Day labourers sleep on a footpath on Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue in Dhaka. They will have to wake up around mid-night when goods-laden trucks arrive and help carry the goods from the trucks to shops in Karwan Bazar. Photo:
Amran Hossain
Eminent actor Dilara Zaman joins a human chain in front of Jatiya Press Club, demanding increased and effective taxation on tobacco products. Anti-Tobacco Women’s Alliance and Ubinig organised the event. Photo: FIROZ AHMED
A man on the phone jaywalks across the road in front of a bus in Dhaka’s Bangla Motor. Other pedestrians too violate road rules in a similar manner, putting themselves and others at risk. Photo:
Palash Khan