Over 2,000 people of villages near the Madai Beel in Bishwanath of Sylhet take part in a hundreds-year-old fishing festival. Armed with whatever fishing gear available, they wade into the drying water-bodies and spend a day of festive fishing on the last Saturday of February every year. Even some well-off Bangladeshi expatriates, living in the UK and the Middle East, fly in to take part in this. Photo: Sheikh Nasir
A woman brings home pitchers full of purchased drinking water in Natun Bazar area of Barisal city yesterday as a water crisis hit the city a few days ago. Photo: Arifur Rahman
Women crowd around a tap at a colony for the cleaning workers of Sylhet City Corporation in Kashtaghar area yesterday as it is the only source of drinking for the residents. Photo: Sheikh Nasir
A mahout with his elephant blocks a car on Asad Avenue in the capital yesterday to extort money from its passengers. Although this newspaper published almost innumerable such photos, no step has so far been taken to stop the nuisance. Photo: Muhammad Zahidul Islam
