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A tearful woman praying at the Akheri Munajat in Gazipur’s Tongi. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Biswa Ijtema concludes

National Housing Authority workers bulldozing shanties during an eviction drive at a slum in Dhaka's Bhashantek on Tuesday.

February 19, 2019

A BIWTA mobile court conducts an eviction drive to remove illegal structures on the banks of the Buriganga River in Keraniganj’s Chor Washpur area. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Illegal structures demolished in Bosila

Atiqul Islam, the Awami League’s candidate for Dhaka North city mayor office, campaigning at Mirpur-13 on Monday ahead of the Feb 28 by-polls.

February 18, 2019

Construction work on the metro rail project is underway in Uttara’s Diabari area. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

The Uttara section of the metro rail project

A thunderstorm drenched the Ekushey Book Fair on Sunday, damaging the various stalls. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Thunderstorm halts book fair

Nearly 200 homes were burned by the fire that sparked at the slum next to Bhera Market in Chattogram’s Chaktai. Photo: Suman Babu

Bhera Market slum burns down

Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor Md Akhtaruzzaman speaking at the Sumitomo Coroporation Scholarship Award Ceremony on Sunday.

February 17, 2019

Hundreds of thousands of Muslim devotees took part in the Akheri Munajat on the banks of the Turag River in Tongi on Saturday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

One phase of Ijtema holds Akheri Munajat

Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority or BIWTA demolishing illegal establishments on the bank of Buriganga River in Dhaka's Shahidnagar area on Saturday.

February 16, 2019

Not all things at the Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital in Dhaka were in order on Friday, a day after it caught fire, but relatives were taking back patients there to the facility for resumption of treatment. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Suhrawardy Hospital returning to normal

Hundreds of thousands offered their Jumma prayers on the banks of the Turag in Tongi on Friday on the first day of Bishwa Ijtema. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Bishwa Ijtema starts, at last

Himu Paribahan, an organisation of volunteers, organised a road running event at the Central Shaheed Minar area in Dhaka on Friday to mark World Cancer Day. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

February 15, 2019

Patients are being brought out from the Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital in Dhaka's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar after it caught fire on Thursday evening.

Fire at Suhrawardy Hospital

A foreigner sporting a flower headband and a red saree as she basks in the love on Valentine's Day in Dhaka on Thursday.

Valentine's fever grips Dhaka

Visitors at a stall at the Food and Hospitality Bangladesh Expo-2019 at Bashundhara International Convention City. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Food and Hospitality Bangladesh Expo-2019

A pair of spotted deer is roaming in the Katka Wildlife Sanctuary in the Sundarbans. Bangladesh observed Sundarbans Day with a slogan, “Love Sundarbans on Valentine’s Day” on Thursday. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

February 14, 2019

Welcoming spring amidst music and laughter at Bokultola of Dhaka University's Faculty of Fine Arts on Wednesday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Spring arrives…

Foreigners sporting floral wreaths to celebrate the arrival of Basanta or spring on Bangla calendar while visiting Amar Ekushey Book Fair in Dhaka on Wednesday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

February 13, 2019

Preparations for Biswa Ijtema under way on the banks of the Turag River in Tongi on the outskirts of the capital on Tuesday. The four-day congregation of Sunni Muslims, organised by the Tabligh Jamaat, is starting on Friday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

February 12, 2019

Rickshaw garages, shops, offices of different political groups have been built illegally on the verges of the DIT pond next to Satish Sarker Road in the capital's Gandaria. The years-old water body will cease to exist if proper steps are not taken to stop encroachment. This photo was taken on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

February 11, 2019

A woman using a kerosene stove for cooking on Prasanna Poddar Lane at Tantibazar in Old Dhaka on Sunday due to a crisis of gas. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Gas crisis at Old Dhaka

A statue of Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of education, is displayed at a pond at Dhaka University’s Jagannath Hall. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Saraswati Puja

Members of Bangladesh Nari Sangbadik Kendra, a centre for women journalists in the country, demonstrating outside the National Press Club in Dhaka on Sunday.

