A flock of seagulls take off over the Karnaphuli river in Chittagong last week. The birds are adaptable feeders. They eat fish and marine and freshwater invertebrates both dead and alive.
Photo: Anurup Kanti Das
An armed Chinese policeman stands guard in the popular shopping and nightlife area of Sanlitun in Beijing, yesterday. Foreign embassies in China issued a warning on December 24 about possible threats against "Westerners" in a popular Beijing neighbourhood ahead of the Christmas holiday. The notice, from the US and British governments, covered the popular shopping and nightlife area of Sanlitun. Photo: AFP
A volunteer dressed in a Father Christmas (Santa Claus) outfit distributes gifts to children of asylum-seekers, as they arrive at the Schoenefeld train station near Berlin yesterday, 2015, before being dispatched to various refugee centres in or near the German capital. Pilgrims celebrated Christmas in Bethlehem, the town where tradition says Jesus was born, yesterday but festivities were subdued against a backdrop of violence in the Holy Land and a growing jihadist threat across the Middle East. Photo: AFP
A youth breaks a boulder to make mealing stones, at Bisnakandi, a tourist attraction in Sylhet's Gowainghat upazila. The spot has started being frequented by people from all parts of the country to enjoy the waterfalls cascading down the verdant hills at Bangladesh-India border. On one hand, unregulated visits are gradually making the place dirtier, and stone business is thriving there on the other. Though mealing stones are an everyday necessity in many households, unregulated extraction of stones from the spot may cause serious ecological ramifications. The photo was taken recently.Photo: Anisur Rahman
A youth breaks a boulder to make mealing stones, at Bisnakandi, a tourist attraction in Sylhet's Gowainghat upazila. The spot has started being frequented by people from all parts of the country to enjoy the waterfalls cascading down the verdant hills at Bangladesh-India border. On one hand, unregulated visits are gradually making the place dirtier, and stone business is thriving there on the other. Though mealing stones are an everyday necessity in many households, unregulated extraction of stones from the spot may cause serious ecological ramifications. The photo was taken recently.Photo: Anisur Rahman
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir takes part in election campaigning for BNP mayoral candidate in Saidpur of Nilphamari, Md Amzad Hossain Sarker, in the upcoming municipality polls. Amzad is also the incumbent. The photo was taken on Shaheed Dr Jikrul Road yesterday. Photo: Banglar Chokh
Bangladesh Muktijoddha Sangsad, Central Command Council forms a human chain in front of Jatiya Press Club in the capital yesterday protesting BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's remarks questioning the number of martyrs in the country's Liberation War and over Bangabandhu "wanting" to be Pakistan's prime minister. Photo: Star
Prokrichi-BCS Samannaya Committee, an association of government officials including engineers, agriculturists and physicians, stages a sit-in in the capital's Farmgate area yesterday, demanding restoration of time scale and selection grade in the eighth payscale to remove, what they say in a statement, “discrimination” in salaries and status among officials and employees. Photo: Star
