Sylhet

Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit again started their operation at Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar district on Tuesday morning in search of more militant hideouts in the hilly areas. Based on some information given by the arrested suspected militants, the team started the raid at Tattiuli village under Karmadha union of the upazila and its surrounding hilly areas. Counter ...

Local people of Kormodha union at Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar have caught 17 more suspected militants. Kormodha union chairman AK Azad confirmed the matter on Monday morning. Locals caught the 17 from Asgorabad CNG station around 10:30am. And, later, informed the police. They are currently staying at Kormodha Union Parishad, AK Azad said. Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit ...

Foreign Minister and Sylhet-1 Constituency MP AK Abdul Momen said that the next election will be held according to the country’s governance system. This country does not run on the advice of any foreign power. We have constituted a strong Election Commission. We have done everything necessary for fair elections. He said these things in response to the questions of ...

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive recovered a huge amount of Indian sarees and cosmetics worth Tk 4.10 crore along the border in Jaintapur upazila of Sylhet district on Friday night. However, no one was detained in this connection. BGB-19 officials confirmed the matter in a press release on Saturday. Based on secret information that a consignment ...

‘Operation Hillside’ at a suspected militant hideout in East Taktiuli of Moulvibazar in Moulvibazar’s Kulaura upazila ended after four hours on Saturday. Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police conducted the operation at a house from 6:30am-1:30am. Ten persons, including six women, were arrested from the house. Three children are also with them. “It is a ...

Members of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) are conducting a raid at a house in Moulvibazar’s Kulaura upazila. Five women and three men were detained from that house. Confirming the matter on Saturday morning, Kulaura Police Station OC Abdus Saleh said, “The swat team of the CTTC has cordoned off the house in Tatti Uli village under Kormodha union ...

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is providing wrong and misleading information to the foreigners about the country, alleged foreign minister AK Abdul Momen on Friday. The minister was speaking with newspersons after inaugurating 12 development projects in Sylhet Sadar. “Our opposition party has served them with such information that Hindu population halved in the country in the last 10-12 years ...

A murder convict has been caught red-handed by police at Golapganj in Sylhet after remaining absconding for as long as 33 years. Mashuk Mia has been caught red-handed at the age of 56 years though the murder took place when he was 16 years’ old. He was arrested by police at about 2:30am on Friday (August 11). Arrested Mashuk Mia ...

A woman was killed in a road accident on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Shaistaganj upazila of Habiganj district on Thursday night. The accident took place at around 8pm in front of the gate of Alipur RFL Company in the upazila. The deceased was identified as Halema Akhter, 24, daughter of Mustafa Miah, hailed from Gobarkhala village in Gazipur union of ...

Residents of Paikuratia and Shelborosh union parishads suffer as a steel plate of a bailey bridge over Monai river in Dharampasha upazila of Sunamganj collapsed under the heavy weight of brick-laden truck on Thursday. According to locals, the steel plate collapsed in the morning when the truck was going to Gastala bazaar. The truck was carrying excessive load than the ...