Sylhet

An woman and her daughter drowned after falling into a canal while begging at Madhyanagar upazila in Sunamganj district on Friday. The incident occurred around11 AM when locals discovered two bodies floating in the canal at Galaikhali village in the upazila. The deceased were identified as Bilkis Akter, 28, a visually impaired woman abandoned by her husband and her two-year-old ...

A child died after drowning in a pond at Kamolganj upazila in Moulvibazar district on Friday. The deceased was identified as Yusuf, 7, son of Azizur Rahman of Panishala village under Kamolganj municipality. According to locals, Yusuf fell into the pond back to their house when everyone in their house went for Jummah prayer. After some time, family started searching ...

A young motorcyclist was killed after his bike crashed into the rear of a truck in Sylhet’s Jaintapur Upazila on Thursday evening. The accident occurred around 7:30 PM on the Sylhet-Tamabil regional highway in Dema area of Darbast union. The dead Fahim, 19, son of expatriate Badrul Islam, was a resident of Dema village. According to eyewitnesses, the motorcycle was ...

A man was hacked to death allegedly by his elder brother over a longstanding land dispute in Sunamganj’s Bishwambarpur upazila. The victim Mojibur Rahman, 60, was attacked while offering prayer at a mosque on Wednesday night (July 16) at Chargaon village. Police have arrested the accused, Lutfor Rahman, in a special operation. Both the victim and the accused are sons ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Sunamganj unit has suspended a leader of Madhyanagar upazila unit BNP and served him a show-cause notice over his alleged involvement in seizing a houseboat forcibly. The suspended leader Mominul Haque Benu, was a joint convener of Madhyanagar upazila unit BNP. In a letter issued on Tuesday, signed by district BNP convener Kalim Uddin Ahmed Milon ...

A man has been accused of pouring petrol onto the body of his nine-month pregnant wife and lighting her on fire over a “domestic row” in Sylhet’s Kanaighat Upazila. The baby was stillborn while the housewife received treatment at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital on Sunday. The husband was detained from Choripara village in the Upazila’s Satbank Union on ...

After a suspension of over two months, arrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines resumed its direct flights on the Sylhet-Manchester route. Biman’s BG-788 flight departed from Sylhet Osmani International Airport for Manchester at 12:50 pm on Monday with 193 passengers on board, said Biman station manager Shakil Ahmed. The resumption has brought relief among UK-bound expatriates many of whom had feared the ...

A youth was allegedly stabbed to death in Sylhet city on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Dinar Ahmed Rumon, 22, son of Taklis Ahmed of Dakshin Surma upazila of the district. Rumon was a staff of a tea shop. According to locals, a man entered the hotel and asked tea. The man engaged into a heated argument with ...

About 4,000 people, including a leader of Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal, were sued on Friday over the death of an ambulance driver on July 7 during a clash between inhabitants of two villages under Nabiganj upazila in Habiganj. Nabiganj police station officer-in-charge Sheikh Md Kamruzzaman said on Saturday that Salma Khatun, wife of deceased Faruk Miah of Purba Timirpur village of ...

A Bangladeshi national named Shafiqul Islam, 45, has been shot dead by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) at the Doarabazar border in Sunamganj. The BSF opened fire, targeting alleged cattle smugglers. Shafiqul hailed from Bhanga Para village under Laxmipur union of the upazila. The incident took place at around 1am on Saturday. Lieutenant Colonel Zakaria Kadir, commanding officer of Sunamganj ...