Dhaka, Aug. 19 -- Mobile courts of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) in separate drives fined nine building owners and private corporation Partex Group a total of Tk 4.28 lakh upon finding larvae of dengue virus-carrying Aedes mosquito in their premises in different parts of the city on Monday.

The drives were conducted in 225 buildings in Mohakhali, Nayapaltan, Segunbagicha, Topkhana, Dhanmondi, and Jatrabari areas of the city.

The two Dhaka city corporations are mainly asking for residents' cooperation in vector control - by cutting down on conditions that allow mosquitoes to breed.

Vector control is any method to limit or eradicate the mammals, birds, insects or other arthropods (here collectively called "vectors") which transmit ...