Three girls on a bike in the capital's Paribagh yesterday. Females riding motorbikes is not a common sight in Dhaka city. Seemingly enjoying the ride, they forgot a few traffic rules: two persons per bike and helmets. Photo: Firoz Ahmed
Rohingya refugee Rukia Begum, 30, gave birth to a baby boy at 4:00am yesterday at the Doctors Without Border's clinic at Kutupalong in Ukhia of Cox's Bazar. At 10:30am, she left the clinic and was going all on her own to a makeshift camp. Photo: Porimol Palma
Teachers, students, officials and employees of Maulana Bhasani University of Science and Technology in Tangail form a human chain on the campus yesterday protesting brutalities on the Rohingyas in Myanmar, which has caused fleeing of hundreds of thousands of the victims to Bangladesh. The participants urged for support from across the globe for end of the persecution on the ethnic community in the neighbouring country and steps for return of the refugees from Bangladesh. Photo: Star