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Winners at the gala award ceremony of the film, photography, and lyrics competition Celebrating Life Contest 2014, with the chief guest, Cultural Affairs Minister Asaudzzaman Noor, and Standard Chartered Bank Chief Executive Officer Jim McCabe in Osmani Memorial Auditorium of the capital yesterday. The contest is a Standard Chartered Bank-The Daily Star initiative . The theme of the seventh year was ‘Living in Harmony’ Photo: Rashed Shumon And Amran Hossain
Firefighters trying to douse the fire on a bus on Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue. The Mirpur-bound bus was set alight around 8:20 pm during yesterday’s hartal enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami. Photo: Amran Hossain
Frequency of different types of attacks against journalists and online activists
Confined to her Gulshan office since Saturday night, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia speaks to her party men and the press yesterday from inside the office premises, cordoned off by law enforcers.
Dhaka Reporters Unity forms a human chain left, before Jatiya Press Club in the capital while journalists of Chittagong form another right, before Chittagong Press Club yesterday demanding immediate arrest of and exemplary punishment to the murderers of the journalist couple, Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi.Photo: STAR
Confined to her Gulshan office since Saturday night, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia speaks to her party men and the press yesterday from inside the office premises, cordoned off by law enforcers.
Two men stamp the pink ballot papers for the councilor post reserved for women at Khilgaon Model College polling center at 1:33 pm yesterday. Photo: Star
A worker of a garage giving a rundown bus a fresh coat of paint at Matuail in Dhaka on Wednesday. Old unfit buses are being made to look good so that mobile courts do not stop and find them. Photo: Amran Hossain
A policeman punches a protester from behind after nabbing him during the demonstrations. Photo: Amran Hossain
Winners at the gala award ceremony of the film, photography, and lyrics competition Celebrating Life Contest 2014, with the chief guest, Cultural Affairs Minister Asaudzzaman Noor, and Standard Chartered Bank Chief Executive Officer Jim McCabe in Osmani Memorial Auditorium of the capital yesterday. The contest is a Standard Chartered Bank-The Daily Star initiative . The theme of the seventh year was ‘Living in Harmony’ Photo: Rashed Shumon And Amran Hossain
Firefighters trying to douse the fire on a bus on Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue. The Mirpur-bound bus was set alight around 8:20 pm during yesterday’s hartal enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami. Photo: Amran Hossain
Models sashay down the catwalk at a fashion show at the concluding session of Bangladesh Denim Expo at the Radisson hotel in Dhaka on Tuesday. Photo: Amran Hossain
A policeman tears off the tinted sheet from the window of a sports car on Minto Road in the capital yesterday after the deadline for motorists to remove the tinted windows and screens from their vehicles ended on Saturday. Photo: Amran Hossain
Fingers Crossed : Protesters gather at Gonojagoron Mancha at Motijheel yesterday to wait for the verdict delivery of Jamaat Nayeb-e-Ameer Delawar Hossain Sayedee’s war crimes case. They said they would go home in elation if he was given death sentence or else they would stay there demanding the capital punishment. Photo: Amran Hossain
A police van escorts the vehicle, apparently of a minister, on the wrong side of the street near Ruposhi Bangla hotel in the capital violating traffic rules and risking a head-on collision. A long queue of vehicles follow suit to take advantage of the impunity the “minister’s” vehicle is getting. The photo was taken yesterday. Photo: Amran Hossain
Journalists at a rally in front of Jatiya Press Club in the capital yesterday organized by the Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists and Dhaka Union of Journalists demanding death penalty for war criminals and protesting attacks on journalists by Islamist parties.
A shot of the mass gathering at Shahbagh demanding death penalty to all war criminals. The photo was taken around 4:00pm yesterday. Inset– Ahmed Rajib Haidar. Photo: Amran Hossain
Police intercept a procession of Gonojagoron Mancha near the Jatiya Press Club yesterday. The Mancha activists headed towards the home ministry with mock coffins, protesting the recent killings of freethinkers and a publisher. Photo: Amran Hossain
People of all walks of life throng Shahbagh in the capital yesterday and stand in silence raising three fingers for three minutes from 4:00 pm demanding capital punishment for all war criminals of the Liberation War. The three-minute standing in silence protest was observed across the country. Photo: Amran Hossain
An office building at Purana Paltan in the capital burns, as Hefajat-e Islam men, joined by Jamaat-e-Islami activists, go on the rampage last night. Photo: Amran Hossain
Islamic books, prayer beads and mats were not spared during the violence centring on the Hefajat’s rally yesterday afternoon. The photo shows stalls and pushcarts set alight at the south gate of Baitul Mukarram mosque. Photo: Amran Hossain
A masked man attacks police with a slingshot at Paltan, which turned into a battlefield during Hefajat rally yesterday. Photo: Amran Hossain
Agitators set fire to makeshift stalls on a pavement near Purana Paltan. Photo: Amran Hossain
Activists of Hefajat-e Islam and Jamaat-e-Islami attack a policeman in an alleyway near Purana Paltan intersection in the capital yesterday afternoon Photo: Amran Hossain
