Sylhet

At least five students were injured in a clash between two factions of the anti-discrimination student movement in Sunamganj town on Thursday afternoon. The incident occurs as a group of students, who were reportedly deprived in the new committee, equipped with local weapons attacked a meeting organised for newly formed committee at the District Shilpakala Academy complex around 2PM. Both ...

A school boy was killed and three others injured after being run over by a truck in Sylhet city on Wednesday night. The accident took place at around 10 pm on the Sylhet-Airport road near Malnichhara tea garden. The dead Tanjim, 16, son of Rajan Mia, a resident of Dakshin Surma Kuchai area in Sylhet, was an SSC candidate from ...

An elderly man succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in Dhaka following a clash between two groups over a minor incident at Dharampasha upazila in Sunamganj district. The victim, Mohammad Ali, 65, from Shorishyam village in the upazila, passed away on Monday night at Dhaka Medical College Hospital. According to police and local sources, around noon of October 28, ...

A stray monkey has been rescued on Tuesday from Ramnagar Manipuri Para in Sreemangal, Moulvibazar. The forest department officials rescued the monkey from the house of Shimul Tarafdar, resident of the area. Later the animal was taken to the Lawachara rescue center. Shimul Tarafdar said that the monkey has been roaming around the area for about two to three months, ...

A newborn child was found abandoned at a graveyard under Fenchuganj in Sylhet on Monday. Fenchuganj upazila health officer Rashedul Haque told that a group of people of the Nijghilachhara village in the upazila gathered around the graveyard of the village in the morning after hearing the cry of a newborn baby. ‘But, none of the villagers approached the baby ...

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has seized illegal Indian goods worth over Tk 50 lakh from Tahirpur and Bishwambharpur border areas in Sunamganj district. The operation details were confirmed on Monday by Lieutenant Colonel AKM Zakaria Kadir, commander of BGB Battalion-28. According to BGB reports, the seized goods were confiscated from various locations, including the Lau’r Garh, Chinakandi, Chanpur, and Charagaon ...

A court in Sylhet has granted a five-day remand for four suspects in connection with the brutal murder of six-year-old Muntaha Akhtar Zerin in Sylhet’s Kanaighat upazila. The decision was made by Sylhet Senior Judicial Magistrate Court-4 Judge Kazi Md. Abu Zaher Badol at around 3 PM on Monday. Earlier, the suspects were presented in court at 1:30 PM, where ...

Police have detained six individuals for questioning in relation to the murder of six-year-old Muntaha Akter Zerin from Kanaighat upazila of Sylhet district on Sunday. Additional Superintendent of Police in Sylhet Rafiq Islam confirmed the detention on Sunday afternoon. The detained are Islam Uddin, Nizam Uddin, Nazma Begum, former tutor of the victim, Shamima Begum alias Marzia, and her mother ...

Police have recovered the body of six-year-old Muntaha, who went missing near her house on November 3, from a pond in Sylhet’s Kanaighat upazila. Muntaha Aktar Jerin was daughter of Shamim Ahmed, resident of Bharafoud village under Birdal union. Kanaighat Police Station’s OC Md Abdul Awal confirmed that the body was retrieved from the pond near her house around 4AM ...

Police arrested three people including a union parishad chairman from Joychandi  union area under Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar district on Saturday night. The arrested men are Abdur Rab Mahbub, chairman of Joychandi union; Awami League leaders Delawer Hossain Lebu and Lokman Miah. Police conducted a raid in the union and arrested them, said Md Golam Afsar, officer-in-charge of  Kulaura Police ...