Sylhet

Police have arrested a local Awami league leader at Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar district early Friday. The arrested individual is ASM Kamrul Islam, General Secretary of Kulaura Upazila Awami League unit. Kamrul is also a former chairman of the upazila parishad. He was detained from his home at Alalpur in the municipality area. According to police sources, Kamrul was named ...

Teknaf Police are searching for the ringleader of a kidnapping gang named Mohammad Shafiullah in connection with the kidnapping of six bricklayers from a village in Zakiganj Upazila of Sylhet in Teknaf recently. Teknaf Model Police Station Officer-in-Charge (investigation) Himel Roy confirmed the matter to The Business Standard today (23 April). Police rescued the six bricklayers from a hill on ...

A housewife was allegedly raped at knifepoint at a tea garden in Moulvibazar’s Kamalganj upazila on Tuesday night. Police arrested one individual in connection with the incident. The incident occurred inside the Alinagar Tea Garden under Alinagar union in the upazila. The arrested is Roni Mia, 32, a local auto-rickshaw driver and a resident of Shingrauli Eidgatila under Shamshernagar union ...

The Department of Agricultural Extension has informed that 33 percent paddy harvesting in haor has already been completed. Till Sunday, 95,751 hectares of paddy have been harvested in the haors of the four districts of Sylhet division as 276,803 hectares have been cultivated in haors in this season. However, 12,065 hectares of paddy have been harvested out of 220,416 hectares ...

A human chain formed in Sunamganj town on Sunday protested the alleged baton charge by the army personnel on the students of Sunamganj Government Medical College and Hospital during a road blockade programme. Sushashoner Jonno Nagorik (Shujan), a civil society platform for good governance, staged protest at Traffic Point in the afternoon. They also condemned the incident and urged the ...

A 60-year-old man was stabbed to death allegedly by some miscreants in Habiganj’s Chunarughat upazila on Saturday. The incident took place around 1:00 PM at Dulna village of Gazipur union in the upazila. The deceased was identified as Abdul Hye, a resident of Jarulia village in the upazila. According to locals, a group of people carried out an attack on ...

At least 15 shops were completely gutted in a fire that broke out in Sutang Bazar of Shaistaganj upazila in Habiganj district on Thursday. The blaze, which erupted late Thursday night, prompted a swift response from two fire service units from Shaistaganj and Habiganj. Firefighters battled the flames for nearly two hours before finally bringing the situation under control. Ariful ...

Direct cargo flights from Sylhet’s Osmani International Airport to Europe are set to begin on April 27, targeting exports to the European Union and the United Kingdom. The service, operated by Malta-based Gallistair Infinite Aviation, will launch with a shipment to Spain’s Zaragoza. Final preparations are underway to ensure the successful rollout of the cargo operation. Air Vice Marshal M ...

Habiganj District Correspondent : Four people, including two women, were killed and five others injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a pickup van on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway in Madhabpur upazila early Friday. The accident occurred around 2am in the Bakharnagar area. All the victims were passengers of the pickup van, which was also carrying household goods. Among ...

Three people, including a young man were killed in separate lightning strikes in Habiganj on Wednesday afternoon. In Nabiganj upazila’s Dighalbak union, a youth named Shah Alam, 21, died after being struck by lightning while grazing cattle in a nearby haor around 3:15pm. He was the son of Abdul Hakim, a grocery shop owner in Bonkadirpur village. Locals rushed him ...