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Border Guard Bangladesh personnel patrol the streets ahead of Gazipur city polls.

Election fever grips Gazipur

Dhaka Metropolitan Detective Branch police present five detainees from a motorcycle theft and trafficking ring, their weapons and stolen motorcycles to the media on Sunday.

June 24, 2018

A spell of rain left a key road in Banani waterlogged on Saturday morning. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Waterlogged Dhaka

Two workers at the Meradia Nursery transport potted plants in Dhaka on Thursday. People use plants to freshen up their homes, balconies and roofs as the monsoon season sets in. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

June 23, 2018

Fruits are on display on the first day of a three-day fruit fair organised by the Ministry of Agriculture on the Gias Uddin Milky Auditorium premises at Khamarbari in Dhaka on Friday.

Fruit fair

A rickshawpuller used an umbrella to get some protection from the scorching sun. This photo was taken in the Central Shaheed Minar area on Friday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

June 22, 2018

Yoga enthusiasts participate in an event to celebrate International Yoga Day. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

International Yoga Day

Police aided by their sniffer dogs conduct an anti-drug drive on Laalbagh in Dhaka on Thursday.

June 21, 2018

An airconditioned microbus drove Bangladesh women cricket team captain Rumana Ahmed back to the team hotel on Wednesday. Photo: Suman Babu

Finally, a microbus for Bangladesh women cricketers

Children scale electricity poles with high-voltage power lines a few feet up to jump into a water body on the east of Dhaka Airport Rail Station. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

June 20, 2018

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader speaks at a press conference after a joint meeting with leaders of the party’s affiliate organisions at Dhaka’s Dhanmondi on Tuesday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

June 19, 2018

People are slowly returning to Dhaka after spending the Eid holidays with their families. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

A slow Dhaka after Eid

Sonali Bank offices were still mostly empty on Monday, the first workday after the Eid. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

June 18, 2018

Visitors stand in long queues to get inside the National Museum, which was drawing large crowds on Sunday, the day after Eid. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

June 17, 2018

Two boys greet each other with the traditional Eid hug at the National Eidgah after the prayer service on Saturday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

National Eidgah

Cricketer Mashrafe Bin Mortaza attends an Eid prayer service at the central Eidgah Maidan in Narail on Saturday morning.

June 16, 2018

Muslims greet each other at Bensonhurst Park to celebrateEid Al-Fitr in the Brooklyn, New York, U.S., June 15, 2018. REUTERS/Gabriela Bhaskar

Celebrating Eid

People are returning home by trains from Dhaka to celebrate the Eid with their families. The photo shows Airport Station on Friday.

Eid rush on trains

Thousands of people attend the Jummatul Bidah, the last Friday prayers of Ramadan, at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque in Dhaka. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Jummatul Bidah

Many travelled home from Dhaka by launches on Friday to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr with their families. This photo was taken from the China-Bangladesh Frienship Bridge on the Burhiganga River at Postogola. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

June 15, 2018

The football World Cup has added to the joys of Eid-ul-Fitr this year. A fan of Argentina star Lionel Messi shows a replica of his No 10 jersey from the top of a train at Airport Station in Dhaka on Thursday. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

June 14, 2018

Huge crowds of Eid shoppers created traffic congestion on Mirpur Road in Dhaka on Wednesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

June 13, 2018

The motorcade of US President Donald Trump travels towards Sentosa for his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in Singapore June 12, 2018. Reuters

Trump-Kim summit

Rising water levels of Sangu and Matamuhuri due to incessant rainfall over the last couple of days submerged many low-lying areas of Bandarban, snapping road communications in most parts of the region.

June 12, 2018

Jarul or giant crepe myrtle in bloom at Hatirjheel. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Colour burst before monsoon at Hatirjheel

Bangladesh Women cricket team members pose for photo with the trophy at the BCB's reception at Dhaka's Sonargaon hotel on Monday.

June 11, 2018

US President Donald Trump steps off his plane as he arrives at Paya Lebar Air Base in Singapore, ahead of a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, June 10, 2018.

