Gillnets set out on the shore of the Bay for fishing shrimp fry in Ashar Char area of Barguna. Fishermen sell the catch to wholesalers who supply it to shrimp enclosures in Khunla. Because of the ongoing ban (from November to June) on netting jatka (hilsa fry), many fishermen have shifted to shrimp. But the use of gillnet threatens the breeding of all fish species as it can trap very young ones. Star file photo
Photo: Star file photo
Flouting a High Court stay order, a building, once marked out as a heritage structure by Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha, is being knocked down in the city's Hrishikesh Das Road. The photo was taken yesterday. Photo: Collected
Released Nigerian school girls who were kidnapped by Boko Haram militants from their school in Dapchi, in the northeastern state of Yobe, wait to meet the Nigerian president at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, yesterday. A total of 104 of the 110 students seized from the school on February 19 were released on Wednesday. Photo: AFP