February 10, 2019

Mominur Rahman Royal has been campaigning against noise pollution with his wife and five-month old child ever since witnessing his newborn being terrified by the sounds of car horns. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

February 09, 2019

Choosing books at stalls during Shishu Prohor or Children’s Hour in book fair. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Shishu Prohor

Members of 'Muktijoddhar Sontan O Projonmo Somonyo Parishad, an organisation of freedom fighters' descendants, demonstrating at the Shahbagh intersection in Dhaka on Friday evening for a seven-point charter of demand, including restoration of 30 percent quota for them in government jobs.

February 08, 2019

Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal leaders and activists marching on the Dhaka University campus to submit a memorandum with different demands to the vice-chancellor on Thursday morning ahead of the elections to the central students' union of the university or DUCSU.

February 07, 2019

Bangabandhu's grandson Radwan Mujib Siddiq showing American actress Angelina Jolie around the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum in Dhaka on Wednesday.

Angelina Jolie at Bangabandhu Museum

Visitors check out stalls at the REHAB fair 2019 being held at Dhaka's Bangabandhu International Conference Centre. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

REHAB Fair 2019

This auto-rickshaw has been renovated to look like a ‘portable garden'. Passengers of this CNG-run vehicle can watch TV dramas and listen to songs. It also has a mirror, comb and a tissue box. Stationery supplies like staplers and pens are also available. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

February 06, 2019

A water bus emitting black smoke during a trip in the dark Buriganga water at Kamrangirchar in Dhaka on Tuesday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Pollution turns Buriganga black

A mobile court of the BIWTA oversees the demolition of illegal structures on the banks of Buriganga at Kamrangirchar's Nababchar area. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Eviction at Kamrangirchar

Post, Telecommunication and IT Minister Mustafa Jabbar speaking at a Safer Internet Day programme organised by UNICEF at the Software Technology Park in Dhaka's Karwan Bazar on Tuesday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

February 05, 2019

Top Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie arrived in Cox’s Bazar to visit the Rohingya refugee camps as a special envoy for the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR.

February 04, 2019

This sculpture of footballer Lionel Messi by artist Mrinal Haque has drawn criticism. Photo: Abdul Mannan Dipto

Mrinal Haque’s Celebrity Gallery

Construction workers are busy on the elevated expressway project in Dhaka’s Khilkhet on Saturday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Elevated expressway

Prime Minister's Adviser for Private Industry and Investment Salman F Rahman addressing a discussion organised by FBCCI on Bangladesh's achievements in the power sector and best use of electricity for robust economic growth at a Dhaka hotel on Sunday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

February 03, 2019

The SSC examinations are held at the Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib Government Secondary School examination centre in Dhaka’s Ashkona on Saturday.

SSC exams begin

Characters from television show 'Sisimpur' attract young visitors during Children’s Hour at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair on Saturday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

February 02, 2019

Book lovers checking the stalls at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair in Dhaka on the opening day on Friday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Ekushey book fair begins

Visitors flocked to Dhaka International Trade Fair on weekly holiday Friday.

February 01, 2019

Students carrying placards during a demonstration at Rajendrapur on the Dhaka-Mawa Highway on Thursday demanding maximum punishment of the driver of the truck that ran over and killed two siblings on their way home from school in Keraniganj on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Justice demanded for road crash deaths

The Ekushey Book Fair, a fair close to the hearts of Bangalees, is just a day away. All stalls are being decked up with books. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Eyes on Ekushey Book Fair

A flock of herons searches for food in Srinagar Upazila in Munshiganj. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

January 31, 2019

The authorities bulldozing illegal structures constructed on the two sides of the railway tracks during an eviction drive at Doyaganj in Dhaka on Wednesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

January 30, 2019

BIWTA workers bulldozing a multi-storey building in a drive to clear illegal structures on the bank of the Buriganga River at Kamrangirchar in Dhaka on Tuesday.

Evictions on bank of Buriganga

Footwear shops are set up on the pavements and road dividers at Gulistan in Dhaka. Many choose the shops for cheap products. This photo was taken on Tuesday.