Trump and N Korea's Kim in Singapore

People have begun leaving Dhaka to spend Eid holidays with friends and families. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Eid journey begins

Children play in the Turag River at Gabtoli Borobazar to escape the heat. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

As the heat peaks

The flags of various countries competing in the FIFA World Cup fly atop the roofs of homes in Dhaka’s Aminbazar. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

World Cup fever in Aminbazar

Girls are buying dresses to match with cosmetics and jewelleries in Chattogram’s shopping centres for the Eid. This photo was taken from Afmi Plaza on Sunday. Photo: Suman Babu

June 10, 2018

FBCCI President Md Shafiul Islam Mohiuddin holds a meeting on the proposed budget for the 2018-19 fiscal on Saturday at the Federation Bhaban in Dhaka’s Motijheel. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

June 09, 2018

Eid shoppers flock to Gausia, Chandni Chowk, and New Market areas and Bashundhara City shopping complex on the weekend. The photo shows Bashundhara City on Friday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

June 08, 2018

President Md Abdul Hamid signs the budget bill for Fiscal Year 2018-19 after it was approved by the cabinet. Photo: PID

Budget 2018-19

The intricate patterns on the sides of the spice mortar are hammered out by hand. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

June 07, 2018

Customers flock to Dhaka's Kamalapur Railway Station on Wednesday, the last day for sale of advance tickets for Eid-ul-Fitr holiday journeys.

June 06, 2018

Workers at a factory in Dhaka's Kutubkhali making skull caps, an essential among male attire for the Eid. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

June 05, 2018

Begum Rokeya Sarani in Dhaka’s Mirpur plunges into chaos as seen on Monday, as the construction of the metro rail project disrupts traffic on the key road.

June 04, 2018

A man paints a bus at Dhaka’s Gabtoli to give it a new look ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr when millions of people travel to their country homes.

Bus makeover before Eid

On the third day of advance sale of train tickets for Eid travel, people crowd the Kamalapur Railway Station on Sunday.

June 03, 2018

Commuters wait for transports at Farmgate in Dhaka on Saturday afternoon as the capital suffers traffic congestion on the weekly holiday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

June 02, 2018

A mobile court of RAB conducted a drive at a butcher's in Shantinagar kitchen market in Dhaka on Friday.

June 01, 2018

People line up at the Kamalapur Railway Station in the capital on Friday to buy tickets for Eid travel. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Rush for Eid train tickets

Boat service is launched to ferry commuters on Rokeya Sarani at Kaziparha.

Mirpur waterlogging

A passenger speaks on the mobile phone with his hand out of the window of a bus as he flirts with disaster. Bus mishaps often lead to amputations and deaths in Dhaka. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

May 31, 2018

A cockroach floats in sweet syrup at Rosh factory.

The bitter truth about 'Rosh'

A man displays a bus ticket. Advance bus-ticket sale starts at the Gabtoli bus terminal in Dhaka on Wednesday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Advance bus tickets on sale

Thai Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn plants fast-growing and climate-tolerant Binna grass at the Vetivar Centre in Chittagong under the Bangladesh-Thailand Vetivar Grass Development Project designed to prevent land erosion. Photo: Suman Babu

May 30, 2018

Workers making replica jerseys of different national teams. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Jersey frenzy catches Bangladesh

Children frolic in the waters of the Kuril Flyover Lake. The picture was taken on Tuesday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

May 29, 2018

Dhaka Metropolitan Police detectives arrested in Dakkhinkhan six people, including two Rohingyas, who were allegedly carrying yaba pills wrapped in polythene papers inside their stomach on Sunday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

May 28, 2018

Football jerseys of various teams are displayed at a roadside stall in Dhaka. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

World Cup fever overtakes Dhaka

Police conduct an anti-drug operation in the Ganakatuli area of Dhaka’s Hazaribag on Sunday morning.

May 27, 2018

While it is difficult to cross bamboo bridges on foot, a woman is crossing such a bridge on the canal along Zia Sarani at Shanir Akhra in Dhaka with her son on a wheelchair. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Recovering a canal

The Rapid Action Battalion or RAB detained a number of suspects during a raid on the Stranded Pakistanis Relief Camp, popularly known as the Geneva Camp, in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur on Saturday as a part of a nationwide war on drugs.

