Members of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Wednesday arrested the banned militant outfit Ansar Al Islam’s member Dr Jakir Hossain from the capital’s Jatrabari area, eight days after he went missing from work at the Bhanga upazila health complex in Faridpur.   Dr Jakir Hossain is son of Md Shamsul Alam of Bangram Residential Area in Manikganj district town. He was produced before a Faridpur court with a remand prayer while it granted a two day remand for interrogation, Ahmedul Islam, additional deputy commissioner of the CTTC, said.   Dr Jakir joined the government’s health department as an assistant surgeon at Tujarpur Health Center under the upazila on December 11, 2019, through the 38th  BCS, he said.    However, the Tujarpur facility only existed in theory, so he remained attached throughout to the Bhanga UHC. Dr Jakir went missing from his workplace on the afternoon of November 8, after finishing his duty. He sent an SMS to the Upazila Health and Family Planning officer and his colleagues saying that he was going to Dhaka because of the illness of his mother-in-law. Later his mobile phone was found switched off. Read more: Militancy under full control in Bangladesh: IGP On early November 9, he also sent another SMS to his wife Koly, saying that his mobile phone would die anytime due to low battery. Dr Mohsin Uddin Fakir, officer of Bhanga Upazila Health and Family Planning, said they came to know about the arrest of Dr Jakir after talking to the concerned police station. “He was a member of the banned militant outfit,” he added.    Read more: Drug, militancy to be uprooted at any cost: Home Minister

A physician who set herself on fire died at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Aditi Sarkar, 38, a registrar of Pediatrics Department of Mitford Hospital. Read: Narayanganj fire: 2 burn victims die at DMCH She breathed her last around 10 am after suffering with 50 per cent burn injuries for five days , said Coordinator of Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery (SHNIBPS) Dr Samanta Lal Sen. Aditi set herself on fire at her home at Hare Street in the city Friday afternoon, said Kabir Hossain Hawladar, officer-in-charge (OC) of Wari police station.  She told the physicians of the Burn Institute that she had set herself on fire out of anger following an altercation with her husband, said the OC. Aditi's husband engineer Manas Mandal claimed that his wife had been sick and upset for the several days. Read:Prisoner dies at DMCH As he returned home on Friday afternoon, he heard his wife screaming in the next room and found Aditi on fire. He poured water on her immediately, he claimed. He managed an ambulance calling the national emergency service number 999 and took her to the burn institute, he added.

Police have recovered the body of a young physician from his flat at Nikunjo in the city’s Khilkhet area. The deceased was identified as Dr Joydeb Chandra Das, 25, son of Dilip Chandra Das of South Salanda Kumarpara under Parbotipur thana in Dinajpur. Police said they recovered the body from his flat on the 8th floor of a building on Saturday night. Read:3 members of a family found dead in Mirsarai: 2 held The body was sent to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital morgue for an autopsy. Khilkhet Police Station SI Russel Pervez said the CID crime scene unit collected evidences from the spot. Police suspected that Dr Joydeb has committed suicide.

Twelve people, including six members of a family and a female physician, have been diagnosed with coronavirus in Nilphamari district.   Civil Surgeon Dr Ronojit Kumar Barman said with the new ones, total coronavirus cases rose to 52 in the district.   They received the reports of sample test from Dinajpur M Abdu Rahim Medical College Hospital and Rangpur Medical College Hospital on Sunday night.   Among the infected people there is a female physician of Dimla upazila hospital. The physician was giving treatment at the isolation ward of the hospital.

Two people including a female physician were diagnosed with coronavirus in Dohar upazila on Sunday.   With the two new cases, total coronavirus cases rose to six in the upazila, said upazila health and family planning officer Md Jasim Uddin on Monday morning.   He said that 11 samples were sent to Dhaka for test. They received the test results in the early morning.   Among the new case, there is a 50-year old female physician of Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital and and 21-year old young man who is a resident of Uttar Joypara village.   The physician is staying in Dhaka now, said the official.   Earlier, a man died from coronavirus in the upazila.

A physician, who tested positive for coronavirus, was taken to the isolation unit of Shaheed Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital in the city from home-quarantine on Tuesday night after his condition deteriorated.