A farmer quickly harvests his ripe Boro to avoid any risk as accumulated rainwater may ruin the standing crops in the face of prolonged submersion. This year, Boro was cultivated on 63,790 hectares in Khulna, with 77 percent of the crop already harvested as of Wednesday. The photo was taken in Khulna’s Dumuria upazila yesterday.
PHOTO: HABIBUR RAHMAN
Relatives of patients at the DMCH sleep inside mosquito nets they have put up in the garden of the hospital. Many patients from outside the capital arrive with multiple attendants and there are restrictions on the number of people staying with patients inside the hospital. The photo was taken early Tuesday. Photo: Anisur Rahman
A ‘FISH FIGHT’
One Little Tern flies off with a fish freshly caught from the Padma, while another tries to chase it on a riverbank in Rajshahi. These migratory water birds breed on the coasts and inland waters of temperate and tropical Europe and Asia, and spend their winters in subtropical and tropical oceans as far south as South Africa and Australia. Like most white terns, they feed by plunge-diving for small fish. Sometimes, the males offer their catches to their female counterparts as part of courtship rituals. However, that does not seem to be the case between these two! Little Terns depend largely on water systems for their survival. Despite being categorised as “Least Concern” in IUCN’s red list, a decline in their population in our country is inevitable if the current state of our dying rivers does not improve drastically. PHOTO: MOSABBER HOSSAIN RIBON
Illegal sand lifting from the Dhaleswari river at Charabari in Tangail Sadar upazila threatens a nearby bridge. People of five unions use this bridge to get to the district town. The photo was taken recently.
Photo: Star
