Sylhet

Kanaighat Correspondent : Police have detained eight Rohingyas and four suspected members of a human trafficking group while they were allegedly being taken to India through the Kanaighat border in Sylhet. They were detained around 3pm yesterday (17 August) with the help of local residents from Kuorer Mati area under Dighirpar union of Kanaighat upazila. The four suspected traffickers were ...

Police have arrested a youth in Chhatak upazila of Sunamganj, on charges of raping a 20-month-old infant. The arrestee named Morom Ali (23) He was arrested from his home in Babangaon village under Islampur Union of the upazila at around 12:15 AM on Tuesday (August 18). According to the police, “Morom Ali allegedly took the infant to a house next ...

Police have detained three student leaders including Mahdi Hasan, member of secretary of the Habiganj ditrict Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, as they were preparing for a demonstration. Sources confirmed that they were preparing to organize a rally against load shedding, rising electricity prices, gas shortages, and soaring commodity prices. The detentions took place around 5:00 PM on Monday (August 17) at ...

Sylhet Office : Donation boxes at the Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) shrine in Sylhet yielded Tk70,88,672 in cash yesterday (15 August), along with gold, silver and currencies from 19 countries, in the third public count since new boxes were installed in June. The counting began around 10:30am after three donation drums and three large boxes were unsealed. At least 30 volunteers ...

Commerce Minister Khandakar Abdul Muktadir has said it may take around two years to build the necessary infrastructure to permanently address the country’s ongoing gas crisis. “Once the infrastructure is built, the situation is expected to improve significantly within the next two years,” he said. The minister made the remarks while responding to questions from journalists after a district-level workshop ...

Sylhet Office : A written complaint has been filed with Sylhet Metropolitan Police’s Kotwali Model Police Station over the murder of an elderly couple and their domestic help in the city’s Raynagar area. Selina Sultana, daughter of the deceased couple, filed the complaint on Friday night, alleging that the three were killed at their home over a land dispute. In the ...

Habiganj Correspondent : A severe gas shortage has brought industrial production across Habiganj to a complete halt, with gas supplies to all 171 factories in the district suspended since Wednesday, August 13, leaving more than 150,000 workers idle and putting export orders worth billions of taka at risk. The factories had already been receiving severely reduced gas supplies for nearly ...

Derai Upazila Correspondent : The police have arrested Kamrul Mia, 30, for allegedly killing his son Muhaddis Mia, 7, and daughter Bala Akter, 4, in Shyamachar Madhupur Village of Derai Upazila of the district. According to locals and police, the children had been missing since last August 8. Kamrul Mia told the locals that he could not find them. However, ...

Sylhet Office : Police detained the prime suspect in connection with the murder of an elderly couple and their teen domestic help in Sylhet city’s Raynagar earlier today. The arrestee, Babul Miah, 40, painted houses for a living, said police. The victims are MA Sattar, 82, his wife Suraiya Begum, 72, and their help, Tahmina, 15. Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP) ...

Sylhet Office : An elderly couple and their 25-year-old domestic worker were found dead at their home in Sylhet city’s Raynagar area this morning (12 August), with police suspecting that they were murdered. The victims were identified as Abdus Sattar Mia, 90, his wife Suraiya Begum, 75, and their domestic worker Tahmina, 25. Police detained a suspected person, identified as ...