May 26, 2018

Jamdani sari sellers try to attract customers in Demra. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Jamdani market gets momentum

New cothes are making their way into the shopping hotspots in Dhaka and many have begun shopping for the Eid. A sizable crowd was spotted at the Bashundhara City shopping Mall on Friday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

May 25, 2018

UNICEF goodwill ambassador Priyanka Chopra addressing a press conference in Dhaka on Thursday after her four-day visit to Cox's Bazar to meet displaced Rohingyas at refugee camps. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Priyanka Chopra's Dhaka presser

Brazil’s flag flies atop a vessel on the Shimulia-Kawrakandi route in Bangladesh in signs of enthusiasm over the FIFA World Cup to be held in Russia. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

May 24, 2018

Muslims women line up for Iftar doles at a Buddhist Vihara in Dhaka's Basabo.

Iftar at Buddhist Vihara

The malls in Dhaka get decorated with colourful lights ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr shopping spree. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

May 23, 2018

Craftsmen printing blocks on dresses in New Market. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Block, boutique and embroidery

Dhaka suffers heavy traffic congestion when people start for home after work and the situation worsens during Ramadan. The photo was taken from Mohakhali Flyover on Tuesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

May 22, 2018

Patients are going back without medicare at Dhaka National Medical College Hospital due to a strike by the staff over several demands on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Strike at Dhaka hospital

A mobile court of Dhaka North City Corporation at work in the capital’s Kawran Bazar on Monday to stop abnormal hike in prices and sale of contaminated foods.

May 21, 2018

A mobile court of the district administration clears illegal establishments on the foothills of Akbar Shah area in Chattogram. Photo: Suman Babu

May 20, 2018

Mahamaya Lake in Chittagong’s Mirsharai Upazila has become one of the attractive tourist spots surrounded by mountains. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Beauty of Mahamaya Lake

A German couple is on a world tour by bicycle. Tandem-Tagebuch and Ute und Konrad have covered 22 countries. They are now in Dhaka. The photo was taken on Saturday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

May 19, 2018

US actor George Clooney and his wife, lawyer Amal Clooney arrive with guests to the wedding of Britain's Prince Harry to Meghan Markle in Windsor, Britain, May 19, 2018. Reuters

Prince Harry and Meghan's wedding

There is no end to the variety of food that one can savour in Chawkbazar.

Iftar brings back Chawkbazar buzz

A garden is being built at Hatirjheel in Moghbazar area. The authorities expect the garden will help ward off water pollution. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

May 18, 2018

Finance Minister AMA Muhith among guests at a discussion organised by the ministry, Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission, and the World Bank on long-term financing at a Dhaka hotel on Thursday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

May 17, 2018

Shopping is on in full swing as hawkers grab pavements and parts of the street in Gulistan-Fulbaria area. The photo was taken on Wednesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Hawkers claw their way back in Gulistan

Heavy traffic jam on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway and a shortage of public transports force many commuters to use pick-up vans to reach their destinations. The photo was taken from Mayor Hanif Flyover on Wednesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

May 16, 2018

Israeli forces responded to protesters with tear gas and live fire from snipers

Bloodshed in Gaza

A photo taken from Ward No. 31 Councillor’s Office centre shows ballot papers with seals of the ruling Awami League’s boat logo lying open on a desk as election officials work during Khulna City Corporation polls on Tuesday. The Election Commission later postponed voting at the centre for irregularities.

Voting in Khulna

State Minister for Labour and Employment Md Mujibul Haque (Chunnu) speaks at a dialogue on Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs organised by the Centre for Policy Dialogue at a Dhaka hotel on Tuesday.

May 15, 2018

Officials gesture after signing an agreement between Dhaka Stock Exchange and a consortium of China's Shenzhen and Shanghai bourses on strategic partnership at a hotel in the capital on Monday.

