Sylhet

A child named Masum has gone missing after falling into the water while visiting the popular tourist spot Tanguar Haor in Tahirpur, Sunamganj with his parents. The incident occurred on Friday (August 15) afternoon when the child suddenly fell from a tourist boat into the haor and went missing. A rescue operation was immediately launched by a team from Tahirpur ...

In a late-night operation, joint forces recovered around 12,000 cubic feet of illegally extracted stones from the popular tourist spot ‘Shada Pathor’ (White Stone) in Sylhet. The stones were looted from the banks of the Dhalai River and transported elsewhere, but law enforcement agencies managed to retrieve and return them to the site. The operation began after midnight on Wednesday ...

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has launched an investigation into the large-scale looting of white stones in Bholaganj, under Sylhet’s Companiganj upazila. A nine-member ACC team visited the Sada Pathor area this afternoon to collect evidence and statements from locals and administration. Ashraf Uddin, assistant director at ACC’s Sylhet office, said, “We found evidence of illegal stone extraction during our spot ...

A housewife’s suspicious death occurred at Derai upazila in Sunamganj district on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Soma Akter, 21, wife of Kayes Mia of Chandipur village under Derai municipality. According to locals, family members took Soma to Derai Upazila Health Complex in serious condition when the on-duty doctors declared her dead. Soma’s in-laws are claiming that Soma committed ...

A powerful syndicate is allegedly plundering stones from Bholaganj’s Sadapathor quarry with the help of a few local influential figures and corrupt members of the police. Once a thriving tourist destination, the area has now lost much of its scenic beauty. Although the administration claims to be conducting regular mobile court drives, in reality, the looting continues unabated. Local resident ...

Bangladesh Army has arrested a youth with hemp from Derai upazila in Sunamganj district on Sunday night. The arrested is Md Wasir Mia, a resident of Matiapur village in Karimpur union of the upazila. Acting on a tip-off, a team of army officials led by Major Asif Rana conducted a drive and arrested Wasir from his residence. They also seized ...

Members of RAB-9 has arrested seven individuals, including Azmal Hossain, who had introduced himself as a “coordinator,” in connection with an extortion case on the river route in Gowainghat, Sylhet. The arrested were handed over to Gowainghat police on Sunday (August 10) afternoon. Earlier, the arrests were made around 3:00 AM during a raid in Shayestaganj, Habiganj, based on a ...

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered the body of a BGB member from a river at Gowainghat upazila in Sylhet district on Sunday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Masum Billah, a member of the BGB-48 battalion. According to BGB, Masum drowned in the river while a BGB boat tried to stop and collided with an Indian boat carrying smuggled goods ...

A Jubo Dal activist was stabbed to death around midnight on Saturday in the Golapganj municipality area of Sylhet. The deceased was Rony Hossain, 26, killed reportedly an hour after he made a Facebook post about a former Chhatra Dal leader’s alleged extramarital affair. The former Chhatra Dal leader in question is Sheikh Raju, 35, former organizing secretary of the ...

Two individuals were arrested with huge quantities of Indian smuggled goods from Beanibazar upazila of Sylhet district on Saturday morning. The arrested are Zahed Ahmed, 24 and Hasan Imran, 20; both are residents of Satpari village in Kanaighat upazila of the district. Acting on a tip-off, police searched a stone-laden truck on the Kaskatkha-Lalpur Bridge in the area and arrested ...