Biker killed in city road crash

Unb, Dhaka

A man was killed when his motorbike overturned on the Jatrabari-Guli, health workers have tried to visit every home in the community. There is no running water or electricity, and some of the ex-nomads still live in tents, despite the cold of winter in Kabul.
Once the workers have put drops into the mouths of infants they find, they mark their hands with a blue line, and write the date on the wall.
It seems rudimentary, but tens of thousands of volunteers in campaigns like this across the country have succeeded in almost beating the disease.
Cross-border transmission
The girl who contracted the disease, Sakina, was diagnosed after she became paralysed.
Her father is a taxi driver who often goes to the frontier region with Pakistan, and has now taken her there for treatment.
Her uncle, Mohammed Azim, said that she complains: "I can't stand up. The o