traditional towel behind him as if it would lessen the risk of a fall. The photo was taken in the capital's Shahbagh. Photo: Prabir Das
