Sylhet

A youth was reportedly hacked to death over a trivial matter in Sylhet city on Friday night. The incident occurred around 9:00 PM in the Sagordhigi area of the city. The deceased was identified as Shawn Miah, 25, son of Selim Miah, a resident of the Bonkalapara area. It was learnt that some youths were chatting on Monipur Gali in ...

Two drug peddlers were arrested along with 150 pieces of Yaba tablets and 800 grams of hemp at Dharmapasha upazila in Sunamganj district early Friday. The arrested men are Sgah Jahan, 45, and Raza Miah, residents of Islampur village under Sukhair Razapur North union in the upazila. They were arrested from a house in the area at around 2:30am. The ...

A motorcyclist was killed and three others were injured as the motorcycle plunged into a roadside ditch at Madhobpur upazila in Habiganj on Wednesday night. The deceased was identified as Sourov Mias, 18, a resident of Kalikapur village in upazila. Sourov lost control over the steering after hitting a pedestrian and eventually plunged into a roadside ditch in Hadia area ...

A Bangladeshi citizen was detained by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) yesterday after crossing into Indian territory from Sylhet’s Panthumai border area in Gowainghat upazila. The detainee, 41-year-old Hoson Ahmed from Paschim Panthumai village, was held around 12:30pm after entering India in search of a cow that had strayed across the border, said Sarker Tofail Ahmed, officer-in-charge (OC) of Gowainghat ...

Police have recovered the bodies of two individuals, including a woman, from separate locations in Sreemangal upazila of Moulvibazar distruct on Tuesday. Among the deceased, one was identified as Abul Khayer, 30, son of Ansar Ali and a resident of Muslimbagh area. He was an auto-rickshaw driver by profession. His body was discovered in Kalighat tea garden in the upazila. ...

Sylhet Education Board has achieved a 85.38 percent pass rate in this year’s Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations, the highest in its history. This marks a significant improvement of 13.77 percentage points from last year’s 71.62 percent. A record number of students secured GPA-5 this year, with 6,698 achieving the top grade, a sharp rise from just 1,699 ...

UK BNP President and Advisor to Chairperson MA Malik has returned to the country after 19 long years. He arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Sunday (October 13) around 12:30 PM on SV-808 flight. BNP leaders and activists flocked to the airport entrance and VIP corner to welcome him. Later, Abdul Malik came down from the plane and came ...

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) detained five drug peddlers with 1,937 bottles of phensedyl from Sylhet’s Companiganj upazila early Sunday. The detainees are Imam Uddin, 35, son of late Najib Ali, son of deceased Tera Mia, 35, son of late Tara Mia, Mosaid, 40, son of late Ataul, Md Raihan Ahmed, 18, son of Md Taj Uddin, and Jahangir ...

Police recovered the body of an elderly man, who had been missing since Thursday (October 10), from a canal at Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar district on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Jori Miah, 85, a resident of West Madhobpur village under Baramchal union in the upazila. It was learnt that Jori Miah went to the local market on ...

Gowainghat (Sylhet) Correspondent : A 25-year-old tourist drowned while swimming in the Piyain River near the zero point in Sylhet Jaflong today (12 October). The deceased, Ahmed Jawad, was the son of Dr Aftab Uddin and a resident of Nahar Road in Mymensingh. His body was recovered around 2:30 pm from an area near a waterfall. Sarkar Tofail, officer-in-charge of ...