Today's Gallery (2016.01.02)

Tourists from different parts of the country fly colourful kites and release balloons in celebration of the New Year on the Cox's Bazar sea beach yesterday. Photo: Banglar Chokh
Though reminiscent of the rainy season, the water collecting here on Siddheswari Circular Road near the Malibagh intersection in the capital originated from sewers and construction works of the Malibagh-Moghbazar flyover project, causing sufferings to those who have to use the road. The photo was taken yesterday. Photo: Palash Khan
Two of the 30 bull carts which took part in a traditional race organised annually on empty fields following the harvest of Aman paddy in Usmanpur village in Jessore's Kashimpur union. The photo was taken yesterday. Photo: Rashed Shumon
Heavy fog causes a 20km tailback on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway stretching from Boldakhal to Tirchar in Daudkandi of Comilla yesterday creating misery for commuters. Highway police dissolved the tailback, which began around 3:00am, after about five hours as Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader was travelling to Noakhali on the highway. Photo: Star
A young Syrian refugee cleans the mud as snow covers the ground outside tents supplied by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for Syrian refugee families at the Tal al-Abyad camp, near the Lebanese city of Baalbek in the eastern Bekaa Valley, yesterday. Photo: AFP