Sylhet

Jalalabad Gas Authority is going to start installation of pre-paid gas meters for residential customers connected to Sylhet City Corporation and adjacent areas with the aim of preventing wastage of gas, ensuring efficient and sustainable use. Gas wastage will be reduced after installation of prepaid meter. 30-40 percent gas will be saved. In addition, customers will have to pay less ...

Sylhet is like a treasure house. Three domestic and foreign energy oil and gas exploration and surveying organizations are looking at the strong possibility of getting three trillion cubic feet (TCF) of gas underground in this region. The organizations have already started vigorous survey work in Sylhet region. The survey results will be handed over to Sylhet Gasfield Limited (SGFCL) ...

Two motorcyclists lost their lives in a collision between a police pickup and a speeding truck in Sylhet. Another passenger and a police pickup driver were injured in the accident. The incident took place on Wednesday (April 05) around 10 pm at Mitrimhal area under Goainghat police station on the Sylhet-Kompaniganj road. The deceased are motorcycle rider Pulak Roy (30), ...

A Sylhet tribunal on Wednesday acquitted all three accused in a case filed over a grenade attack during an anti-militant ride at Atia Mahal in Sylhet’s Dakshin Surma upazila. The three are Jahurul Haque alias Jasim, his wife, Argina alias Razia, and Md Hasan. Judge Muhammad Nurul Amin Biplob of the Anti-terrorism Special Tribunal handed down the verdict. Muminur Rahman, ...

A court in Sylhet on Wednesday sentenced a man to death for killing his wife over dowry in 2017. Judge Mohammad Shahadat Hosen of Sylhet Speedy Trial Tribunal passed the verdict. The court also fined the convict Tk 20,000. The convict is Monir Ali son of Late Wasid Ali of Additapur village of South Surma. According to the prosecution document, ...

Police in a drive arrested a man along with 192 Yaba pills from Sadar upazila of Moulvibazar district on Tuesday evening. The arrested is Golam Sarwar, 31, a resident of Naria village under the upazila. Moulvibazar Sadar Police Station officer-in-charge Mohammad Harunur Rashid Chowdhury said acting on a tip-off, a team of the police conducted a raid in the area ...

A young man was killed after being run over by a tractor at Companiganj upazila in Sylhet district on Monday night. The accident took place on Phurarpar-Murargaon road of the upazila at around 11 pm. Deceased Ashique Ali, 22, was son of Attar Ali, a resident of Murargaon village in the upazila. According to locals, the tractor veered out of ...

It has been raining in Sylhet since the beginning of Chaitra. A storm blows every night. The Meteorological Department has said that rain will continue throughout this month. There may even be floods towards the end of the month. Last year there was a terrible flood in Sylhet. Sylhet is affected by floods 3 times in a year. This time ...

Elections will be held in Sylhet and Rajshahi City Corporation on June 21. Also on May 25 in Gazipur, Khulna and Barisal City Corporation on June 12. This decision was taken at the 17th commission meeting held at the election building in Agargaon on Monday. After the meeting, commission secretary Mo Jahangir Alam announced the detailed schedule. Before that, the ...

Sylhet’s Kadmatoli Modern Central Bus Terminal was built at a cost of about 65 crores on the model of Sylhet’s traditional Assam style houses and Chandnighat clocks. Dhali Construction, a well-known contractor of the country, got the construction of this modern bus terminal funded by the World Bank. After construction, the bus terminal is now awaiting inauguration by the Prime ...