Sylhet

Sylhet Office : US Ambassador to Bangladesh Brent T Christensen and members of his delegation met Commerce, Industries, Textiles and Jute Minister Khandaker Abdul Muktadir at a breakfast meeting in Sylhet today (7 July), where they discussed the region’s development, investment opportunities and the contribution of Bangladeshi expatriates in the United States. The meeting, held at a hotel in the ...

Sunamganj Correspondent : A man, his wife and their son died from electrocution in Sunamganj’s Bishwambarpur upazila on Monday afternoon, July 6. The deceased were identified as Nurul Amin, 65, his wife Fatema Akter, 50, and their son Farhad Shah, 30, residents of Anantapur village in the upazila. Police and locals said Nurul Amin and his son, Farhad, inadvertently came ...

Three school students were killed after a motorbike lost control and hit a roadside tree at Gowainghat upazila of Sylhet on Sunday. The accident took place in Radhanagar-Baurvag tea estate road, east Jaflong union of Gowainghat. The dead were identified as Sakib Ahmad, 16, from Nayabasti village, Rayhan Ahmed, 16, from Chailakhel and Joy, 16, from Lakherpar village. All of ...

A group of young volunteers in Singur village under Baramchal union of Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar has repaired two key village roads through voluntary labour and community fundraising, bringing relief to thousands of residents. The two roads, each about half a kilometre long, connect Singur village to the Kulaura-Bhatera paved road. Bricks were laid about 12 years ago under a ...

Biman Bangladesh Airlines on Sunday resumed its direct Dhaka-Sylhet-Manchester service after a four-month suspension, restoring a key air link for thousands of Bangladeshi expatriates, particularly the Sylheti community living in northern England. The inaugural resumed flight, BG-208, landed at Osmani International Airport from Manchester at 12:04PM. Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Afroza Khanam Rita and Prime Minister’s Adviser on Foreign ...

Commerce, Industries, Textiles and Jute Minister Khandakar Abdul Muktadir, MP, today said the government will introduce Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to monitor the country’s market situation and help maintain price stability. Speaking as the chief guest at a distribution programme of government assistance, award and materials at the Sylhet Sadar Upazila Auditorium this afternoon, the minister said the initiative would ...

Two construction workers, including a woman, died after being electrocuted while working near an excavator in Daripoton of Golapganj upazila in Sylhet district on Friday. The deceased were identified as Jharna Begum, 40, of Netrakona district, and Abdur Rahman, 45, of Sunamganj district. Ariful Islam, officer-in-charge of Golapganj Police Station, said that the excavator, which was being used for earth ...

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) foiled an attempt by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) to push 10 people into Bangladesh through Kochurgul bordering area in Juri upazila of Moulvibazar district. The incident took place early Thursday at Kochurgul bordering area, BGB officials aid. BGB sources said that BSF attempted to push the group across the border into Bangladesh early in the ...

Companiganj Correspondent : The police have recovered the body of missing tourist Subrata Saha Bikash (33) from Dhalai river in Saada Pathar. On Friday (July 3), a local boatman saw the body floating near the Bholaganj ropeway bunker and informed the police. Later, the police came and recovered the body. Earlier, on Thursday, at around 2:30 pm, he went to ...

A Sylhet court on Wednesday sentenced two youths to death for raping a 14-year-old girl in 2012. Judge Begum Rubaiya Yeasmin of the Sylhet Children Violence Suppression Tribunal handed down the verdict. The convicts are Md Joynal, 25, son of Md Ashik Ali of Shahbazpur area under Bishwanath upazila, and Nazim Uddin, 25, son of Md. Moinuddin of Kandirgaon area ...