January 29, 2019

Glossy ibis migratory birds are seen in Sunamganj’s Tanguar Haor, a vast wetland. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

January 28, 2019

A traffic police personnel help visually impaired women cross the street at Banani’s Kakoli intersection on Sunday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Traffic police at work

A wall put up near BRAC University in Dhaka invites people to donate old clothes for the needy during winter. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

January 27, 2019

The water is initially collected in small containers before being stored in larger ones. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Drinking water crisis

Members celebrate Bangladesh’s Chhatra League’s 71st anniversary by dressing up as Liberation War freedom fighters. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Chhatra League celebrates anniversary

The alumni of Dhaka University's English Department gathered at the Teacher-Student Centre on Friday for their annual bash.

DU English Dept alumni get-together

Light decorations are put up as preparation for the annual Amar Ekushey Book Fair, set to begin in a few days. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Before the book fair

Visitors flocked to Dhaka International Trade Fair 2019 on the weekly holiday Friday.

January 25, 2019

The three-day National Vegetables Fair and Vegetables Exhibition 2019 kicked off on the Department of Agricultural Extension premises in Dhaka on Thursday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

January 24, 2019

Ahmed Imtiaz Bulbul's only son Samir Ahmed embraces his father's coffin during a ceremony to pay tribute to the noted musician and freedom fighter at Dhaka's Central Shaheed Minar on Wednesday.

Goodbye Bulbul

The sixth span of the Padma Bridge is installed on piers 36 and 37 at the Zajira end on Wednesday. The span was brought to the site from a construction yard in Munshiganj’s Kumarbhog on a floating crane. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

January 23, 2019

The sixth span of the Padma Bridge will be installed on piers 36 and 37 at the Zajira end on Wednesday. The span was brought to the site from a construction yard in Munshiganj’s Kumarbhog on a floating crane on Tuesday.

January 22, 2019

An excavator is used to remove refuse from the Kutubkhali Canal on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Clean-up drive on Kutubkhali Canal

Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam greeting Sheikh Hasina with flowers before the first meeting of her new council of ministers at the Prime Minister’s Office in Dhaka on Monday. Photo: Saiful Islam Kallol

January 21, 2019

Leader of the Opposition in Parliament and Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad departs for Singapore, where he is to receive medical treatment. He left his home in Baridhara at 11:30 am on Sunday for the airport. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

January 20, 2019

The Awami League organises a rally at the Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka on Saturday to celebrate its landslide victory in the Dec 30 parliamentary election.

Awami League’s election victory celebration

A farmer carries a ripe pumpkin on his head in the Arial Beel area. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

The pumpkins of Arial Beel

People walk to their destinations as vehicles remain stuck in tailbacks caused by traffic restrictions during the Awami League's election victory celebration at the Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka.

January 19, 2019

The pieces of plastic are set out along the slopes of the embankments. Waves of colourful plastic catches the eye from afar. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Shards by the Buriganga

Visitors flocking to the Dhaka International Trade Fair 2019 on the weekly holiday on Friday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

January 18, 2019

A rope is seen being used to bar commuters from breaking traffic rules at Dhaka's Bijoy Sarani intersection on Thursday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

January 17, 2019

The Namaz-e-Janaza of bdnews24.com’s Senior Editor Amanullah Kabir is being held at the National Press Club. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Adieu to Amanullah Kabir

Priota Farelin Iftekhar, who was crowned the first-ever Miss Culture Worldwide in Zimbabwe in December last year, speaking at a news conference in Dhaka on Wednesday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

January 16, 2019

The Namaz-e-Janaza of Abu Bakar Chowdhury, acting editor of Daily Manabkantho, was held at the National Press Club in Dhaka on Tuesday.

January 15, 2019

Workers of the Roads and Highways Department razing down an illegal structure during an eviction drive on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway at Shanir Akhra on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Eviction on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway

Factory workers of Bando ECO Apparels block road and vandalise vehicles at Savar’s Aminbazar after rumour spread that a city-owned garbage truck ran over and killed one of their co-workers on Monday.

