Today's gallery (17.02.2015)

The notice on the bottom says fuel oil would not be provided in cans or bottles, a recent government order being abided by the authorities of this filling station beside Matsya Bhaban in the capital yesterday in an apparent attempt to curb the petrol bomb attacks being carried out during the BNP-led 20-party alliances ongoing blockade and hartals. Photo: Anisur Rahman

An eerie blue hue taken on by the Louhajang river in Tangail due to the unabated discharge of toxic chemicals from the nearby mills and factories in the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) and adjacent areas despite repeated fines imposed by the Department of Environment (DoE) and protests by the locals. The photo of this tributary of the Jamuna river was taken behind the BSCIC area at Taratia, around one kilometre from the district DoE office. Photo: Mirza Shakil

Despite being parked by the Moulvi Pukur (pond) in Chittagong citys Chandgaon area, this bus was targeted by arsonists while the BNP-led 20-party alliances blockade continued yesterday. photo: star

Members of Turkeys Bar Associations hold a banner reading ‘The state of law, not state of police!’, and a poster depicting slain Ozgecan Aslan, in Ankara, yesterday during a march to protest against a law that strenghtens the polices power. Anger mounted in Turkey yesterday over the murder and attempted rape by a bus driver of the 20-year-old female student whose burned body was discovered on Friday, as a court placed three suspects in pre-trial detention over the brutal killing. Photo: AFP

Relatives of Egyptian Coptic Christians purportedly murdered by Islamic State group militants in Libya react after hearing the news yesterday in the village of al-Awar in Egypts southern province of Minya. Egypts President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi vowed to punish the ‘murderers’ responsible for the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians after the Islamic State group in Libya released a video Sunday purportedly showing the mass killing. Photo: AFP