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Deputy Commissioner of Tangail Md Ataul Gani has tested positive for Covid-19.
Md Mosharaf Hossain, additional deputy commissioner (general) in the district, said that health condition of DC Ataul remains stable. He is being treated in his home at government staff quarters, the official added.
DC Ataul was among 52 people who tested positive for coronavirus in Tangail in the last 24 hours.
Apart from him, Al Mamun, an assistant commissioner and executive magistrate in the district, also tested positive on Sunday, ADC Mosharaf said.
According to the District Civil Surgeon’s Office, the total number of coronavirus cases in Tangail is 1,515 till Tuesday. Of the patients, 637 are undergoing treatment and 853 have returned home after recovery and 25 have died.
No Eid Jamaat at Sholakia this year
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There will be no Eid congregation at Sholakia in Kishoreganj this year because of coronavirus pandemic.
Sholakia Eidgah Management Committee has taken the decision in a meeting for the first time in nearly 200 years’ history of Sholakia Eid congregation.
The meeting was held through videoconferencing at the DC office on Monday. DC M Sarwar Murshed Chowdhury, also the managing committee president, presided over the meeting. Committee members, alems, ulemas and journalists attended the meeting. The meeting urged all to offer Eid prayers at nearest mosque instead of open place.
Bomb blasts at Chattogram traffic police box another Neo-JMB man held
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Members of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) Unit of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) arrested a suspected member of Neo-JMB from Chakaria upazila in connection with bomb blast at a traffic police box in the city’s Sholosohor area.
The arrestee was identified as Mohammad Shahed, 24.
Tipped off, a team of CTTC unit conducted a drive at Harbang in Chakaria upazila and arrested Shahed on Monday night, said additional deputy commissioner of CTTC unit Palash Kanti Nath. With this, a total of four members of the Neo-JMB were arrested in this connection. On February 28, five people including two policemen were injured in a bomb blast inside a traffic police box in the city’s Sholoshahar Gate-2 area.
On May 4, police arrested three members of Neo-JMB from city’s Bakolia area for their suspected involvement in the incident.
Two children drown in a pond at Monpura
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Two children drowned in a pond at Monpura upazila of the district yesterday.
The victims were identified as Rima, 3, daughter of Mohammad Mainuddin and Rina, 5, daughter of Mohammad Riaz.
According to the locals, the girls were playing in the backyard in the afternoon and suddenly, they fell in the pond, adjacent to the yard.
As the children did not return home in the evening, family members started looking for them and found their bodies floating in the pond.
They were rescued and taken to the upazila health complex, where doctors declared them dead.
Residential Medical Officer of Upazila Health Complex Dr Shipon Chandra Pal confirmed the incident saying that two children died before they were taken to the health complex.
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Police Investigation Bureau (PBI), Sylhet last night arrested two youngsters in connection with the killing of Jaflong tourist guide.
The arrestees were identified as Mohammad Humayun, 15, son of Deen Mohammad and Mohammad Sajal, 16, son of Mohammad Sani of Chanpara in Rupganj Thana under Narayanganj district.
” PBI in their investigation detained them in a raid conducted in Rupganj of Narayanganj last night,” Sylhet PBI Superintendent of Police Mohammad Khaleduzzaman told this at a press conference on Tuesday.
PBI also recovered a mobile phone and a Canon 750 DSLR camera used by slain Saddam Hussain from the possessions of the arrestees.
The arrestees were handed over to the Police Station.
Saddam Hossain (30), professional tourist guide and an amateur photographer was found dead at Jaflong green area of Sylhet’s Gowainghat upazila on July 15.
Police arrested the two teenagers following a case filed by Saddam’s wife in this connection.
Baraigram blacksmiths pass busy time ahead of Eid
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Blacksmiths in Natore’s Baraigram upazila are passing busy time making sharp tools used for slaughtering sacrificial animals and processing the meat ahead of Eid-ul-Azha.
