Sylhet

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB-55) seized a large consignment of smuggled Indian goods worth around Tk 1.5 crore from Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj district early Tuesday. Acting on a tip-off, a team of BGB officials conducted a drive at around 2 AM in the Sat Chhari–Teliyapara area on the Dhaka–Sylhet highway in the upazila and stopped a suspicious sand-laden truck while ...

A task force on Sunday seized 20,000 cubic feet of illegally extracted sand and destroyed 50 boats used for sand extraction at Jaintapur upazila in Sylhet. The taskforce conducted the drive in Rangpani River at Banglabazar area at about 11:00 am, the upazila administration said. Jaintapur upazila nirbahi officer, Mohammad Golam Mostafa, led the taskforce comprising members of the police ...

BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman will start election campaign by visiting the Shrine of Hazrat Shah Jalal (R) and Shahporan (RA) in Sylhet on January 22. BNP Media Cell Convener Prof Dr Moudud Hossain Alamgir Pavel said he will begin election campaign by paying homage at the shrines of Hazrat Shah Jalal (RA) and Shahporan (RA). Earlier in a meeting with ...

Joint forces today arrested five people and recovered a large batch of illegal arms, ammunition and equipment used for criminal activities during a drive in Osmaninagar upazila of Sylhet. The arrested persons were identified as Gias Uddin, son of late Yusuf Ullah of Chiladia village in Jagannathpur upazila, Md Habu Mia, son of late Geda Mia of Rifatpur village under ...

Anxious days are returning for farmers in the haor areas of Sunamganj as work on crop protection dams remains sluggish, even three weeks after the official deadline for starting construction passed. Although construction has begun in some haors, the overall pace has been slow, fuelling frustration among farmers who depend on the timely completion of embankments to protect their Boro ...

A schoolgirl, who went missing in Sylhet on Sunday, was rescued from Sreemangal upazila in Moulvibazar on Tuesday night and two teenagers were arrested for their involvement in this incident. The arrested, Al Amin Hasan, 18, and Mahi Ahmed Nayan, 18, are residents of Moulvibazar town, police said. Sylhet Metropolitan Police additional deputy commissioner Mohammad Saiful Islam told that a ...

The Election Inquiry and Judicial Committee has served a show-cause notice on BNP-nominated candidate of Habiganj-1 constituency, Reza Kibria, for allegedly violating the electoral code of conduct. The notice was issued today by committee chairman and Civil Judge Md Saidur Rahman following complaints that Reza engaged in campaigning before the official allocation of electoral symbols. According to the complaints, Reza, ...

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB-55) seized 14 kg of hemp from the border area of Chunarughat upazila in Habiganj district on Monday evening. Indian ganja worth about Tk 49,000 during an operation in a border area of. Acting on a tip-off, a special patrol team from Satchhari BOP took position around 300 yards inside Bangladeshi territory at Satchhari Tea Garden on ...

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB-46) seized a large quantity of smuggled Indian leaf cigarettes worth Tk 2.7 lakh from Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar district early Tuesday. Acting on a tip-off, a team of BGB officials conducted a drive in the Lalarchak area adjacent to the border and recovered a large unclaimed consignment, totalling 5400 packs of cigarettes worth Tk 2.7 lakh ...

The members of the Rapid Action Battalion recovered 11 airguns from a bush of a tea garden under Shrimangal upazila in Moulvibazar on Sunday night. RAB-9 media officer KM Shahidul Islam Sohag said that a team of the battalion, acting on secret information, conducted a drive at Satgaon of Satgaon Tea Garden under the upazila at around 8:00pm on Sunday. ...