Sylhet

The body of a college student, who went missing after falling into the Nainda River, was recovered from Ujanigaon area in Sunamganj’s Shantiganj upazila on Wednesday. The victim Anharuzzaman, 18, was son of late Abdul Awal and a resident of the same area. He was 11th grade student of Abdul Majid College. According to local sources, Anharuzzaman slipped into the ...

Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana and Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader along with 84 individuals were made accused in case relating to firing and attack on protesters during the recent student-led movement. Sylhet District Chhatra Dal acting president Md Jahangir Alam filed the lawsuit with Sylhet Metropolitan Magistrate court on Wednesday. The case was ...

Vehicle movement on the Komolganj-Sreemangal road has been suspended due to a landslide in Moulvibazar district caused by heavy rains. The incident occured in Lawachara National Park at Komolganj upazila early Tuesday. Sahidul Islam, range officer of Lawachara, confirmed the matter. Hundreds of vehicles remained stuck on both sides of the road as a result. Earlier, around 2:00 AM, a ...

Two separate murder cases have been filed in Sylhet today (19 August) in connection with the deaths of journalist ATM Turab and Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) student Rudra Sen during the Anti-discrimination Student Movement. The cases were lodged at the Sylhet additional chief metropolitan court by Abul Hossain Mohammad Azrof Jabur, brother of Turab, and Hafizul Islam, ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)’s Sylhet district unit today formed a human-chain with a demand to trace BNP’s former organizing secretary M Ilias Ali, who along with his driver Ansar Ali, went missing from Dhaka’s Banani area on April 17, 2012. BNP’s Sylhet District Unit President Abdul Quiyum Chowdhury chaired the human-chain formed at Court Point in the city, reports BSS. ...

A case was filed yesterday against two men on charge of gang-raping a 12-year-old girl in a village in Habiganj’s Chunarughat upazila. The incident occurred on the night of August 12, according to the victim’s mother, who lodged the complaint with Chunarughat Police Station yesterday evening. The accused, Billal and Farhad, are from the same locality. Hillol Roy, Chunarughat Police ...

Two journalists of Somoy TV were attacked and beaten this afternoon, allegedly by a group of students demonstrating in Sylhet City. The injured were reporter Avijeet Banik Apu and cameraman Naushad Ahmed Chowdhury. According to Apu, students cordoned their motorcycle and started beating them with sticks as soon as they arrived at the city centre after the protest started around ...

A 19-year-old housewife committed suicide by hanging herself at Shantiganj upazila in Sunamganj district on Thursday. The incident happened at around 6:00 PM in Dhalagai village under Shimulbak union in the upazila. The deceased was identified as Salma Begum, wife of Soukat Miah, a resident of the area. Locals and police said that Salma hanged herself with a scarf in ...

A rumor of Awami League leader Shamim Osman staying at a resort in Moulvibazar’s Sreemangal upazila led a search operation at the hotel on Wednesday. Earlier, curious locals began to converge around the premises of the five-star hotel Grand Sultan Tea Resort and Golf in the afternoon as word spread that Shamim Osman might be staying there. Upon hearing the ...

A vacuum in local government service has been prevailing as most of the upazila (UZ) chairmen in Sylhet have remained in hiding since after the resignation of Sheikh Hasina as prime minister and her fleeing on August 5. Locals, especially the service seekers, have been suffering a lot due to the deadlock while many of the staff members in the ...