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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BNP secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain and Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed mumble in a rally organize by BNP lead 4 party alliances in Engineers Institute auditorium while an arrest warrant issued against Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed few days ago in Barapukuria coal-mine graft case. Already The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) finally submitted...
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Photo:Amdadul Huq, DrikNEWS. Dhaka, Bangladesh. August 22 2008. Tattered and torn bank notes can be easily exchanged for new ones even outside commercial banks for a certain amount of commission. This is a common practice on the busy streets in the Gulistan area of the capital where men, who have been in this business...
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We are not respected by anyone because we are sweepers. But in truth we are not sweepers; we should be called CLEANERS- Joshna Rani Das. Residing in a ‘sweepers’ colony’ at Tikatoly, Dhaka many like Joshna Rani give vent to years’ of suppressed emotions. This colony, a five storied building, alone houses nearly 210...
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Photo- Stringer, Burma/*Drik*NEWS.
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Farida Parvin (30), a slum dweller mother passes time with her two years old child. Although today is International Mother’s Day many mothers in Bangladesh like Farida don’t know about it. The day has been observed all over the world on the second Sunday of May for the last few years. Dhaka, Bangladesh. May...
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Alma earns Taka 2000 to 2500 per day by begging. However, she has to pay 700 taka per month as house rent. Since her husband’s death seven years ago she says she is helpless with her nine years-old physically handicapped boy Almas. These recent days have been very difficult for her since she can...
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A curfew was declared. Streets were off limit to the public while jeeps and truck-loads of military personnel were coming out of the barracks. Those boots that left the cantonment on January 11, 2007 keep stomping Bangladesh to date, one year...
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