Campaigners take part in a performance to demonstrate how passengers are forced to kill valuable time on the road due to traffic jams. Photo: Rashed Shumon
A car accident scene is enacted. The event is a symbolic representation of the present traffic situation in Dhaka city, which is aggravated by a large number of private cars. It was organised at Abahani playground by Car-free Cities Alliance Bangladesh, a campaign launched by the Institute of Wellbeing yesterday. In Dhaka city, people lose 32 lakh work hours to traffic jams every day, and its economic cost is Tk 30,000 crore, says a press release. Photo: Rashed Shumon
School-children and their guardians take a shortcut through rail lines at the Sholoshahar rail station in Chittagong. With residential areas on both sides of the rail lines, people often cross the lines with little care for safety to save a little walking distance where a proper crossing is. Photo: Rajib Raihan
President Abdul Hamid cutting a cake at a programme marking the 32nd founding anniversary of Special Security Force in the city's Bangabandhu International Conference Centre yesterday. Photo: PID
