Women carefully seperating jute fibre from retted stalks. Inset, freshly harvested jute stalks being carried for the process of water retting. In this step, the bundles are soaked in water to swell the inner cells and burst the outermost layer. This makes the process of seperating the fibre from the stalk easier. The photos were taken from different areas in Narail yesterday.
PHOTO: HABIBUR RAHMAN
Women carefully seperating jute fibre from retted stalks. Inset, freshly harvested jute stalks being carried for the process of water retting. In this step, the bundles are soaked in water to swell the inner cells and burst the outermost layer. This makes the process of seperating the fibre from the stalk easier. The photos were taken from different areas in Narail yesterday.
PHOTO: HABIBUR RAHMAN
MISCHIEF MANAGED … An Indian palm squirrel stretching his back after doing some hard work of hiding nuts in a small hollow of a tree in Khulna city’s Mujgunni area. This considerably cute rodent is widespread and widely liked, despite a knack for mischief. It is found mainly in India and its neighbouring countries, including Bangladesh.
Photo: Habibur Rahman
A parking lot has been built grabbing the land of the Turag in Kamarpara area of Tongi. Vehicles like buses and trucks are parked at the spot beside the Tongi-Ashulia road. Demarcation pillars of the river are hidden from view due to the occupation. The photo was taken yesterday. Photo: Anisur Rahman
Exhausted in the hot and humid weather yesterday, a rickshaw-puller tries to cool himself off by drinking and splashing some water on his face from a roadside tap near Ittefaq intersection in the capital’s Hatkhola area. Photo: Palash Khan
