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BSF troops pick Bangladeshi up from Kurigram border
Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) picked a Bangladeshi national up from Khetarchar frontier area in Roumari upazila on Friday night.
Locals said the BSF troops chased a group of 15 Bangladeshis cattle traders when they got close to pillar No. 1056 at night and dragged away Ismail Hossain alias Kalu, son of Belal Hossain of Chargram in Datbhanga upazila.
“We've tried to contact BSF to discuss it , but couldn’t reach them yet,” said Lt Col SM Azad, commanding officer of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) battalion-35.
Engineer held for spreading rumour over coronavirus
Police arrested an engineer of Local Government Engineering Department from Boalkhali on Friday night following his facebook post spearding rumour over coronavirus.
The arrestee was identified a ABM Reza, deputy assistant engineer of Satkania upazila.
Police said that Reza posted on his facebook mentioning that coronavirus patient was detected in Boalkhali.
As police could not spot any coronavirus patient, they arrested Reza, said Helal Uddin Mohammad Faruk, officer-in-charge of Boalkhali Police Station.
Missing Cumilla day-labourer found dead on rail tracks
Police recovered the body of a day-labourer from rail tracks in Lalmai upazila on Friday, 15 days after he went missing.
648 home-quarantined in Chandpur: Official
Although no-one has tested positive for coronavirus, a total of 648 Bangladeshi expatriates who returned home recently from abroad have been kept in home-quarantine in eight upazilas of the district till Friday as a precautionary measure to prevent the spread of the virus.
Mohammad Abdullah Al Mahmud Zaman, additional deputy commissioner of Chandpur, said the Bangladeshi nationals returned home from different countries in the last 15-16 days.
All of them have been placed in self-isolation at their respective homes following the detection of coronavirus cases in Bangladesh, he said. “They’ve been advised to stay at their respective homes for 14 days.”
Zaman, however, said no-one of the Bangladeshi expatriates tested positive for coronavirus.
He also informed that leaflets are being distributed among people at bus stands, launch terminals and educational institutions in all eight upazilas of the district to make people aware about Covid-19 disease.
Civil Surgeon of the district Dr Md Sakhawat Ullah told UNB that medical teams are ready in all the upazilas to tackle any situation while local representatives have been creating awareness in their respective areas.
Meanwhile, one of the three coronavirus patients returned home after making full recovery, said Director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) Prof Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora on Friday.
She came up with the information at a press briefing arranged by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) at Mohakhali in the city.
"Two of the three infected patients have recovered fully. One of them has returned home while another is still at the hospital as some of the patient's family members are quarantined at home," Dr Flora said.
She said no new case of coronavirus has been detected in the country in the last 24 hours.
Besides, the death toll from the coronavirus has crossed 5,000 globally as of Friday evening.
2 lakh Yaba pills seized in Chattogram
Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard on Friday seized 2 lakh Yaba pills in a drive from Karnaphuli River in Chattogram.
Two held for ‘raping’ 8-year-old girl in Dinajpur
Police have arrested two people from Hili Bazar in Hakimpur upazila of Dinajpur district for allegedly raping an eight-year-old girl with autism.
Child killed in Gibandha road crash
A three years old child was killed after being hit by a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Majhipara village of Sundarganj in the district.
3 get life for raping girl in Thakurgaon
A tribunal here on Thursday convicted three people and sentenced them to life term imprisonment in a case filed over gang-rape of a young girl in 2008.
Indian gets BD passport; 8 sued in Rajshahi
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Thursday filed a case against the assistant director of Rajshahi Passport office and seven other people for issuing a Bangladeshi passport to an Indian citizen.
Two ‘Allahr Dal’ members held in Nilphamari
The Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested two suspected members of banned militant outfit ‘Allahr Dal’ in two separate drives from Sadar and Jaldhaka upazilas on Wednesday night.