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Two killed as pickup hits motorcycles in Sylhet

Two youths were killed and two others injured as a pickup van rammed two motorbikes on the Sylhet-Tamabil highway at Jaintiapur upazila in Sylhet district on Tuesday night. The accident happened around 10pm in front of Jaflong Valley Boarding School in the upazila. The deceased were identified as Shihab Uddin, 22, son of Alauddin, a resident of Mokambari area under ...

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Constable die as bus hits bike in Sylhet

A police constable died after a bus hit his motorcycle at Hilalpur in Golapganj upazila of Sylhet on Sunday morning. The deceased was Abul Hossain, 27, son of Moshahid Ali of Sheikhpara village in Zakiganj upazila. He was a constable at Bahubal Police Station in Habiganj. Masudul Amin, officer-in-charge of Golapganj Police Station , said the accident took place around ...

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Two killed as truck hits auto-rickshaw in Habiganj

Two people were killed and three others injured after a truck hit a CNG-run auto rickshaw in Habiganj’s Nabiganj upazila on Sunday. The accident took place on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in in Aushkandi area in the afternoon. Deceased Akib Mia, 60, hailed from Kishoreganj’s Mithamoin upazila, and Surchand Begum, 35, was a resident of Char Katkal village in the upazila. ...

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Seven hurt as jeep overturns at Lawachara

Seven people were injured after a tourist-carrying jeep overturned inside Lawachara National Park in Moulvibazar’s Kamalganj upazila on Saturday. The injured were Sanchita, 40, Milon Sarker, 40, Dipika Banik, 40, Mita Saha, 42, Tofael, 25, Hridita Saha, 13, and Uma Rani, 46. Abhijit Sarker, a passenger of the jeep, said the jeep overturned after its driver got down from it ...

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AL leader Ataur Rahman Shamim dies in Bailey Road fire

Advocate Ataur Rahman Shamim, vice-president of Awami League’s (AL) Kulaura Upazila of Moulvibazar and senior lawyer of Bangladesh Supreme Court, died in a fire in a multi-storied building at Bailey Road in the capital Dhaka. Confirming his death, the deceased’s nephew Tarek Hasan said that Ataur Rahman Shamim is a resident of Sreepur village in Brahmanbazar union of Kulaura upazila. ...

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Two killed in Sylhet road crash

Two people, including a woman, were killed and four more injured after a pickup van and a CNG-run autorickshaw collided head-on on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Dakshin Surma upazila of Sylhet on Thursday afternoon. The deceased were Nazma Begum, 43, wife of Sona Mia of Companiganj upazila of the district, and autorickshaw driver Mansur Ali, 27, son of Dhanai Mia ...

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Transport workers call off indefinite strike in Sylhet

Transport workers in Sylhet withdrew their indefinite strike on Wednesday afternoon, after nine and a half hours. The decision came after the transport workers’ leaders held a meeting with Sylhet’s deputy commissioner and the city mayor at the district administration’s conference hall on Wednesday afternoon. They called the indefinite strike from 6am on Wednesday to press home their five-point demand, ...

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Transport strike in Sylhet for 5-point demands

Transport workers in Sylhet have been on indefinite strike from 6am on Wednesday to press home their five-point demand, including an end to the gas crisis. The strike will be observed till further notice. No long-route transports were found to leave Sylhet. People, especially SSC candidates, are facing trouble for this sudden strike. Meanwhile, tourists from different districts got stuck ...

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Development work of Osmani Airport to complete in 2-3 years: Faruk Khan

Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Faruk Khan said on Tuesday that the development work of Osmani Airport will be completed within the next 2-3 years. “The slow pace of development work in different countries of the world is an inevitable reality. There are many international crises, including dollars, in our country. For these reasons, it is taking some time to ...

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Man stabbed dead in Moulvibazar

A CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver was allegedly stabbed to death on Sunday night in Moulvibazar’s Kamalganj upazila. The victim was Soab Ali, a resident of Munshibazar area under the upazial. In the incident, police arrested two people in Uttar Munsibazar area of the upazila around 9:30 pm. Rajnagar Police Station Officer-in-Charge (Investigation) Mirza Mazharul Anwar said the victim Soab Ali had ...

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