Flood caused by a breach in an embankment inundates a boro field at Mohalio Haor in Sunamganj's Tahirpur upazila. Several days of heavy rainfall and water rushing from hills in neighbouring India led to the flooding in four districts of Sylhet division. According to an estimate of Sylhet district administration, boro crop on around 74,000 hectares have gone under water since last week. Photo: Collected
An HSC examinee with her parents caught in a traffic jam near an exam venue in the capital yesterday. Photos: Rashed Shumon
The city sees a huge congestion during the beginning and ending of the exams, but some lucky examinees were able to hitch a ride on a police vehicle in the Bakshi Bazar area. Photos: Rashed Shumon
Family members wait patiently for the test takers. Photos: Rashed Shumon
People wade through a waterlogged road on rickshaws and rickshaw vans at Gate No 2 in Chittagong city's Sholoshahar area after a sudden rain yesterday afternoon. Photo: Anurup Kanti Das
A delegation of National Defence College, Bangladesh at a discussion with senior journalists of The Daily Star at the newspaper's office in the capital yesterday. The team, led by senior directing staff Air Vice Marshal M Sanaul Huq, GUP, ndc, psc, GD(P), included five faculty members, 80 course members and two staff officers. The college organises visits to various ministries, institutions and media houses as part of its training curricula. Photos: Star
A course member speaking at the event. Photos: Star
Hindus taking their traditional holy dip (Ashtami Snan) in the Brahmaputra at Rajghat in Langolbandh of Narayanganj yesterday. Photo: Star
