This canal in Gazipur’s Baimail area has turned into a narrow drain due to accumulation of silt and years of waste dumping by garment washing plants and dying factories. The photo was taken along the Kailakoir-Tangail road recently.
Photo: Rashed Shumon
Sixty-five-year-old Afzal Hossain, right, has been waiting near Abahani Club in Dhanmondi since 10:00am for the TCB truck to arrive. Many others have been there since much earlier to buy kitchen essentials at subsidised prices. The truck did not arrive even at noon yesterday when this photo was taken.
PHOTO: PRABIR DAS
Cops search the backpack of a woman at the entrance to the Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court in Old Dhaka yesterday. Security has been stepped up in and around the court after a crude bomb went off in the area on Monday. Photo: Amran Hossain
