An improvised motorised three-wheeler, locally known as Nasimon, carries construction workers to their destinations, using a major thoroughfare of the capital yesterday. Despite a ban, such risky vehicles are often sighted on the city streets, while low-income people prefer these for cheap travels. The photo was taken in Nayapaltan. Photo: Anisur Rahman
A plot of agricultural land is being filled with sand for a housing-building project in the flood flow zone near Second Dhaleshwari Bridge on Dhaka-Mawa highway. With arable land declining, the government has repeatedly called upon people not to fill such lands and floodplains but to no avail. The photo was taken yesterday. Photo: Anisur Rahman
A concrete mixture machine, which is being used for construction of a drain, occupies a large portion of Zindabazar-Jallarpar road in Sylhet city, hampering movement of pedestrians and vehicles. The photo was taken recently. Photo: Sheikh Nasir
Fire fighters spraying water on an Audi R8 after it caught fire due to "a mechanical glitch" near Radisson hotel in the capital yesterday. Customs intelligence officials seized the expensive luxury car in May last year on the charge of tax dodging. It was being taken yesterday to the customs house at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport from the customs intelligence office in Kakrail. Photo: Prabir Das
Photo: Prabir Das
With the two ends of a cotton towel tightly holding more than a dozen ducks, a man walks to the market for making a sale of the birds. The man uses an indigenous way while his two hands can barely serve the purpose. The photo was taken in front of Dhaka Government Science College in the capital's Tejgaon yesterday. Photo: Anisur Rahman
