Dengue patients few, yet Aedes larvae at 60-70 percent of spots in some places: DNCC administrator
Although the number of dengue patients is comparatively low, Aedes mosquito larvae are being found at up to 60 to 70 percent in various areas, Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Administrator Shafiqul Islam Khan Milton has said. He gave this information…
‘Keep our own yard clean’: Cleaning Day in DSCC ward no. 50
A ‘Cleaning Day’ programme has been observed in ward no. 50 of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) with the theme ‘Let us keep our own yard clean, build a clean city’. The event was organised on Saturday (19 September) to involve…
Over 200 checkposts in capital after crude bomb blasts and bus arson
Law enforcers have beefed up security after incidents of crude bomb explosions and buses being set on fire in different areas of the capital from noon to midnight on Friday (18 September). More than two hundred checkposts have been set up on important…
Body of unidentified elderly man found on footpath beside Ramna Park
Police have recovered the body of an unidentified vagrant man, 65, from the footpath beside Ramna Park in the capital. Ramna Police Station Sub-Inspector (SI) Tanvir Hasan said that, on receiving information, the man’s body was recovered at around…
Over 3 lakh illegal foreign cigarettes recovered from two secret warehouses in Mohammadpur
Two preventive teams of the Value Added Tax Audit, Intelligence and Investigation Directorate, Dhaka, have seized 316,400 sticks of foreign cigarettes in raids on secret warehouses in two residential buildings in the capital’s Mohammadpur. The…
546 arrested in DMP drives in Dhaka in 24 hours
A total of 546 people have been arrested in the capital in the last 24 hours in regular drives of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP). During this time, 61 cases were filed. Md Aktar Hossain, deputy commissioner of police of the DMP’s Media and…