Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina addresses the party’s 21st council at the historic Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka on Friday, December 20, 2019. Photo: PID
An injured rickshaw-van puller struggles to get back on his feet with winter clothes strewn around his mangled vehicle on the Buriganga Bridge in the capital’s Babu Bazaar yesterday. Moments ago, a bus hit the three-wheeler, which was carrying the clothes, and sped away. Slow moving vehicles, including rickshaws and vans, are not allowed on the road. Photo: Anisur Rahman
On the banks of Sylhet’s Piyain river, Mohammad Abu Bakr (60) lays out his clay pots under the winter sun, before they make their way to the nearby Gowainghat bazar. Every November, Abu Bakr brings his cooking pots, clay lids, pitha moulds all the way from Dhaka. He expects this year’s Tk 3.5 lakh haul to sell for double the price. If all goes well, these will be sold this week, and the seasonal trader will go home in relief. It has been a good few years for business, as people are coming back to clay pots out of health concerns, said Bakr. Photo: Sheikh Nasir
Protesters hold placards at a demonstration against India’s new citizenship law in New Delhi yesterday. Six more people died in fresh clashes between police and demonstrators, taking the death toll to 15 in more than a week of unrest triggered by the citizenship law seen as anti-Muslim. Photo: AFP
