Sylhet

Sylhet district administration has sought deployment of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in five upazilas to maintain law and order ahead of the National Citizen Party’s (NCP) July march programmes scheduled for Thursday and Friday. Deputy Commissioner Abdullah Al Mamun sent a letter to the Ministry of Home Affairs and the BGB headquarters on Wednesday seeking the deployment. The five upazilas ...

NCP leaders filed a case against around 100 unidentified individuals on Wednesday over the attack on a party convoy in Habiganj town a day earlier. NCP leaders went to the Kamaichhara Police Outpost and filed the case online with the Habiganj Sadar Model Police Station around 8:30PM.

The Habiganj district administration has imposed Section 144 across the municipal area to prevent any untoward incidents amid rival political programmes announced by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and the National Citizen Party (NCP). The gathering of four or more people, as well as processions, rallies and public meetings has been prohibited at designated locations within the municipal area until ...

A schoolboy has been stabbed to death in Sylhet city following a dispute over a football match. Md Manjurul Alam, additional deputy commissioner (Media) of the Sylhet Metropolitan Police, said the incident occurred near the Kazirbazar Bridge on Monday evening. The deceased, Md Rifat Ahmed, 15, was a resident the Khasdabir area of the city. He was a ninth-grade student ...

Flood situation in the low-lying areas adjacent to the Kushiyara River in Sylhet district is likely to improve over the next three days, according to the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC). During the last 24 hours, water levels of the Surma-Kushiyara rivers in the north-eastern region have fallen and may continue to fall over the next three days, said ...

Kanaighat upazila Correspondent : Police recovered the hanging body of a young man from a tree in Mikirpara village of Kanaighat upazila in Sylhet on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Syed Ahmed Sharif, 22, son of late Monir of Mikirpara village under Lakshmiprasad Purba Union. According to locals, Sharif’s mother spotted him hanging from a tree near their ...

Jamaat-e-Islami Amir and Leader of the Opposition Dr Shafiqur Rahman on Saturday, July 25, accused the current government of following what he described as the path of the former Awami League administration, warning that the people would reject any attempt to establish authoritarian rule. Addressing a divisional rally in Sylhet, Dr Shafiqur alleged that the government was promoting partisan appointments ...

Tea garden workers in Sylhet blocked Sylhet-Tamabil highway and staged demonstrations this morning (25 July), demanding a daily minimum wage of Tk500. The demonstration, organised by the Tea Workers Trade Union Centre, saw a large protest rally take place at the Khadim Tea Garden around 9:30 am. During the program, workers observed a two-hour work stoppage and staged a blockade ...

A young man was arrested with 385 Yaba tablets and 16 kilograms of cannabis during a joint operation by Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-9 and Madhabpur Police in Habiganj’s Madhabpur upazila early Friday. The arrest was made at around 1:05am at a checkpoint set up at the Madhabpur bus stand on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway. The arrestee, Md Faridul Islam, 24, is ...

Sylhet Office : Commerce Minister Khandakar Abdul Muktadir on Friday said the government has no plan to increase fuel prices further, noting that despite a slight recent rise, fuel prices in the country had remained comparatively low over the past several weeks. He made the remarks while speaking to reporters after inaugurating a day-long free medical camp, family planning and ...