Through a 200-metre breach in an embankment along the Kapotaksha, water gushes into Charamukha village in Khulna’s Koyra upazila. Four other villages nearby have been inundated since the breach developed in the levee on Sunday. Photo: Collected
Vehicles line up to get fuel near the capital’s Matsya Bhaban. The government is mulling over keeping fuel stations closed a day every week to cut consumption amid price hike of petroleum products in the international market. The photo was taken around 2:00pm yesterday.
Photo: Amran Hossain
The seventh and last span of the Rupsha railway bridge has been installed recently. With all spans in place over the Rupsha river, the Khulna-Mongla Rail Link project inches towards completion. This 5.13km-long railway bridge will be the country’s longest one. The photo was taken near Lobon Chora Road in Khulna’s Rupsha upazila recently.
PHOTO: HABIBUR RAHMAN
Vehicles parked in the space where the historic Neelam Ghar once stood. The century-old establishment on Old Dhaka’s Court Street was recognised by conservationists as a rare feat of masonry. However, after the heritage site was leased out to the Dhaka Bar Association by the Deputy Commissioner’s Office, the two-storey building was demolished to make room for a 20-storey one. The photo was taken yesterday. PHOTOS: ANISUR RAHMAN
What the Neelam Ghar, literally meaning auction house, used to look like. PHOTOS: ANISUR RAHMAN
