A worker installs an AI-powered surveillance camera and a semi-automatic traffic light system at a street intersection in Dhaka’s Zia Udyan yesterday. The Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s AI-based Road Transport Act Violation Detection System has reportedly improved driving behaviour on the capital’s streets, prompting the installation of more such surveillance measures. Photo: PRABIR DAS

Chattogram city’s first and only escalator-equipped footbridge, inaugurated on January 30, 2020, on Zakir Hossain Road in the Murgi Farm area, lies in disrepair. It has remained closed since its inauguration, with valuable components deteriorating and some even being stolen, underscoring the authorities’ failure to make it operational. The photo was taken yesterday. Photo: RAJIB RAIHAN

Locals and officials dump geo bags along the banks of the Jamuna after intense water pressure triggered erosion and cracked the Tarakandi-Tangail regional highway in the Sakharia area of Hemnagar union in Tangail’s Gopalpur upazila. Authorities fear that if the road-cum-embankment collapses, large parts of Gopalpur and adjacent areas could be flooded. The photo was taken yesterday. Photo: Star