With the looming threat of nor'westers in its prime season, candidates take their Higher Secondary Certificate exam in a bamboo and corrugated tin structure serving as a makeshift examination centre of Begum Noorjahan Girls Secondary School in the absence of a building in Taltoli of Barguna yesterday. Photo: Banglar Chokh
With India's Farakka barrage upstream reducing the water flow, the once mighty Nabaganga river has fallen victim to a new enemy, encroachment, resulting in its depth now just reaching the ankle while flowing through Jhenidah. Originating near the Chuadanga town, the river runs to the Madhumati. The photo was taken yesterday. Photo: Azibor Rahman
Buyers throng Chawkbazar in Barisal city yesterday, as clothes traders offer discounts ahead of Pahela Baishakh, one of the major occasions outside two Eid days and Durga Puja when the apparel market gets a sales boost all over the country. Photo: Arifur Rahman