DSE brings China bourses on board

Ballot boxes are brought to the polling centres for Tuesday’s election. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

On the eve of the Khulna polls

Quota reform protesters gather at Dhaka’s Shahbag to demand the prime minister’s suggested abolition of the quota system for civil service jobs be formalised in a gazette. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

May 14, 2018

Israeli security forces personnel scuffle with a Palestinian woman ahead of the annual Jerusalem Day parade outside Jerusalem's Old City's Damascus Gate, May 13, 2018. REUTERS

Jerusalem Day parade

Drenched in rain, two women with children in their arms are heading to their destinations. The photo was taken at the Bakshi Bazar area. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Rain brings miseries to Dhaka residents

The fourth span of the Padma Bridge has been installed between pillars 40 and 41 on the Jazira end of the bridge, making 600 metres of the country’s largest physical infrastructure project visible.

May 13, 2018

Friends and relatives of Ananta Bijoy Das organise a candlelight vigil and rally the National Museum in Dhaka’s Shahbagh on Saturday remembering the writer-blogger who was slain in an attack by militants in Sylhet on this day three years ago. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

May 12, 2018

Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders and activists join Central Council at the Dhaka’s Suhrawardy Udyan. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

BCL's Central Council

Political, social, educational and cultural organisations paying their final tributes to National Professor and Language Movement hero Mustafa Nur-Ul Islam at the Central Shaheed Minar. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Last respects for National Professor Mustafa Nur-Ul Islam

The much-talked-about graffiti series “Subodh

May 11, 2018

People jostle with each other rushing to get on the bus at Farmgateon Thursday afternoon. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Commuters in transport trouble

Dark clouds literally turned the day into night around 11 in the morning on Thursday. The photo shows Topkhana Road. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

May 10, 2018

Clusters of ripe litchis are seen on the trees. The photo was taken from Sonargaon’s Panamanagar. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Litchi arrives from Sonargaon

Both sides of footpath from Dhaka’s Gulistan to Nababpur road are usually occupied by hawkers. But now they have started encroaching on the road median as well. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

May 09, 2018

A plant for water purification is built in an unhygienic environment. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Pure water in name only

Hasna Banu, a resident of Dumuria village, in Shyamnagar Upazila in Satkhira, runs a shop with financial support from a local organisation. Hasna borrowed Tk 40,000 from the NGO to rebuild her life after Cyclone Aila. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

May 08, 2018

The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh starts open sales of soybean oil, sugar and other essentials ahead of Ramadan, as seen on a key road in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

May 07, 2018

Viqarunnisa Noon School and College students are overjoyed by their SSC results. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

SSC examination results

Dhaka suffered heavy gridlock on the first working day of the week. The photo shows traffic on the Mayor Hanif Flyoveraround 10am on Sunday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

May 06, 2018

Students and other residents have had to deal with three months of sewage system construction in Dhaka’s Arambag. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Drain work narrows Dhaka road

Most pedestrians on Dhaka’s busiest roads do not follow traffic laws, often crossing the street wherever they please instead of using the designated foot over bridges or zebra crossings. Scout personnel took to the streets of the capital on Saturday to raise awareness of the proper use of foot over bridges and underpasses. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Scouts crack down on jaywalking

A demonstration in front of the Chattogram Press Club on Saturday demands justice for the murder of schoolgirl Tasfia Amin. Photo: Suman Babu

May 05, 2018

Guests at the inaugural ceremony of Kuntal Barai's first solo painting exhibition.

Kuntal Barai's painting exhibition

Out-of-service planes of United Airways, the private airline which is not operating any flights for quite a few days, lie in front of the Cargo Village of Shahjalal International Airport on Thursday. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

May 04, 2018

Pedestrians in Dhaka’s Farmgate area cross a key road avoiding a footbridge just over their heads, putting their lives at risk. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Street wrongdoing

Following the Anti-Corruption Commission’s interrogation, Deputy Inspector General Mizanur Rahman speaks to the media. He came under scrutiny after he was accused of abducting a woman and later marrying her by force.

May 03, 2018

A man collects honey from Kolagasiya in the Sundarbans’ Satkhira range. Honey collection in the Sundarbans is one of the risky businesses of the world as danger always lurks there. Every year the honey collectors get attacked by tigers. Photo taken on Apr 27. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

May 02, 2018

Breads in different shapes and sizes are priced from Tk 130 to Tk 400 per kg in Chalk Bazar.

