Sylhet

The government has completed all the preparations for the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha sacrifice with native cows. This year there are about 2 lakh 12 thousand sacrificial animals in Sylhet division. There are 1 crore 25 lakh sacrificial animals across the country, which is 375 thousand more than last year. The Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock is in a strict position to ...

People’s lives disrupted by the intense heat. There is still no rain and hail. Prolonged drought everywhere. There is a cry for rain all around. In this situation, Istiska prayers and special prayers have been organized for rain in Moulvibazar. Today Thursday (June 8) in the morning of Maulvibazar town, the religious scholars and religious Muslims performed this prayer in ...

Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST ) ex-students meeting ‘Sustaien Re-Union 2023’ was held in Germany. On June 3 and 4, this reunion was held for the third time on the soil of Germany under the initiative of Sustaien-DE. According to the organizers, more than 150 former Sustaien living in different parts of Germany and their families participated in ...

Thirteen workers were killed and several injured after a truck collided head-on with a pickup van in Sylhet’s South Surma upazila early Wednesday. The accident happened at Nazirbazar area around 5:39am. Nine of the deceased were identified as Haris Miah, 50, Shaurav, 25, Shadhu Miah, 30, Shahed Nur, 45, Sagar, 20, Wahd Ali, 30, Rashid Miah, 40, Dulal Miah, 45; ...

A total of 87 women candidates are contesting in the Sylhet City Corporation elections, one in the general ward and one in the reserved ward (women councillor). Among these 87 women councilor candidates for 14 reserved wards who will be elected through EVMs in Sylhet City Corporation elections to be held on June 21. Advocate Roksana Begum Shahnaz is the ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has expelled its 43 candidates for Sylhet City Corporation elections including mayor for life. BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi issued a notice in this regard on Monday night (5 June). Sylhet BNP general secretary Emdad Hossain Chowdhury said the 43 leaders were expelled for ignoring the party decision. Meanwhile, Sylhet city running mayor Ariful ...

Jatiya Party Vice Chairman and former Member of Parliament for Sylhet-2 Yahya Chowdhury Ehia has been dismissed from the party post. Jatiya Party Central Office Secretary MA Razzak Khan confirmed the matter on Monday (June 5). He said that he was accused of breaking party discipline earlier. As his reply was not satisfactory, he was relieved from the post of ...

The World Environment Day-2023 was observed at Dharmapasha upazila in Sunamganj district on Monday morning. This year’s theme of the day is ‘Solutions to Plastic Pollution’. Dharmapasha upazila administration organized a discussion at the upazila parishad hall room on the occasion of the day. The upazila nirbahi officer Shithesh Chandra Sarkar presided over the discussion conducted by upazila assistant commissioner ...

Three people have been killed after a CNG-run autorickshaw carrying them being rammed by a bus at Shayestaganj upazila in Habiganj district. The accident happened at about 6am on Sunday. The deceased were identified as the autorickshaw driver Rafiq Miah, 35, of Chunarghat upazila; Ziaul Haque, 36, son of Azir Hussain of Baniachang upazila; and Musa Miah, 64, son of ...

An army man was killed after a steel pipe fell on his head from an under-construction building of Sylhet City Corporation this afternoon. The deceased, Lance Corporal Delowar Hossain, was shopping at the City Super Market, adjacent to the building, said Sudip Das, additional deputy commissioner (media) of Sylhet Metropolitan Police. According to sources of the city corporation, Delowar was ...