Officials of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company snap an illegal gas connection in Gazipur city yesterday. More than 1,000 illegal lines in Bashir Sarak and Telipara areas of the city were disconnected. Photo: Star
A grief-stricken Abdul Aziz barely manages to walk out of his house through a narrow path due to a boundary wall erected by a neighbouring factory owner almost blocking the entrance to his house at Maona in Sreepur of Gazipur. Locals yesterday formed a human chain, not in picture, protesting the act. Aziz, 65, a former dried fish trader, said he had been living there for the last 22 years and using the road, and the wall was built two months ago. However, Khurshed Alam, son of the owner, Haji Nurul Huda, who moved to the area seven years ago, said Aziz was using the road "illegally". Aziz said the factory owner wanted to buy the 5.25 decimals of land where he lived, but refused to sell. Talking to The Daily Star, local union parishad member Mubarak Hossain said the family had been confined due to the wall, and he tried to settle the issue but failed. Locals' support is needed to help Aziz, he added. Photo: Star
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hands over the documents of a land plot to a police officer at the Prime Minister's Office in the capital yesterday. The plot was under a housing scheme for police officers, which was implemented by Bangladesh Police Officers' Multipurpose Cooperative Society. A total of 20 officers received plot documents yesterday. Photo: PID
Holding a polythene sheet overhead, a woman tries to protect herself and a dismantled wooden bed from rainwater as she transports on a rickshaw at Shahbagh. Photos: Anisur Rahman, Firoz Ahmed
A pedestrian helps another cross a puddle and onto the footpath at Farmgate while several others wait to follow suit after it rained yesterday afternoon submerging most streets of the capital and causing waterlogging at places. Photos: Anisur Rahman, Firoz Ahmed
At Moghbazar a rickshaw-van puller tries to get the vehicle back on its wheel after it tripped over a hole hidden under water. Photos: Anisur Rahman, Firoz Ahmed