January 14, 2019

Pedestrians have to cover their faces when walking amid the dust-filled air Postogola. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Dust blanket on Postogola

'Charcoals' - renewable solid fuel made from rice husk - is being loaded on to a truck bound for Cumilla. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Rice husk to fuel

Pedestrians at Dhaka's Purana Paltan use a gap in the road divider to jaywalk while a foot over-bridge remains seemingly empty on Sunday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

January 13, 2019

Road Transport Minister Obaidul Quader inspects a BRTA mobile court on Manik Mia Avenue in Dhaka on Saturday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

January 12, 2019

People thronged the Dhaka International Trade Fair 2019 at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar on Friday, the first weekly holiday after the inauguration. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

DITF starts pulling crowd

Rahim Mia selectively picks beans that are ripe for sale as a number of his produce are yet to become edible. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Winter beans

Sammilito Sangskritik Jote, the central platform of cultural organisations, organised a programme to commemorate Awami League leader Syed Ashraful Islam at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka on Friday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

January 11, 2019

A farmer checks a box for honey at a bee farm. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Bee farming at mustard fields

Stalls and pavilions at the Dhaka International Trade Fair 2019 are being prepared on Thursday, a day after inauguration. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

January 10, 2019

Police using water-cannons to disperse agitating garment workers from the Dhaka-Aricha Highway at Savar’s Karnapara.

January 09, 2019

Workers preparing the eye-catching stalls for the Dhaka International Trade Fair. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Trade fair preparations

After beginning her record fourth term as prime minister, Sheikh Hasina pays tribute to her father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing a wreath in front of his portrait at Dhanmondi's Bangabandhu Memorial Museum on Tuesday. Photo: PID

January 08, 2019

Garment workers set fire to a bus on Dhaka’s Airport Road on Monday during a demonstration to demand an increase in the minimum wage and to press for a series of other demands. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Airport Road blocked again

President Md Abdul Hamid administers oath to deputy ministers of the new cabinet during an inauguration ceremony at the Bangabhaban on Monday. Photo: ABM Aktaruzzaman / PID

January 07, 2019

Local youths put together a ‘wall of humanity’ at the entrance of Sobhanbagh Government Officers Quarter. Anyone can leave their spare garments on the wall to be picked up by the needy. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

January 06, 2019

A field of gerbera flowers in a variety of colours. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Gerbera flowers

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir visits the woman who was gang-raped on the election day, at a hospital in Noakhali on Saturday.

January 05, 2019

Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha Chief Editor Abul Kalam Azad, bdnews24.com Editor-in-Chief Toufique Imrose Khalidi, The Daily Janakantha Executive Editor Swadesh Roy and senior journalist Abed Khan attending the meeting of the Editors Guild, Bangladesh at the bdnews24.com offices in Dhaka on Friday.

Editors Guild forms committee

Abdul Mannan has set up his repair team in one of the 'Paharas'. He takes up to three days to finish repairing a boat. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Ghoramis: Repairers of boats

Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina and the other newly elected MPs of the party paying homage to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing wreath on his mural at the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum in Dhaka on Friday, a day after taking oath. Photo: PID

January 04, 2019

Cricketer Mashrafe Bin Mortaza has been the biggest sensation in the elections. The Awami League MP from Narail-2 seat wore a Mujib Coat when he came to parliament to be sworn in on Thursday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

MPs take oath

Artists and celebrities paint a wall at Banani during a campaign for a clean Dhaka on Thursday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

January 03, 2019

People cross the darkened waters of the Buriganga River by boat in the Babubazar area. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

The darkened waters of the Buriganga

Workers from Gazipur’s Doreen Garments protest the firing of more than 200 coworkers, in front of the BGMEA building in Dhaka on Wednesday.

