Vehicles plying the Dhaka-Aricha highway at Hemayetpur, Savar, amid heavy fog around 8:00am yesterday. With the mercury dropping quite low around the turn of the year, heavy fog till midday has become a constant in the country.
Photo: Palash Khan
Stones of various shapes and sizes layer the landscape which rises to form hills on the horizon in Jaflong. The hill station in Sylhet, declared an ecologically critical area in 2015, is slowly returning to its former splendour as illegal stone extraction has stopped since 2020, when the government strictly enforced the ban. The photo was taken recently. Photo: Anisur Rahman
School students flipping through their new books on the first day of the year at the textbook festival organised by the Directorate of Primary Education at the playground on Dhaka University campus. Photo: Amran Hossain