Seven-year-old Mariam carries her father’s lunch, wrapped in a cloth, on her head as she walks to the paddy field where he works. The photo was taken in the Bukhainagar area of Barishal Sadar upazila recently. Photo: Titu Das

A blockade by mobile phone traders and their employees at Sonargaon hotel intersection created severe gridlocks that spread across the city yesterday evening, causing immense suffering to commuters after office hours. The demonstrators protested against the government decision to deactivate unauthorised handsets. Photo: Palash Khan

Though the iron bar was lowered to stop pedestrians and vehicles before the Tejgaon level crossing, a man with a rickshaw-van and others crossed the barrier and stood nonchalant inches away from a train at speed yesterday. Photo: Prabir Das