Sylhet

In response to the current fuel crisis, Sylhet’s fuel traders will go on an indefinite strike starting next Wednesday. The Sylhet divisional committee of Bangladesh Petroleum Dealers, Distributors, Agents, and Owners Association has announced the indefinite strike after an emergency meeting on Saturday. According to the organization’s decision, traders will cease purchasing from the depot beginning next Wednesday (January 18) ...

Moulvibazar Correspondent : Alauddin (60), who was booked under section 54 for fighting in Baralekha Senior Judicial Magistrate Court of Moulvibazar, died in Moulvibazar Jail. When he suddenly fell ill around 11:30 on Thursday, the jail authorities sent him to Moulvibazar 250-bed hospital. The doctor on duty there declared him dead. The deceased Alauddin is the son of Ajmal Ali ...

The United Kingdom has announced an additional £500,000 (Tk 60.6 million) in humanitarian support in response to last year’s flood in the Sylhet region, in which 7.2 million people were affected. Delivered by BRAC, this funding will provide water, shelter, livelihood opportunities, and improved nutrition for people affected in Sunamganj, Sylhet. UK Development Director in Bangladesh, Matt Cannell, said last ...

A woman was held with 290 pieces of Yaba tablets from Rajnagar upazila of Moulvibazar district on Monday. The arrestee was identified as Kulsum Begam, 40. Offier-in-charge of Rajnagar police station Binoy Bhusan Roy said on information a police team, led by Sub-Inspector (SI) Sulaiman Ahmed, conducted a raid at a house of one Tonjab Ali at Poitura village of ...

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Sunday said Bangladesh is a democratic country and urged those, who have confusion about the next national election, to read Bangladesh’s history. “Awami League has always formed government through election. We will surely welcome international observers. We have nothing to hide,” he told reporters after the inauguration of the e-gates at Sylhet Airport, ...

Law enforcers surrounding a house at Jagannathpur in Sunamganj district have found huge quantity of explosive making equipment. Special teams of the Bangladesh Army and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) carried out a drive into the house on Sunday morning. It is learnt that one Afzal, son of Akhlakur Rahman, of village Digholbak Atghar under Jagannathpur upazila fled witnessing a police ...

Five persons, including two children, were killed and three others injured in a road accident at Madhabpur upazila in Habiganj district early Saturday. The deceased were Abdus Salam, 32, Sadia, 21, Habiba, 2, Sihab, 13, and microbus driver Sadir Ali. They were the residents of Madanagar village under Kulaura upazila of Moulvibajar district. The injured were Raju, 29, his father ...

The hanging body of a schoolgirl was recovered by police at Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar district on Saturday morning. The dead was Ruma Munda, 16, daughter of Kalichandra Munda, a resident of Jalai village under Jaichandi union. Police said family members spotted the girl hanging in her room in the morning. Later, she was rescued and rushed to hospital where ...

SAU Correspondent : At least 10 people were injured in a clash between two factions of the Sylhet Agricultural University (SAU) unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) on Friday. The clash broke out on the campus around 2.45pm. According to police, SAU Chhatra League president Ashikur Rahman and general secretary Md. Emdadul Hossain convened a meeting on the campus on ...

Over the past few days, a local influential group in Shamshernagar union of Moulvibazar’s Kamalganj upazila has illegally felled around 105 trees of various species on government land. Locals said this incident cost the government lakhs of taka in revenue. They also said tree felling has been going on for the past two days. Trees were cut down by unscrupulous ...