Sylhet

Awami League backed candidate Gulshanara Mily became the elected Chairman of the newly formed Juri Upazila in the peaceful and fair poll held Sunday. Mily defeated his nearest candidate Bodrul Hussain by a margin of 10,692 votes. Mily secured 22455 votes while Bodrul secured 11763 votes. According to official sources, about 86 percent votes were cast in the election held ...

Sylhet police administration is going to take stern action against smoking and the tactful adverts of tobacco company It was told at an workshop organized by sylhet District Police on Tuesday. Clarifying their Stances in this regard kamrul Ahsan, police commissioner of SMP and Md. Mijanur Rahman D I G of Sylhet, Said , We will maintain zero tolerance adont ...

Speakers at a post-rally discussion here on Sunday called upon the young generations, including students, for launching social movement in changing social mindset for building a corruption-free Bangladesh. District Corruption Prevention Committee (DCPC) arranged the Scholers Home in observance of the Corruption Prevention Week- 2015 from March 26 to April 1 with the theme ‘Unitedly We Vow to Hate the ...

Management of the schools have decided to resume full-scale academic activities from Monday after the BNP excluded Sylhet from the purview of their shutdowns. School academic year begins in January but the institutions in Sylhet could not run normally due to the 20-Party Alliance’s indefinite nationwide transport blockade since Jan 5 and several rounds of shutdowns along with it. The ...

Traffic snarls have returned to Sylhet streets with the BNP calling off its two-month-long weekday shutdowns.The traffic congestion was steadily building up over the past few days and peaked on Wednesday. Roads in Bandarbazar, Zindabazar, Mirabzar, Amborkhana, Shibgonj, Subhanighat and Upashohor seemed overly crowded since morning.The traffic situation got worse as the day progressed.The BNP-led alliance had been enforcing a ...

The Sylhet Education Board (SEB) has added 2 new HSC examination centers this year in a bid to smoothly hold the exams. With these additions, a total of 75 centers under the Sylhet board are now ready for holding the HSC examinations scheduled to begin on April 1. Controler of Sylhet Education Board,Abdul Mannan said they have set up the ...

 Life in Sylhet became normal early this month after nearly two months of violence during BNP’s indefinite blockade and general strikes but locals are still scared of making bus journeys. The Sylhet-Dhaka road connects Sylhet with several districts, but this is the road where some of the vicious petrol bomb attacks left many injured as well as killed during the ...

A man was injured when a shop was gutted in a devastating fire that broke out at the Sylhet City Corporation’s market at Laldighirpar area in the city on Sunday. The injured was identified as Parvej Ahmed, 28, a businessman of the market.Later, he was taken to the Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital soon after the incident around 12:30pm. ...

A mechanic was killed after falling from Aapon Tower at Sagardighirpar area in the city when he was fixing an Air Conditioner (AC) at the building on Sunday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Tisul Das, 26, son of Patal Das of Bhatalia area in the city. Local sources said Tisul Das slipped from the seventh floor of the tower ...

Golapgonj Police have arrested a person in possession of a firearm and two round of ammunition from Asirgonj bazar area of Sylhet district. The arrestee is Dulal Ahmed, 28, son of Oaris Ali of Bagla village in Golapgonj upazila. Golapgonj OC Fozlul Haque Shibli said: ‘Acting on a tip-off, a team conducted a drive around 5pm on Sunday and arrested ...