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Up to 50 thousand taka fine for disobeying home quarantine
Director of Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) Dr. Meerjady Sabrina Flora said, if anybody does not obey the rules of home quarantine then legal action will be taken against the person. In this case highest fine will 50 thousand taka. She said this while speaking at a press briefing over COVID-19 situation at IEDCR headquarters in the capital on Monday. Dr. Flora said, local committee or upazila committee can take action if anybody violates home quarantine rules. They also can charge fine. She said, in the last 24 hours we have collected samples of 10 people. There are 10 people in isolation and four are under institutional quarantine. Total eight people have been detected with coronavirus in the country so far. The newly infected three patients are from the same family. Of them one boy aged under 10, one girl and one woman. AH 
16 Mar 2020,20:37
Up to 50 dead in Congo after train derails
Up to 50 people were killed when a train derailed in Congo’s southeastern province of Tanganyika in the early hours of Thursday, government officials said, although their reports on the number of casualties differed widely. The Minister for Humanitarian Affairs, Steve Mbikayi, said the derailment happened around 3 a.m. local time, near the town of Mayibaridi, and the death toll of 50 was provisional. “Speaking for the government, I present my condolences to the families affected,” he said on Twitter. The governor of Tanganyika, Zoe Kabila, later gave a lower provisional toll of 10 people killed and 30 injured. He said three of the train’s carriages had come off the tracks. Deadly transport accidents are common in Democratic Republic of Congo due to poor infrastructure and lack of regulation. Source: Reuters AH
12 Sep 2019,20:14
UP chairman hacked and shot dead in Narsingdi
A Union Parishad (UP) chairman was hacked and shot dead by miscreants at Raipura upazila in Narsingdi district. The incident took place at Alinagar Arakanda area in the upazila on Thursday afternoon. The name of the deceased is Sirajul Haque. He was the UP chairman and local union unit Awami League president of Banshgari union. According to the locals, police said, Sirajul Haque was returning to his Banshgari home after completing the disaster management committee meeting in the upazila boarded on a motorcycle. When the motorcycle reached at the Alinagar Arakanda area the miscreants stopped him. They beat the motorcycle driver away. Later they shot and hacked Sirajul and left him in a nearby water body. He was admitted to the Raipura upazila health complex under critical condition. He died on the way to Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Physician of Raipura upazila health complex Rezaul Islam Khan said, there were wounds of bullet in the neck and chops of sharp weapon in different parts of Sirajul’s body. He was shifted to Dhaka medical due to excessive bleeding. Officer in Charge of Raipura police station Delwar Hossain told Rtv online that there was feud between two rival groups for establishing supremacy in Banshgari union. The incident may be a result of that. UNO of Raipura upazila Shafiqul Islam said that Upazila chairman and ASP of Raipura-Belabo circle visited the spot. Meanwhile, tension is prevailing in the area following the killing. AH
03 May 2018,18:48
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