HOME AND ABROAD

Pale Green Ghosts

Savar. A few months ago, the Dhaka-Aricha highway was lined with rows of beautiful trees. However, continuous dumping of garbage in that area by the Savar municipality has left many trees dead and many others dying.

Horror, Horror!

Gaibandha. Despite a ban on their sale, piranhas, a kind of omnivorous fish of South American origin, is being openly sold as a kind of rupchanda fish at a market in Gaibandha.

Revenge: A Double Edged Sword

Hebron, Palestine. Flames and smoke billow from the blown-up house of Amer Abu Eisheh, one of the Palestinians suspected in the killing of three kidnapped Israelis, in the West Bank town of Hebron.

The Day of the Saints

Rome, Italy. Rome holds a fireworks display over the Tiber river and the Castel Sant'Angelo during the Girandola feast of the city's patron saints, Saint Peter and Saint Paul.

Not a Drop to Drink

Patiala, India. An Indian man carries a clay pitcher of water on his head as he crosses parched land on a hot day at the village Bhunerheri, some 12 kms from Patiala.