Stockpile of illegally felled forest trees for making the bricks. Photo: Sanjoy Kumar Barua
Defying government bans, a brick kiln burns logs to make bricks at Kagojikhola in Naikkhangchhari of Bandarban and uses chimneys that are shorter than the minimum height set by the government. Photo: Sanjoy Kumar Barua
Recipients of Prime Minister Gold Medal 2013-14 with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the award distribution ceremony at the Prime Minister's Office in the capital yesterday. The University Grants Commission organised the function. Photo: PID
A child walks by an open sewerage pit in Peyarabagh area of Moghbazar under Ward 35 of Dhaka North City Corporation. Unsafe practices go unabated in the country although the High Court only a few days ago directed police to sue six government employees and a contractor for negligence and violation of public safety after a man, Shanu Miah, died falling into an uncovered box culvert in the capital's Paltan area on March 6. The photo was
taken on Tuesday. Photo: Anisur Rahman
With the Comilla City Corporation polls approaching, two prominent mayoral aspirants, from left, Awami League's Anjum Sultana Sima and BNP's Monirul Hoque Shakoo are going door to door to woo voters. The city will go to polls for a second time on March 30. Photo: Star
