Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) activists participate in a rally in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, November 8, 2024. (Photo by Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP Photo)





Students from anti-discrimination movements attack an Awami League supporter in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, November 10, 2024. (Photo by Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP Photo)





Hindu devotees sit together in front of oil lamps and candles, and pray to Lokenath Brahmachari, a Hindu saint and philosopher, as they observe the Rakher Upobash festival, at a temple in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on November 12, 2024. (Photo by Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters)





Tablighi Jamaat's Muslim devotees offer friday prayers along a road in Dhaka on November 15, 2024. (Photo by Abdul Goni/AFP Photo)





Tablighi Jamaat's Muslim devotees offer friday prayers along a road in Dhaka on November 15, 2024. (Photo by Abdul Goni/AFP Photo)





A group of protesters stage a demonstration as Bangladesh Army personnel stand guard in front of the Bangla newspaper Prothom Alo's office in Dhaka on November 25, 2024. Protesters in Bangladesh on November 25 surrounded the offices of one of the few remaining independent newspapers, Prothom Alo, in the latest mass demonstrations demanding that critical media close. (Photo by Munir Uz Zaman/AFP Photo)





Bangladeshi Hindu leader Krishna Das Prabhu shows a victory sign as he is taken in a police van after court ordered him detained pending further proceedings in Chattogram in southeastern Bangladesh, Tuesday, November 26, 2024. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Police personnel baton-charge protesting supporters of Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari, a jailed Hindu monk leader, member of the Bangladesh Sammilito Sanatan Jagaran Jote group and former member of ISKCON, during a demonstration after court denied his bail in Chittagong on November 26, 2024. Bangladesh police said on November 25, they had arrested an outspoken Hindu monk who had been leading protests calling for the protection of the minority in the mainly Muslim nation. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Labourers in Narsingdi, in Bangladesh, are paid £5 a day for laying out miles of red cotton cloth, called salu, to dry in the last decade of November 2024. (Photo by Ariful Amin/Solent News)





Workers carry large logs of wood on their shoulders at Bangladesh's largest floating timber market in Swarupkathi, Pirojpur district on December 4, 2024. Sawn timber production is now the principal industrial wood used in Bangladesh. There are about 5,000 mills in the country, producing about 2.8 million cubic meters of sawmill wood. These mills employ an estimated 35,000 people. (Photo by Syed Mahabubul Kader/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





People walk past a giant sculpture of a “Robot Monster” made of plastic waste to raise awareness about the hazards of polluting the sea, at Cox's Bazar beach on December 5, 2024. (Photo by Abdul Goni/AFP Photo)





Aerial view of horse-drawn carts traveling on dried riverbeds in Kurigram, Bangladesh in the first decade of December 2024, illustrating the effects of drought and climate change. (Photo by Shafiul Islam/Solent News)





A father and son spend all day fishing in Naogaon, northern Bangladesh in the first decade of December 2024, before heading to market to sell their 3kg catch for the equivalent of a few pounds. The vibrant green algae makes conditions difficult but that does not deter them. (Photo by Estiak Ahmed Munna/Solent News)





Female hawkers carry utensils as they arrive at a ferry station in the winter morning to cross the Buriganga River, in Dhaka, Bangladesh on December 17, 2024. (Photo by Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters)





A worker fumigates before the Christmas celebration at a church in Dhaka, Bangladesh on December 25, 2024. (Photo by MD Mehedi Hasan/ZUMA Press Wire/Alamy Live News)





A traditional horse racing competition was held in Sagardighi Union, Ghatail Upazila, Tangail District, Bangladesh, to celebrate the Great Victory Day on December 28, 2024. Over 25 horses participated in the one-day event, drawing a crowd of around 10,000 spectators. This vibrant competition showcased rural traditions, with the energy of the race capturing the essence of community celebration and cultural heritage. (Photo by Muhammad Amdad Hossain/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





The country faces severe cold on the first day of the year. Children warm up by lighting street fires to escape the cold in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on January 1, 2025. (Photo by Md Rakibul Hasan Rafiu/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Workers are collecting tea leaves from a tea garden cultivated in the plains of Panchagarh, the northernmost district of Bangladesh on January 8, 2025. About 20 percent of the national tea production comes from northern regions. Tea production in the northern region is increasing day by day. The northern tea industry employs 25,000-30,000 people directly and indirectly. Tea leaves are sold at Tk 20 per kg. After processing, about 250 grams of tea is made from one kilogram of tea leaves. (Photo by Syed Mahabubul Kader/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Devotees climb on an overcrowded train to return home after attending the annual Muslim congregation Bishwa Ijtema in Tongi on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, February 2, 2025. (Photo by Xinhua/Alamy Live News)





Muslim devotees are offering the final prayers of the World Ijtema, considered the world's second-largest Muslim gathering after Hajj, in Tongi railway station, the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh on February 02, 2025. (Photo by Muhammad Amdad Hossain/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)