Sylhet

The entire Habiganj district has been left without electricity as a fire broke out at the 33/11 kV switching station of Shahjibazar Power Plant on Thursday night. The fire originated from a current transformer (CT) and breaker around 7:30 pm, said Mizan, an employee of the station. The Fire Service personnel brought the fire under control minutes after the incident, ...

Sylhet Office : One worker was killed and another injured on Thursday, July 31, when a boarding bridge wheel suddenly burst during repair work at Osmani International Airport in Sylhet. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Romman, 20, a resident of Saheber Bazar in Sylhet. He succumbed to his injuries at Jalalabad Ragib-Rabeya Medical College Hospital, where both victims were ...

Police recovered the body floating body of a sand quarry worker, who went missing in the Piyain River in Jaflong under Gowainghat upazila of Sylhet two days back, on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Hare Krishna Chandra Das, 48, a resident of Khalapara village in Netrokona district. According to locals, Hare Krishna went missing on Monday morning while extracting ...

A Sylhet court has sentenced eight individuals to death, seven to life imprisonment, and 17 others to two years of rigorous imprisonment in connection with the 2021 murder of a schoolboy in Bishwanath upazila. The verdict was delivered on Wednesday by Judge Syeda Amina Farhin of Sylhet’s Additional District and Sessions Judge Court (3rd Court), who was serving as the ...

The construction of a memorial monument to commemorate the martyrs of the July uprising has begun in the district. The monument is being constructed on the premises of Nazrul Auditorium in Rikabi Bazar of the city. The Public Works Department is constructing the monument. Abu Zafar, Executive Engineer of the Public Works Department, Sylhet, said that the 6-foot diameter foundation ...

Once left untouched for years, over 4,200 hectares of fallow land in Moulvibazar have been brought under cultivation in just five years — marking a quiet revolution in the district’s agricultural sector. Barren fields are now rich with crops, offering fresh hope and prosperity to local farmers and the market alike. Abdul Ahad, a farmer in the Joychandi area of ...

A man was killed in a clash over a land dispute at Chunarughat upazila in Habiganj district on Monday. The deceased was identified as Alauddin, 45, son of Harun Mia of Kashtila village under Mirashi union in the upazila. He was a farmer by profession. According to locals, two groups of people clashed over a previous land dispute at around ...

A court in Sunamganj has ordered police to seize houseboats operating in the Tanguar Haor area of Sunamganj district, citing their role in causing significant environmental degradation. The order was issued on Sunday by Mohammad Alamgir, Senior Judicial Magistrate of Sunamganj and cognizance magistrate of Tahirpur, under Section 190(1) of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898. The directive follows multiple media ...

The body of a tourist who went missing after drowning in the Piyain River in Jaflong was recovered on Sunday morning, three days after he went missing. The deceased was identified as Mukit Ahmed, son of Shamsuddin Mia of Raynagar area in Shantiganj upazila of Sunamganj. His family had been living in a rented house in Sylhet city’s Machimpur area. ...

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is witnessing renewed organizational energy in Sunamganj-1 (comprising Dharmapasha, Jamalganj, Tahirpur, and Moddhanagar upazilas) as grassroots restructuring intensifies under new leadership. At the heart of this resurgence is Kamaruzzaman Kamrul, a member of the BNP’s district convening committee, former district organizing secretary, and ex-upazila chairman. Popular among youth and seen as a frontrunner for party ...