Sylhet

Police have arrested a 20-year-old youth for allegedly sexually harassing his four-year-old cousin at a village in Habiganj Sadar upazila on Friday. The arrested was identified as Bijoy, son of Abdul Salam, a resident of Durlabhpur village under the upazila. According to police and local sources, the incident took place on the night of May 15 when Bijoy went to ...

The deaths were reported around 2:00 pm on Friday in Rahur Khal of Shikarkhan village in Fatehpur Union, said Jaintapur Police chief Mohammad Mahbubur Rahman Molla. One of the victims is known only as Rafa, 6, daughter of Kabir Ahmed. The other was identified only as son Munna, 7, son of Saleh Ahmed’s. They were cousins. The two were following ...

Sylhet Office : A member of the Rapid Action Battalion was stabbed to death while attempting to help police apprehend a suspected mugger in Sylhet city on Friday, May 22. The deceased was identified as Emon Acharya, a member of RAB-9. The incident took place in the Topkhana area of the city when a police team from Kotwali Police Station ...

A one year and eight months old girl was found dead with her throat slit in Sylhet early today (22 May), with police detaining the child’s mother in connection with the killing. The victim, Maimuna Jannat Toha, was the daughter of Amir Ali and Subina Begum from Puratan Kalaruka village under the jurisdiction of Jalalabad Police Station in Sylhet. Quoting ...

Five children have died within a single day in Sylhet while undergoing treatment for measles-like symptoms. The deaths occurred over the past 24 hours in various hospitals across the Sylhet region. This is the first time as many as five children have died in a single day due to measles-related symptoms; previously, the highest number recorded in a single day ...

Two people were killed and at least 10 others injured in a head-on collision between a passenger bus and a Laguna (human hauler) on the Sunamganj-Sylhet Regional Highway on Wednesday morning. The accident occurred at approximately 11:30 am on the north bank of the Ahsanmara Bridge, near the Jagjibanpur passenger shelter in Sunamganj Sadar upazila. The deceased were identified as ...

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) returned fire after India’s Border Security Force (BSF) fired shots in the Sonarhat border area of Sylhet’s Gowainghat upazila yesterday afternoon, the BGB said. However, no casualties were reported. Lieutenant Colonel Md Nazmul Haque, commanding officer of the Sylhet Battalion (48 BGB), in a press release, said today that BSF opened fire in the Sonarhat border ...

A Sunamganj court has sentenced three individuals to life imprisonment for gang-raping a young woman in Chhatak upazila of Sunamganj district on Monday. Judge Muhammad Habibullah of Sunamganj Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal delivered the verdict. The convicts are Motiur Rahman Matin, Dildar Hossain and Billal Hossain, all residents of Chhatak upazila. According to the case details, on August ...

Hawkers in Sylhet staged a sit-in, blocking the busy road in front of Sylhet Nagar Bhaban on Sunday to demand an immediate end to harassment against them and approval to sit on the city streets with their businesses. Hundreds of street vendors arrived in small processions from across the city chanting slogans in favour of their demands, and began the ...

A grandmother was stabbed to death after she tried to stop a group of armed assailants from forcibly abducting her 14-year-old granddaughter around 3am on Friday in Sylhet’s Goainghat upazila. The incident took place around 3am on Friday in the Birmongol Haor village under Rustampur union. Police recovered the body from the scene at around 10am the following morning. According ...