Sylhet

Sylhet Office : A written complaint has been filed with Sylhet Metropolitan Police’s Kotwali Model Police Station over the murder of an elderly couple and their domestic help in the city’s Raynagar area. Selina Sultana, daughter of the deceased couple, filed the complaint on Friday night, alleging that the three were killed at their home over a land dispute. In the ...

Habiganj Correspondent : A severe gas shortage has brought industrial production across Habiganj to a complete halt, with gas supplies to all 171 factories in the district suspended since Wednesday, August 13, leaving more than 150,000 workers idle and putting export orders worth billions of taka at risk. The factories had already been receiving severely reduced gas supplies for nearly ...

Derai Upazila Correspondent : The police have arrested Kamrul Mia, 30, for allegedly killing his son Muhaddis Mia, 7, and daughter Bala Akter, 4, in Shyamachar Madhupur Village of Derai Upazila of the district. According to locals and police, the children had been missing since last August 8. Kamrul Mia told the locals that he could not find them. However, ...

Sylhet Office : Police detained the prime suspect in connection with the murder of an elderly couple and their teen domestic help in Sylhet city’s Raynagar earlier today. The arrestee, Babul Miah, 40, painted houses for a living, said police. The victims are MA Sattar, 82, his wife Suraiya Begum, 72, and their help, Tahmina, 15. Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP) ...

Sylhet Office : An elderly couple and their 25-year-old domestic worker were found dead at their home in Sylhet city’s Raynagar area this morning (12 August), with police suspecting that they were murdered. The victims were identified as Abdus Sattar Mia, 90, his wife Suraiya Begum, 75, and their domestic worker Tahmina, 25. Police detained a suspected person, identified as ...

Load-shedding has reached an unbearable level in Sylhet, with power cuts occurring almost every hour in the city and electricity unavailable for nearly half the day in some rural areas. The frequent outages, coupled with intense heat since yesterday, have left residents frustrated. The heat and load-shedding continued today (11 August), making it difficult for people to stay at home. ...

SYLHET, Aug 10 – The Sylhet Education Board has recorded 58.33 percent pass rate this year in the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations. According to the board result statistics, a total of 89,421 students appeared in the examination this year. Of them, 51,957 students have passed the test indicating a 10.24% fall compared to the previous year. The ...

A worker of the Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) was killed and two others were injured after being electrocuted while cleaning the roof of a mosque in the city’s Chhararpar area on Sunday noon. The deceased was identified as Naim, 20, from Shekhghat Bhangatikorpara area of the city. The injured are Apu and Al-Amin, both from the same area. The incident ...

A young man was killed allegedly in an attack over a land dispute in Habiganj on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Sohag Mia, 30, from Sundarpur village of Chunarughat upazila. According to locals and police, Sohag had been involved in a longstanding dispute with his uncle Khalil Mia over land, and the dispute had also led to legal ...

The Sylhet district administration today formed a five-member committee to investigate the cause of a head-on collision between two buses that killed nine people, including women and children, in Osmaninagar upazila. The committee, headed by Additional District Magistrate Pinky Saha, has been asked to submit its report within five working days. Its other members are representatives from the highway police, ...