About 50 smithies at various market and Bazar areas in the upazila now become hot-spots of trading of sharp tools. A good number of people come everyday for machetes, choppers, knives and other iron-made tools. They also gather at the smithies to sharpen their old sharp tools, our local correspondent said visiting different smithies.
Blacksmith Bipen Kumar at Laxmikol Bazar said they have not much works in their hands during other periods of year because of increasing modern technology-produced sharp tools.
This is the only time when the demand of their products rise and they eagerly wait for this period to make cover of their losses in the year, he added.
Covid-19 instructions a far cry at Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar cattle markets
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About 200 cattle markets have set up in rural areas of Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar districts ahead of the upcoming Eid ul-Adha.
Meanwhile, social distance is not maintaining in these markets. Most of the buyers and sellers are not following the instruction of wearing face masks and violating social distancing rule.
Since the last week, cattle markets have been setting up at more than one place in each upazila of the two districts everyday which will continue until next Friday. According to sources from different areas of the two districts, the people don’t follow maximum awareness activities though the haat lessees try to maintain safety instructions.
In Chattogram district, Lohagara, Satkania, Patiya, Chandanaish, Banshkhali, Anwara, Rangunia and Raozan upazilas while Chakaria, Pekua, Ramu, Ukhia, Teknaf and Sadar upazilas under Cox’s Bazar districts are in dilly-dally mood to follow or implement health guidelines at cattle markets to check the spread of coronavirus.
‘Kamran Square’ is up at the SCC meeting
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Mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury has inaugurated the front point of Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) building as ‘Nagar Chattar’. Leaders and activists of Awami League and its affiliates have put up a signboard called ‘Kamran Chattar’ instead. This time the issue of making ‘Kamran Chattar’ is being raised in the monthly meeting of SCC. The meeting is scheduled for Tuesday.
SCC councilor and Awami League leader Azadur Rahman Azad said, “Bador Uddin Ahmed Kamran has been serving the people of the city for 33 years.” He has always been by his side in various movements and struggles of Sylhet. The people of Sylhet demand to name this square after him. ‘
Badr Uddin Ahmed Kamran, former mayor of SYCIC and central executive member of the Awami League, died on June 15 after being hit by a corona. Demands for ‘doing something’ to preserve his memory after his death arose from various quarters. Awami League leaders and activists demanded to make the point in front of Nagar Bhaban ‘Kamran Chattar’. SCC Mayor Arif also promised to take steps to preserve Kamran’s memory.
Expatriates suffer from getting corona certificate in Sylhet
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Expatriates are suffering for Corona certificate in Sylhet. At the end of three days of formalities, they receive the certificate. However, many are already getting sick. The reason is that even during the floods, they have to come to Sylhet to get registration, sampling and certificates. They have to be present everywhere. Although they demanded immediate simplification of the process, the concerned people said that it was not possible to speed up the process due to manpower crisis.
Meanwhile, after testing the samples in the PCR lab of Osmani Medical College, the corona report of the expatriates came positive. Expatriates have said that many people can be infected when they come to register and give samples.
After making the corona certificate compulsory for the expatriate, the process of issuing the certificate was started after taking the samples of the expatriates in Sylhet. Their sample collection has started from last Wednesday. The PCR lab of Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College is the only place for corona identification test for foreigners in Sylhet division. The test has started in that lab since last Thursday. Although the tests were done in the lab, samples of the expatriates are being collected at the booth set up at the Abul Maal Abdul Muhith Sports Complex in the city.
For this reason, they have to come to Sylhet for three days to break the quarantine and get the certificate.
Ashfaqur Rahman, an expatriate from the Middle East, said that it is not possible to accept quarantine in this way. As a result, many are getting sick. Again many have to come from distant places. As a result, there is no end to suffering. On the contrary, if time had been taken to collect and distribute certificates from one’s own area, the suffering would have been less.
