Five condemned killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman were hanged early today at Dhaka Central Jail amid tight security. Mohiuddin Ahmed (artillery) was first to be executed at 12:05am and then four others walked to the gallows one after another.Four others are Maj (retd) Bazlul Huda, Lt Col (retd) Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Syed...
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Three children pose while playing in the muddy water in the rural area. Dhaka, Bangladesh. May 24 2009,Photo- Sharif Sarwar.
Rural children play in the water when they come to river for bathing. Dhaka, Bangladesh. May 24 2009,Photo- Sharif Sarwar.
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Rangamati, Bangladesh. March 15 2009
Indigenous children studying in a primary school in a rural village at Boshonto in Rangamati hill area. There are many schools established by Government and NGO’s in the hill tracts area for the indigenous children. Records show that 150,000 children from indigenous communities have dropped out of school, and the...
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Awami League president Sheikh Hasina, in her first public speech on after her election victory, urged all parties to work together for the betterment of Bangladesh stressing the role of the opposition in future governance.
Dhaka, Bangladesh. December 31 2008
Photo- Munira Morshed Munni, DRIK News
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In the past only once had the leaders of the two dominant political parties and rivals Khaleda Zia and Shiekh Hasina cooperated. The heads of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Awami League (AL) have not met or even spoken to each other for more than a decade since 1990 when they had worked unitedly...
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Photo- Noor Alam,Drik*NEWS.
Today is Christmas Day. This day honors the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. To celebrate this day the Christian community performs lots of customs like gift giving, church celebrations, paying homage to the grave of beloved one, various decoration that includes Christmas tree nativity scenes etc. Dhaka, Bangladesh. December 25 2008.
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Photo:Munir uz Zaman, DrikNEWS
Large fire caught in a slum known as sweeper colony in Hazaribag caused more than 100 houses burnt down. Fire fighters rushed to the place in time and brought the fire down before it cause any casualties and huge lose of properties. Dhaka, Bangladesh. November 21 2008.
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Sand artists’ of the Aryan Group, Md. Moynul Haque, Deep Roy, Kuljit Das, Jun Das and Rahul Roy making sculpture on sand dunce against Terror in mighty Brahmaputra near Guwahati the capital city of India’s Northeastern state, Assam, India. November 12 2008
Photo-Rajib Jyoti Sarma, Guwahati,India.DrikNEWS.
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Collage of unimaginable shades of musty yellow, hues of grey, black and sallow brown. A lone low watt electric bulb makes a tiny halo of illumination that hardly reaches the floor. At regular intervals constant whirring and deafening clanging ring throughout the place. At first glance one would not be able to distinguish the...
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