A bookbinder working on a ledger in Chattogram city’s Anderkilla area. In the lead-up to Pahela Baishakh, the sale of ledgers, known as ‘Haal Khata’, peaks as traders take up fresh books to maintain their accounts.
Photo: Rajib Raihan
An excavator cutting hills to make way for a building for the Education Engineering Department in the port city’s Khulshi area. This goes on even though the environment department had stopped all illegal hill-cutting activities there around two years ago. The photo was taken yesterday.
Photo: Rajib Raihan