Young bookworms gather at a stall on the premises of Amar Ekushey Granthamela in Dhaka on the first day of the month-long book fair yesterday. Photo: Star
An excavator in operation in a lake at Amtala intersection as a Barisal City Corporation project involving Tk 3.17 crore is underway to solve the city's waterlogging by re-excavating a pond and a lake. Photo: Star
Hindus worship Saraswati, seeking blessings of the goddess of knowledge and learning, at a temple in Jagannath Hall at Dhaka University, on the occasion of Saraswati Puja, which was also celebrated elsewhere in the country yesterday. Photo: Prabir Das
A picture has brought down outrage and condemnation over a school and a local chairman in Chandpur's Haimchar. People expressed anger at a photo in the social media that shows the local elected public representative walking over a “human bridge” formed by young students of the school. Chairman of Haimchar Upazila Parishad, Nur Hossain Patwary, who attended the annual sports event as chief guest at Nilkomal Osmania High School on January 30, said students formed a symbolic “human bridge” and he walked over their bodies on their insistence. He claimed awarding Tk 5,000 to the students. The school's headmaster, Mosharraf Hossain, claimed this has been practised in the school since 2002 and that the idea was conceived by his colleague and game teacher Prashanta Kumar Das. Das couldn't be contacted for comments. The headmaster also showed a file photo from 2004 where a UNO is seen walking over one such “human bridge” made by students back then. Photo: collected
Two motorbikes are being taken away by police for illegal parking in the city's Shahbagh yesterday. Photo: Prabir Das
