I don’t have any experience of earthquakes but on Friday night I really felt it a few seconds at the same time my 14-month babies and his mother felt the same jolted. She run from the bedroom with my kids. Old part of the Dhaka is the one of the risky area for earthquakes. . . .
According to the news paper three moderate earthquakes shook different parts of the country including capital Dhaka on Friday night, and Saturday afternoon. When Muslims were to celebrating their greatest religious festivals Eid-ul-Fitr.
Old Dhaka, Shakharibazar August 2005. Old part of Dhaka is the one of the risky area for earthquakes.Copy Right: Monirul Alam
Panicked people especially in Old Dhaka and Mirpur areas came out of their homes after the quakes jolted their houses.
The first tremor was felt for few seconds at 10:42pm while the second one with the magnitude of 4.8 on the Richter scale also stay for a while and shooked the country at 11:24:17pm. and the A 5.2 magnitude aftershock shook different parts of the country Saturday afternoon.
Dhaka, 2005. A garment worker climb into the roof of launch at the Sadarghat launch terminal, every year the situation is almost same home bound people are gather on the launch, bas and train station and taking risky journey ahead of Eid festival. The Eid-Ul-Fitr is the biggest festive event of Muslim, the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. Copy Right: Monirul Alam
Dhaka September 2010.Bangladeshi Muslims offer Jummat-Ul-Vida prayers on the last Friday of Ramadan at the National Mosque of Bangladesh, Baitul Mukarram in Dhaka. ahead of the Eid al-Fitr festival marks the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, during which devout Muslims abstain from food, drink, smoking and sex from dawn to dusk. Copy Right: Monirul Alam
In the capital thousand of men, women and children joined the historical Janmashtami rally and procession brought out from Dhakeswari Temple in Old Dhaka. Hindus community celebrates Janmashtami, the birthday of Lord Krishna. The days aimed festivity and religious fervor across the country.
Dhaka September 2010.Six month Krishna is sleeping, he joins the historical Janmashtami rally with his parents, the rally brought out from Dhakeswari Temple in Old Dhaka. Copy Right: Monirul Alam
According to the Hindu faith, Krishna, the incarnation of God, descended to this world some 5,500 years ago with a vow to establish love, truth and justice. Devotees on this day celebrate his birth on earth.
Dhaka August 2010. Bangladeshi Muslim devotees wait for Iftar, the meal that breaks the day long fast during holy Ramadan. Every day more then thousand of Muslims attend at Baitul Mukarram mosque at Dhaka for Iftar party. The Islamic foundation organized this programmed during the Ramadan month . Copy Right:Moirul Alam
Dhaka August 2010.Dhaka is a city with no end of problems. Power, Water, Sewage, Pollution. But anyone you ask will tell you that the biggest problem we face in the capital today is traffic, and the problem is getting worse every day. The average man and woman has to spend hours a day in traffic, just to get to work, or to school, or the market, or even to visit friends and relatives. Copy Right:Monirul Alam
Nation observed the National Mourning Day to mark the death anniversary of its founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who was killed in a military-led putsch on this day in 1975. Twenty-eight people, including his wife and three sons, were killed. The survivors included his two daughters who were abroad. Sunday 15 August was a public holiday with prayer meetings being held in mosques, churches and temples.
Dhaka, August 2010. People place wreath at the portrait of Banggbandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in front of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi. Copy Right:Monirul Alam
Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s LIFE
Mujib was born on Mar 17, 1920 at Tungipara in Gopalganj.
He came to limelight with the formation of Purba Pakistan Chhatra League following the end of British rule in the Indian sub-continent.
Mujib continued to rise in national politics because of his active involvement in the language movement in 1952, 1954 general elections, and six-point declaration in 1966. His arrest in the Agarata conspiracy case catapulted him into the national limelight, making him the undisputed leader of the Bengali’s freedom struggle against Pakistani exploitation.
He was given the title of ‘Bangabandhu’ – friend of the Bengal- after he was freed from jail in 1969.
On Mar 7, 1971 Mujib delivered the historical speech at Racecourse Maidan (now Suhrawardy Udyan), which inspired the countrymen to join the war of independence.
Dhaka, August 2010. Nation observed the National Mourning Day to mark the death anniversary of its founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Copy Right:Monirul Alam
A handful of renegade army officials on Aug 15, 1975 killed Mujib along with his wife Begum Fazilatunnesa, sons Sheikh Kamal, Sheikh Jamal and Sheikh Russel, daughters-in-law Sultana Kamal Khuki and Parveen Jamal Rosy, Mujib’s younger brother Sheikh Abu Naser, nephew Sheikh Fazlul Haque Moni, Moni’s pregnant wife Begum Arju Moni, Mujib’s brother-in-law Abdur Rab Serniabat, Serniabat’s daughter, son, nephew and grandson, Mujib’s security chief Col Jamiluddin Ahmed, three guests and four domestic workers.
Mujib’s daughter Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her younger sister Sheikh Rehana, were in Europe and thus escaped the massacre on that fateful night.
Old Dhaka August 2010.The traffic system have failed to do anything about this problem and the situation is going from bad to worse day by day. Copy Right: Monirul Alam
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday demanded the government scrap the $1 billion loan deal with India.Addressing a rally before a mass procession in the capital, she urged people to wake up and unite in efforts to bring about a Bangladesh free from all shackles . . .
Dhaka Augusr 2010 BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia lead a mass rally at Paltan Maidan in the capital. Copy Right-Monirul Alam
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