Sylhet

Sylhet Office : A police officer was killed in a road crash Sunday (October 29) night at around 9 pm of Osmani international Airport Road as pickup van- CNG auto-rickshaw collided. The deceased is Burhan Uddin, an assistant sub-inspector of Ambarkhana police outpost in Sylhet Metropolitan Police. Officer-in-Charge of Airport Police Station Moin Uddin Shipon confirmed the matter.

Sylhet Office : Multiple clashes between BNP men and police in various Sylhet city areas took place this morning in the midst of a nationwide hartal called by BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami. While trying to gather on the streets around 8:30am, a group of BNP activists got involved in a skirmish with police in the Zindabazar area. Police chased the picketers away and opened fire ...

Moulvibazar and Juri Correspondent : Moulvibazar District Jamaat Acting Ameer Ameer Maulana Abdur Rahman has been arrested by the police. The police arrested him from Juri city around 1.30 pm on Friday. Maulana Abdur Rahman was the accused of arrest warrant No. 9 in the case of obstructing police work done at Juri police station on October 6, unlawful act ...

Komalganj (Moulvibazar) Correspondent : Police recovered the body of a man from Komalganj upazila in Moulvibazar district on Friday evening. The deceased was identified as Samir Mia, 42, son of Imtiaz Mia, a resident of Shatiji village under Shamshernagar union of the upazila. According to locals, they saw the body was fallen down behind a hospital at Mokam Bazaar area ...

Sylhet Office : Sylhet City Corporation has announced a Tk 925.4 crore budget for fiscal 2023-24. Mayor Ariful Haque Choudhury announced the budget at a press conference at the city’s Arambagh yesterday. This is Ariful’s last budget as he did not participate in the recent city polls and the newly-elected mayor will take over next month. In the budget, SCC ...

Habiganj Correspondent : A Habiganj court on Thursday sentenced five members of a family including husband to death for killing a pregnant housewife over dowry at Chunarughat upazila in the district in 2016. Besides, each of the accused was fined Tk 1 lakh. Habiganj District Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-2’s judge Md Zahidul Huque handed down the verdict in ...

Police arrested two alleged drug peddlers along with 16 kilograms of hemp from Shantiganj upazila in Sunamganj district on Wednesday morning. The arrested are Md Siddiqur Rahman, a resident of New Poinda village, and Anowar Hossain, 25, of Banipur village under Sunamganj Sadar upazila. Acting on a tip-off, a team of police led by Aftabuzzaman Regan and Safiul Islam sub-inspectors ...

Balaganj (Sylhet) Correspondent : Police recovered the floating body of an unidentified man from the Kushiara river at Balaganj upazila in Sylhet district on Wednesday. The identities of the deceased, aged around 25-26, could not be known immediately. Locals saw the body in the river near Balaganj Bus Station Kheyaghat and informed police around 9 am, said officer-in-charge of Balaganj ...

Derai ( Sunamganj) Correspondent : A man was reportedly killed and at least 10 others were injured in a gunfight between two groups at Derai upazila in Sunamganj district on Wednesday. The incident happened at Pukidor village under Jagdal union of the upazila in the morning. The deceased was Dulal, son of Alim Uddin, a resident of that village. According ...

A man was killed as a truck overturned into a ditch at Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar district on Tuesday afternoon. The accident took place at around 3.30pm in Krishnapur area under Bhatera union of the upazila. The deceased was identified as Suleman Mia, 40, son of late Samsul Haque, a resident of Nijampur village under Fenchuganj upazila of the district. Quoting locals, ...