Family members of July uprising victims and martyrs, who received cheques yesterday, pose for a photo with Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus at his Tejgaon office. Before that, the chief adviser inaugurated a programme for providing state financial assistance to the families of uprising victims. Photo: PID

A woman searching for anything left that could be salvaged after a devastating fire burnt hers and four other shanties at Jafar Colony in Chattogram city’s Baluar Dighir Par area yesterday morning. A couple was killed, and three others were injured. Photo: Rajib Raihan

TCB trucks began distributing Ramadan essentials, including sugar, dates, edible oil, lentils, and chickpeas, yesterday. Although this truck, stationed at the Shantinagar intersection in the capital, had packages for 250 low-income consumers, over 1,000 people turned up. PHOTO: ANISUR RAHMAN

Three-year-old Tahosin raises his hand and turns away as police shoot water from a cannon directly at him and his mother, a female protester from Brahmanbaria, during a sit-in at Shahbagh intersection yesterday afternoon. Police used batons, water cannons, and teargas shells to disperse the protesters demanding their appointment as assistant teachers in government primary schools. PHOTO: PRABIR DAS