Sylhet

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 ...

The hanging body of an Oman expatriate has been recovered from Shantiganj upazila of Sunamganj district on Thursday. Deceased Najar Uddin, 55, was a resident of Parbatipur village in the upazila. Helena Begum wife of the deceased said her husband went out from the house at about 4.00am on Thursday. She started searching her husband later as he did not ...

Another 50 homeless families were provided houses at Shantiganj upazila in Sunamganj district on Wednesday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formally inaugurated the handover of 50 houses to landless and homeless families in the 4th phase of the upazila through a video conference from Ganobhaban at 10 am. At that time, UNO Anwar Uz Zaman, upazila vice chairman Lecturer Noor Hossain, ...

The body of fisherman was recovered on Tuesday two days after he went missing after being struck in a lightning strike at Shantiganj upazila in Sunamganj district. The deceased was Motalib Hossain, 24, son of Nasir Mia, a resident of Paikapan village under Dargapasha union of the upazila. Local people spotted the body in the Mahasingh river near Lalpur-Mougao area ...

Police on Monday detained two people for allegedly burning the holy Quran in Sylhet. One of the detainees is Nurur Rahman, the chairman of Dhanupara Ideal College. The identity of the other detainee could not be known. In this regard, Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP) Commissioner Md Elias Sharif said a case is being filed against the two detainees for burning ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah:   Sylhet City Corporation’s newly elected Mayor, Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury, said he would develop short-term and long-term goals for making Sylhet a greener, smarter and more developed city. He was speaking at the Bangladesh High Commission London at an interactive dialogue titled ‘A Smarter and Greener Sylhet: Agenda 2028’ on 29 July 2023 when he further requested suggestions ...

The throat-slit body of a woman was recovered from Baluchar village in Companyganj upazila of the district on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Salekha Begum, 52, wife of Abdur Rauf. They have four daughters and two sons. Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Companyganj Police Station Hillol Roy said neighbours found the door of her house open in the morning and her ...