Sylhet

Interns at Sylhet Osmani Medical College and Hospital went on work abstention on Saturday morning protesting the attack on a female intern allegedly by the relatives of a patient early Saturday. Hospital sources said an altercation ensued between some interns and relatives of a patient over treatment at No 6 ward of the hospital around 1 am.. At one stage, ...

Sylhet Osmani Medical College and Hospital’s interns went on work abstention protesting the attack on a female intern allegedly by the relatives of a patient. According to hospital sources, an altercation ensued between some interns and relatives of a patient over treatment at No 6 ward of the hospital around 1AM on Saturday. At one stage, a relative of a ...

A head-on collision between two buses in Sylhet’s Osmaninagar upazila killed two people and injured at least 10 others early Saturday. The accident occurred around 7:00am on the Dhaka–Sylhet Highway in the Osmaninagar area, police said. Police said a Dhaka-bound Ena Paribahan bus and a Unique Paribahan vehicle collided head-on with a Shyamoli Paribahan bus travelling from Gaibandha to Sylhet. ...

Health and Family Welfare Adviser Nurjahan Begum on Friday said that campaigning in favor of a ‘Yes’ vote in the upcoming referendum is a collective obligation for the state. She made the remarks while answering journalists’ questions after a discussion with district- and divisional-level health officials in Sylhet on the referendum. “Citizens do not need to understand the constitution or ...

The Election Commission (EC) has granted permission to hold the Shahjalal University Central Students’ Union (SUCSU) and hall union elections on the scheduled date of 20 January, provided the code of conduct is followed. The approval came through a letter signed by Deputy Secretary Mohammad Monir Hossain of the EC’s Election Management–2 branch on Thursday. The decision follows a request ...

BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman will launch his election campaign from Sylhet through offering prayers at the mazars of Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) and Hazrat Shah Paran (RA) on January 22. Much enthusiasm has been prevailing among party leaders and activists since the announcement of his visit. To ensure the success of the visit, the Sylhet District and Metropolitan unit of BNP ...

Bank Asia PLC, in association with Bangladesh Bank, has organized a month-long ‘Entrepreneurship Development Program’ for SME entrepreneurs in Sylhet. The program was inaugurated on 12 January 2026 by the Chief Guest Mr. Khaled Ahmed, Executive Director, Bangladesh Bank (Sylhet Office). Mr. Md. Nazrul Islam, Additional Director, Bangladesh Bank and Program Director of SICIP and Mr. Mohammad Saifuddowla, Head of ...

Farmers in Sylhet said most of them are not happy with the price they have been getting for their transplanted Aman (T-Aman), or commonly called Aman, paddy as they recently completed harvesting with good yields. Sylhet trader Abdul Bari on Sunday said the trade of Aman paddy has been ongoing in the local markets and it got momentum this week. ...

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 ...