Loggers remove trees through the hilly roads inside a forest in Chittagong's Rangunia upazila a couple of days ago. The bio-rich forest is shrinking every day as trees are cut for brick kilns and furniture industry. Photo: Prabir Das
IT'S NOT FOG… People cover their noses to walk past as a pall of dust hangs in the air on this street near the capital's Mohakhali bus terminal yesterday. Dust from the battered street makes life for locals and other city dwellers difficult. Polluted air in Dhaka during the dry season is one of the main reasons behind respiratory diseases. Photo: Amran Hossain
IT'S NOT FOG… People cover their noses to walk past as a pall of dust hangs in the air on this street near the capital's Mohakhali bus terminal yesterday. Dust from the battered street makes life for locals and other city dwellers difficult. Polluted air in Dhaka during the dry season is one of the main reasons behind respiratory diseases. Photo: Amran Hossain
Fishermen fishing in the Buriganga on Sunday. Once too polluted to sustain aquatic life, the river water got clear due to monsoon rain and relocation of tanneries from nearby Hazaribagh, resulting in an abundance of fish. Photo: Rashed Shumon
Children are also having a ball as they are catching fish with their buckets from the river bank near Basila in Dhaka.
Photo: Rashed Shumon
A few of their catch.Photo: Rashed Shumon
