Parents pour water on a child suffering from dengue fever at Mugda Medical College and Hospital in Dhaka on August 20, 2019. Photo: Star/ Amran Hossain
A head-on collision between a bus and a motorcycle left one dead on the spot at Dhanialapara area of Chattogram city on August 20, 2019. Photo: Star/ Rajib Raihan
Dhaka-bound people wait at Dinajpur Railway Station as schedules of all trains of western railway zone collapsed on August 20, 2019. Photo: Star/ Kongkon Karmaker
A LINGERING EID VACATION ... Although Dhaka streets seem to be returning to their full chaotic glory following a week-long Eid holiday, this long queue of locked-up rickshaws on the roadside in Tejgaon hints that not all rickshaw-pullers have come back to the megacity. The photo was taken yesterday morning. Photo: Rashed Shumon
Salma, a househelp, fanning her seven-month-child with a plastic plate to give the baby some comfort inside their burnt shanty at the capital’s Mirpur Chalantika slum yesterday. Salma, her garment worker husband and their two children were at their village home when a fire ravaged the slum on Friday night. The family returned yesterday and found that they lost almost everything to the flames. Photo: Prabir Das
