Joynal Abedin Shishir | The Business Standard

Low-income people queue up to buy rice and flour at discounted prices from a truck of Dhaka Rationing at Badda on Sunday. Due to the ongoing lockdown, subsidised food has become an essential component of survival for the low-income groups. Photo: Mumit M

Bangladesh

Low-income people’s food, protein intake down in lockdown

Photo: Jahir Rayhan/TBS

Bangladesh

No lockdown in the capital at night!

Photo: Mumit M/TBS

Economy

Pushed to the wall, they do any work to survive

A Rickshaw puller sits idly on his carrier in absence of passengers amid an intermittent rain across the county. Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed/TBS

Bangladesh

Virus curbs: Commuters bear the brunt

File Photo: Reuters

Covid-19 in Bangladesh

195 more die, hospitals struggle with surging cases

Shoppers check out clothes to buy at the capital’s New Market on Friday ahead of Eid-ul-Adha. Dhaka’s markets quickly returned to normalcy after the strict nationwide lockdown was eased two days ago on Thursday. Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed

Markets

Dhaka markets abuzz with Eid shoppers on weekend

Illustration: TBS

Economy

Automobile workshops down and out

Covid-19 in Bangladesh

Lockdown day 5: Movements increase, people show lame excuses

Paper cone: A thriving backward linkage industry

Economy

Paper cone: A thriving backward linkage industry

Photo: Collected

Covid-19 in Bangladesh

Low-income people on the edge

Photo- Joynal Abedin Shishir

Bangladesh

Commuters suffer as lockdown sends buses off roads

Community centres lose big in pandemic

Economy

Community centres lose big in pandemic

A customer surveys cars in an automobile showroom at the capital’s Tejgaon Link Road. The sales of Japanese reconditioned cars have dropped by almost 40% since the beginning of the pandemic. Traders in the sector continue to suffer as they have not received stimulus support from the government. Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed

Bazaar

Reconditioned car trade loses Tk1,500cr to pandemic