Shab-e-Barat breads

A wild elephant died in hilly area of Uttar Gandhigaon of Sherpur's Jhenaigati Upazila on Tuesday. Veterinary doctors said it died after swallowing toxic plants.

May 01, 2018

​City's Minto Road area after the storm​ ​on Monday.

Nor'wester hits the capital ​

Permanent Representative of Kuwait to the United Nations Mansour Ayyad Al Otaibi, a member of a 15-member UN Security Council delegation, speaks on the Rohingya crisis at the Dhaka airport before leaving for Myanmar on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

April 30, 2018

A garment factory warehouse on the sixth floor of the 12-storey ML Tower caught on fire on Wapda Road in Dhaka’s Rampura on Sunday. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Fire at Rampura garment factory

Devotees pray in front of a statue of Buddha on Buddha Purnima at the Dharmarajika Buddhist Monastery Complex in Dhaka’s Shabujbag on Sunday. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Buddha Purnima

The Murapara Zamidar Bari has a large field out front, with a pond. The building also has a pond behind it. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

The historic Murapara Zamidar Bari

April 29, 2018

Farmers at Narayanganj’s Sonargaon are busy harvesting okra, which grows in summer. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

April 28, 2018

A number of trees between the High Court and Bangabazar are inscribed with Arabic calligraphy. The photo was taken on Friday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Arabic calligraphy on DU trees

Dhaka and its surrounding areas go under water just in a splash of rain as seen in Fatullah’s Adarsh Nagar of Narayanganj. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

April 27, 2018

bKash CEO Kamal Quadir (centre) looks on as bdnews24.com Editor-in-Chief Toufique Imrose Khalidi (right) speaks with Ant Financial Executive Chairman and CEO Eric Jing.

bKash with Alipay

Bangladesh's mobile financial service provider bKash and Ant Financial Service, which operates operates global e-commerce firm Alibaba Group-linked payment platform Alipay, sign a strategic partnership agreement on Thursday at a Dhaka hotel. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

April 26, 2018

A view of the roundtable titled 'Let's Save Every Newborn: Election Pledge Needed' organised by bdnews24.com in partnership with Unicef in Dhaka on Wednesday.

Roundtable on ways to save every newborn

Poet Belal Chowdhry has been showered with love from the people of all walks of life. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Tribute to poet Belal Chowdhury

Construction workers are busy building pillars to install a span for Metrorail at the Agargaon area after the first span was installed in Uttara’s Diabari. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

April 25, 2018

Relatives pay tributes to workers killed in the Rana Plaza disaster by placing wreaths at the graveyard at Jurain in Dhaka on Tuesday to mark the fifth anniversary of the country’s biggest industrial disaster. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

April 24, 2018

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, accompanied by her sister Sheikh Rehana, arrives at Shahjalal International Airport early on Monday ending an eight-day trip to Saudi Arabia and the UK. Photo: BSS

April 23, 2018

Britain's Prince Charles speaks during a special concert

92nd birthday of Queen Elizabeth

People returning home after a long day are suddenly caught in a shower on the Buriganga River. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Crossing the Buriganga in the rain

The Buriganga River near Old Dhaka’s Badamtali is dark and filled with waste dumped by fruit warehouses on Saturday. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

April 22, 2018

‘Sons of Freedom Fighters’ holds a rally in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka on Saturday to demand that quotas for government jobs are maintained. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

April 21, 2018

Fishermen collect fish eggs from South Asia's most abundant natural hatchery, the Halda river, in Chattogram as the female fishes start to release the roes at the spawning season. Photo: Suman Babu

Collecting fish egg in Halda

Two banyan trees, hundreds of years old, stand tall in a village of Jadavpur Union in Dhamrai on the outskirts of Dhaka. The trees’ aerial roots spreading over two acres of land appear to create an eerie environment. Fairy tales about the two trees abound in the neighbourhood. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

In the shadow of the banyan