Encroachment chokes off the DND canal in the capital's Jatrabari area. Businesses have occupied a major part of it to set up shops, kitchen markets and other illegal erections obstructing the flow in the canal. Perennial water-logging during the rainy season makes life in the area miserable. The photo was taken yesterday. Photo: Anisur Rahman
Erosion of the Padma devours homes in Dohar of Dhaka, some 40 kilometres from the capital. Several villages in the upazila have already been swallowed by the monsoon-swollen river. The photos were taken yesterday. Photo: Collected
Photo: Collected
A woman salts down hilsa, an indigenous way of preserving the national fish and producing a unique flavour of it, in Firingibazar of Chittagong city on Thursday. Though this processing has long been known to this land, this year large catches of the fish in seas has made it a necessity. According to the fishing community and traders, every 40kg of hilsa is being bought for Tk 5,000 to Tk 7,000 and after salting, the same quantity sales for Tk 8,000 to Tk 10,000. Photo: Anurup Kanti Das
A risky ride! Amid traffic, a rickshaw with passengers on the capital's Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue near the Farmgate area plies the busy street. Even though these non-motorised vehicles are prohibited on many roads, they continue to operate, especially during the weekends with hardly any obstruction from the law enforcers. Fatal and avoidable accidents can often take place on the roads because of these vehicles. The photo was taken yesterday afternoon. Photo: Anisur Rahman
Photo: Anurup Kanti Das
The High Level WHO Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth presented its final report to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, not in picture, at the UN Headquarters on September 20. Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus, one of the commissioners, was present at the ceremony with other commissioners. Also present were Secretary General of Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Angel Gurria, President of France Francois Hollande, Director General of World Health Organization (WHO) Margaret Chan, President of South Africa Jacob Zuma, and Director General of International Labour Organization (ILO) Guy Ryder. Photo: Yunus Centre
Not only parks are being stolen from the city dwellers with constant dumping of waste and unabated encroachment, but also they are becoming storage spots. This remnant of a park in the capital's English Road has been turned to a dumping ground for metal pipes and other objects from the nearby metal shops. Photo: Rashed Shumon
A tea-stall, has also mushroomed due to lack of intervention from authorities concerned. Photo: Rashed Shumon
Salma Begum, middle, widow of Babul Howlader, cries as she mourns the death of her husband at her village home in Agailjhara upazila of Barisal yesterday. Babul and his brother are among the six Bangladeshi migrant workers who died in a road crash in Qatif of Saudi Arabia on Thursday. Photo: Star