January 2, 2019

The numbers

New Year Celebration around the world

Happy students show off the new textbooks they received on Tuesday, the first day of the new year. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Textbook festival

Agitated people set a bus on fire near Hajipara Petrol Pump following the deaths of two female garment workers in a road accident in Dhaka’s Malibagh area on Tuesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

January 1, 2019

Chinese Ambassador Zhang Zuo congratulates Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on the Awami League’s landslide win in the 11th national parliamentary election. Photo: Saiful Islam Kallol

Prime minister receives congratulations

Children playing as the sun sets at South Kattoli Rani Rashmoni Ghat pier in Chattogram on the New Year’s Eve, 2018. Photo: Sumon Babu

December 31, 2018

Dhaka-1 seat independent candidate Salma Islam breaks down in tears on Sunday afternoon during a press conference announcing that she was stepping aside from the race. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

December 30, 2018

Law enforcers are strengthening security ahead of the 11th national parliamentary election. Army personnel are searching vehicles on Dhaka’s Elephant Road on Saturday after setting up a checkpoint. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

December 29, 2018

Just a day left before the election and most offices have closed. The streets were nearly empty at Dhaka's Bangla Motor on Friday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

The election exodus

Fire breaks out at Zaman Tower in Purana Paltan on Friday, spreading from the office of the National Credit Rating Ltd located at the 8th storey of the 16-storey building. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

December 28, 2018

Discussants at a special event on the parliamentary elections co-organised on Thursday by bdnews24.com and Deutsche Welle on how they want to see Bangladesh.

December 27, 2018

Bangladesh ODI captain and Narail-2 Awami League candidate Mashrafe Bin Mortaza meets voters in his constituency ahead of the Dec 30 polls.

The campaign trail

Officials sorting election materials for polling stations at Chattogram Gymnasium on Wednesday, four days before the general election. Photo: Suman Babu

December 26, 2018

Pope Francis delivers the

World celebrates Christmas

Millions of taka in cash and cheque were seized during a RAB raid on export-import firm United Corporation's Motijheel offices over alleged election fraud on Tuesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

December 25, 2018

Students of Dr Khastagir Government Girls' High School celebrating the PEC, JSC exam results on Monday. Photo: Suman Babu

PEC-JSC-JDC results out

Army personnel stand guard at the Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium following the deployment of troops on Monday for the parliamentary elections. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

December 24, 2018

Members of the Professionals' Coordination Council rally at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka on Sunday urging all to vote for the pro-independence forces and boycott those who stand against the Liberation War spirit. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

December 23, 2018

Various social, cultural and political organisations came to say their final farewell to departed film director Amjad Hossain at Dhaka’s Central Shaheed Minar on Saturday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Last respects paid to Amjad Hossain

Posters for the Awami League and BNP candidates in the Dhaka-10 parliamentary race hang in Dhanmondi. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

December 22, 2018

The remains of a Hindu family home at Thakurgaon's Singia Shahapara village in the aftermath of an arson attack that destroyed eight huts and killed seven goats on early Friday.

December 21, 2018

A trader attends to his plants. A customer browses the plants on offer. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Greenery on Dhaka footpaths

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina addressed a campaign rally in Narail on Thursday from her Sudha Sadan residence in Dhaka via video conference. The Awami League candidate, national cricketer Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, accompanied her.

December 20, 2018

Haji Mohammad Salim, the Awami League candidate for the Dhaka-7 constituency, campaigning at Old Dhaka's Posta on Wednesday.

Hectic electioneering

Dhaka residents trying to stay warm in winter clothes even at high noon as a spell of cold weather has engulfed the country. This photo was taken from Dhaka University campus on Wednesday.

December 19, 2018

Large and small pavilions are under construction on the site of the 28th Dhaka International Trade Fair in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Trade fair preparations

Labourers gather around a fire for warmth in Dhaka’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area as cyclone Phethai brings rain and cloudy weather to the capital. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

December 18, 2018

Dr Kamal Hossain leading a Jatiya Oikya Front delegation to the Election Commission in Dhaka on Monday to lodge complaints about attacks on and cases against the candidates and supporters of the alliance. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

December 17, 2018

The National Martyrs’ Memorial is strewn with flowers on the 47th anniversary of Victory Day. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

47 years of victory

Chhaynaut held a cultural programme at the Dhaka University's central playground on Friday to celebrate the Victory Day. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

December 16, 2018

Farmers prepare to take their turnips to market at Keraniganj’s Jagannathpur. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Good harvest, poor prices