A Bangladeshi painter prepares a digital banner as a portrait of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, which are displayed in the city during of Singh’s visit in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Singh is scheduled to visit Bangladesh on 6 September 2011. Dhaka September 2011. © Monirul Alam
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Thousand of Bangladeshi people along with mass garment workers are leaving from the capital of Dhaka, on Tuesday. They are going to their home town is in celebrating Eid-ul-Fitar. Eid-ul-Fitar is the largest Muslim’s religious festival. After the whole month of fasting in Ramadan the Muslim’s around the world will be celebrate their religious festival.
A number of home bound people are waiting in a airport railway station for train. But the train is not to come on time, because of rush schedule and mismanagement said a passenger Ahmed, who are waiting for train, he around on the station an one and half hour’s for waiting Rangpure Express.
When the train arrives is in station, it’s already overcrowded look like a human sea. Within a few minutes people rush on the train and agitate each other when they ride on the train roof. A garments worker, Shafali Bagum said, we are straggling on the way of our risky journey, but we are finally happy to go to our home and celebrate Eid-ul-Fitar with our loved ones.” Reports, monirul alam, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 30 September 2011.
After the Eid Jammat (congregation) children’s exchange their love in front of Baitul Mukarram mosque. Eid-ul-Fitr, the biggest religious festival of the Muslims, is being celebrated across the country on Wednesday 31 August .
After a month-long fasting, Muslims sought divine blessings, peace, progress and prosperity in Eid congregations across the country. The main jamaat held at the National Eidgah on the High Court premises in the city at 8:30am. The three-day public holiday on this occasion started Tuesday. Dhaka August 2011. © Monirul Alam
Bangladeshi Muslims overcrowd a train as others wait their turn for transport to head home ahead of Eid al-Fitr in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 20 August. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. August 2011.© Monirul Alam
Thousand of Bangladeshi people move from Dhaka by train, bas and launch for celebration the Eid-ul-Fitr with their relatives who live in village. The Eid-ul Fitar is a muslims largest religious festival in Bangladesh. After a month-long fasting, Muslims sought divine blessings, peace, progress and prosperity in Eid congregations across the country.
Limon Hossain of Jhalakathi tries to walk with an artificial leg yesterday at Ganoshasthya Nagar Hospital in Dhaka on 29 august 2011.Limon Hossain, a college student who was shot and maimed by Rab five months ago, was fitted with an artificial leg in the technical team of Centre for Disability in Development (CDD) in Savar. A Rapid Action Battalion team on March 23 shot the 16-year-old boy in the left leg when he was taking his cows to a grazing field at Chhaturia village of Jhalakathi. After four days, the leg had to be amputated from the thigh to stop the spread of infection due to excessive bleeding. August 2011. © Monirul Alam
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“It is the almighty Allah who saved me. But I lost 24 of my party leaders and activists including Ivy Rahman.”
– Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina said to media, a well-planned attack designed to eliminate AL’s entire leadership and there is no doubt the BNP-Jamaat alliance government had a hand in it. Hasina addressing a programmed marking the seventh anniversary of the attack at Bangabandhu Avenue.
In 2004, August, , 21 blasts at an Awami League rally on Bangabandhu Avenue killed 24 leaders and workers including Ivy Rahman, wife of now President Zillur Rahman, and injured 300 others including Sheikh Hasina, now prime minister. August 2011. © Monirul Alam
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“I am very happy and thanks to all to observed WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY DAY in 19 August………………..monirul alam”
World Photography Day originates from the invention of the Daguerreotype, a photographic processes developed by Louis Daguerre. On January 9, 1839, The French Academy of Sciences announced the daguerreotype process. A few months later, on August 19, 1839, the French government announced the invention as a gift “Free to the World.”
Another photographic processes, the Calotype, was also invented in 1839 by William Fox Talbot (it was announced in 1841). Together, the invention of both the Daguerreotype and Calotype mark 1839 as the year that photography was invented.
If you’re interested in learning more about the history of photography, take a look at the following article on Wikipedia: History of Photography
A shocked Catherine Masud, Tareque’s widow touches her husband coffin for the last time and her mother Alfreda Shaper holding him at funeral in Nurpur village of Bhanga upazila in Faridpur on 17 August 2011
According to the news media report Tareque Masud, the internationally acclaimed filmmaker, was buried around 2:40pm in the family yard of his village home at Nurpur under Bhanga upazila in Faridpur.
Four others including ATN News CEO Mishuk Munier also died in the accident that happened on their way to meet the Manikganj deputy commissioner for permission to shoot for his “epic” film Kagojer Phool.
Born in 1956, Tareque Masud directed a number of acclaimed films including Muktir Gaan (The Song of Freedom) in 1995 and Matir Moina in 2002 which won a FIPRESCI Prize at the Cannes Film Festival of the year.
Some of his other masterpieces include Sonar Beri (The Chains of Gold), Adam Surat (The Inner Strength), Ontorjatra (The Homeland), Noroshundor (The Barber) and Runway.© Monirul Alam
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Cultural personalities, eminent citizens and thousands of people paid their last respect to eminent filmmaker Tareque Masud and Chief Executive Officer of ATN News Ashfaque Munier, popularly known as Mishuk Munier the Central Shaheed Minar premises in the city yesterday on 13 August.
According to the news paper and tv channel, five of them were killed as their microbus collided with a Chuadanga-bound passenger bus on Dhaka-Aricha highway at Ghior sub district in Manikganj district on August 13,2011
Eminent film producer and Tareque’s wife Catherine Masud, Painter couple Dhali Al Mamun and Dilara Zaman also were injured while the team were on a recce visit for `Kagojer Phool’ a feature film to be made.
After their funeral the bodies have been kept at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU). According to the family members of Masud, the schedule of his burial will be fixed after his mother-in-law arrives in Dhaka from the USA on Monday. Munier will be buried at the Banani Graveyard on Tuesday.
Dhaka 14 August 2011. © Monirul Alam
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