Fishermen on a boat on the Meghna river in Barishal’s Bhola upazila doing some repair work on their fishing nets. Around this time of year, they usually venture out to catch hilsa, but now are sitting idle due to reduced navigability in estuaries. They are catching fewer hilsa. The photo was taken recently.
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Collected
Several iron rod-laden rickshaw-vans go against the traffic on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway. The rickshaw-van pullers ignore the risk of accidents even though vehicles on the highway are at speed. The photo was captured from Matuail area recently.
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Prabir Das
Even though DSCC has put up a warning sign and fences around Hajaribagh’s Kalunagar canal to prevent waste-dumping, the area’s residents keep piling up junk in the water body. This line of behaviour raises the question, why do we keep treating our waterbodies the way we do?
Photo: Palash Khan
Even though DSCC has put up a warning sign and fences around Hajaribagh’s Kalunagar canal to prevent waste-dumping, the area’s residents keep piling up junk in the water body. This line of behaviour raises the question, why do we keep treating our waterbodies the way we do?
Photo: Palash Khan
