Restriction on ride-sharing: bikers block road near DMP headquarters
Motorcyclists demonstrate on Topkhana Road on April 7, 2021. Photo: Palash Khan Star Digital Report Star Digital Report
Motorcyclists operating their vehicles under ride-sharing services blocked a road near Dhaka Metropolitan Police Headquarters today, demanding that the government allow them to continue their services during the weeklong restriction on public movement and transports.
A video circulated on social media shows that the bikers parked their motorcycles on the road, blocking it.
However, Officer-in-charge of Ramna Police Station Monirul Islam said the motorcyclists staged a demonstration near Moghbazar for a few minutes and then left.
Weeklong restriction begins: no bus; large number of cars, rickshaws on Dhaka roads
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No public transports are plying Dhaka streets, and markets, shops on the main thoroughfares remain closed as the government-imposed weeklong restrictions on transport and public movement began today to check the spread of coronavirus.
The restrictions came into effect from 6:00am.
Officer-goers were seen taking rickshaws or walking to their destinations.
A large number of private cars, rickshaws and CNG-run auto-rickshaws were seen on the roads including in Moghbazar, Tejgaon, Satrasta intersection, Dhanmondi and Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue.
Soon after, he saw smoke spreading out from the ICU bed.
The sudden and awful incident forced him to evacuate the ICU and shift his ailing brother Abdullah Al Mahmud, 48, a critical Covid-19 patient, like attendants of 13 other ICU patients there.
Three of those ICU patients, including Bulbul s brother, died after they were relocated.
Two other dead were identified as Engineer Kazi Golam Mostafa, 66, of Chandpur, and Kishore Chandra Roy, 70, of Tangail.
Some of the 14 critical patients were taken to a nearby coronary care unit (CCU) on the same floor of the 10-storey building whereas some were shifted to other wards or hospitals.
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Six workers injured as launching girder of BRT collapses near Dhaka airport
Seven-member probe body formed
Four workers sustained injuries as a launching girder of Bus Rapid Transit project collapsed near Dhaka airport today. Photo: Palash Khan Star Digital Report Star Digital Report
Six workers, including three Chinese men, sustained injuries after a part of launching girder of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project collapsed near Dhaka airport this morning.
The launching girder (special type of gantry crane used for bridge construction) collapsed around 10:35am near Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.
Confirming the incident, Shafiqul Islam, managing director of Dhaka Bus Rapid Transit Company Limited, said that the workers were on duty when the accident happened.