Sylhet

Over 150 individuals, including leaders of the Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal and Chhatra Dal, youth and student fronts of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, have been sued on charge of staging a demonstration blocking the car of two advisers of the interim government in Sylhet on Saturday. Gowainghat police station officer-in-charge Sarker Tofayel Ahmed said that sub-inspector of the police station Obayed Ullah ...

Power connections to 25 stone crushers in Dhopagul area of Sadar upazila in Sylhet district have been severed. A taskforce committee conducted the drive on Monday, two days after the incident of blocking the motorcade of two government advisers in protest against the decision to permanently ban stone extraction leases in Sylhet’s Jaflong area. The taskforce committee, comprising police, Rab ...

A bus driver and his assistant raped a college student inside a bus belonging to ‘Maa Enterprise’ in Habiganj’s Nabiganj upazila on Sunday night. Police and Bangladesh Army personnel, however, managed to detained bus driver Md Sabbir Miah from the spot. But the helper of the bus, Liton Miah, fled the scene. Confirming the incident, Nabiganj Police Station OC Sheikh ...

A man was killed and another one injured in a head-on collision between a motorcycle and an auto-rickshaw at Gowainghat upazila in Sylhet on Sunday afternoon. The incident occurred in the Soti area of Lengura union on Gowainghat-Bangabir road under the upazila. The deceased was identified as Nazim Uddin, 25, son of late Fattah Miah of Manaura village in the ...

A man was killed in a lightning strike while trying to chase cattle away from a grassy field near his home at Kakailchao union under Azmiriganj upazila in Habiganj district on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Alamgir Mia, 40, son of Quddus Mia from Ghardai village in the upazila. According to locals, Alamgir was struck by lightning during rainfall ...

Stone and sand extraction workers surrounded the convoy of two advisers on their way back from an inspection visit to Sylhet’s Jaflong on Saturday, a video of the incident circulating on social media. The incident took place around 11:45AM when Environment Advisor Syeda Rizwana Hasan and Energy Advisor Fouzul Kabir Khan were returning after visiting the Ecologically Critical Area (ECA) ...

Environment, Forest and Climate Change Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan has said that the government will not open any more stone quarries in Sylhet. “We will no longer allow stone extraction from areas of Sylhet that possess natural beauty and aesthetic appeal. Jaflong is an Ecologically Critical Area. For those involved in stone extraction here, we have already discussed with the ...

Border Guard Bangladesh detained 13 people who were reportedly pushed in by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) through the Barlekha border in Moulvibazar on Friday. They were detained near New Pallathal border outpost (BOP). The detainees include four men, three women, and six children. Lt Col Arifjan, commanding officer of BGB Battalion-52, said that the BSF pushed the 13 ...

At least 70 people were reportedly pushed into Bangladesh by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) early Thursday through border points in Sylhet and Sunamganj districts, officials confirmed. Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) said it detained the individuals from multiple locations early Thursday after they crossed into Bangladeshi territory without documents. According to BGB sources, 53 people were pushed in through the ...

A man died after being electrocuted at Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar district on Monday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Raju Pashi, 27, son of Uma Pashi of Joichondi union under the upazila. According to locals, he was electrocuted when trying to install power cutouts in a tea garden in the upazila. Kulaura Police Station officer-in-charge (OC) Md Golam Afsar ...