Sylhet

Sylhet City Corporation Mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury has returned home after his visit to UK. He arrived at Sylhet MAG Osmani International Airport on Sunday (April 16) at 2:30 pm. He said that BNP will not go to Sylhet city elections while talking to reporters after returning to Sylhet in the afternoon. At the same time, Arif said to evaluate ...

PDB (Power Development Board) supplies electricity to Sylhet metropolis and suburbs. And rural areas of Sylhet including rural areas are supplied with rural electricity. But there have been allegations of ‘discriminatory’ treatment towards Sylhet metropolis and suburbs in the matter of electricity distribution. Less than half of the demand is being supplied in Sylhet. As a result, city dwellers are ...

Police have arrested a couple along with one kilograms of hemp from Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar district on Saturday afternoon. The arrested are Sitaram Chatree, 60, and Komla Chatree, 40, residents of Lombatila area of Clevedon tea garden in the upazila. Kulaura Police Station officer-in-charge Md Abdus Salek said acting on a tip-off, a team of police conducted a raid ...

Bangladesh Ansar and VDP distributed Iftar items among the helpless, poor and underprivileged people in different districts of Sylhet range on the first day of Boishakh (Bengali New Year) following the instructions of its director general. Iftar items were distributed among hundreds of people in four districts including the Sylhet district commandant office of Sylhet division. Sylhet division’s deputy director ...

Ending all speculations, UK Awami League joint general secretary Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury has been appointed as the boatman in the upcoming Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) elections. It is known that Awami League’s Local Government and People’s Representative Nomination Board meeting was held at Ganabhaban, the Prime Minister’s official residence, on Saturday at 11:00 am. In this meeting, the names of Sylhet’s ...

Two people were killed and three others injured as a pick-up van rammed into a CNG-run auto rickshaw at Baniachong upazila in Habiganj district on Friday evening. The accident took place near to Shutki Bridge in the upazila at around 5.30 pm. The deceased were Majnu Miah, 40, and Noor Jahan Begum, 50, residents of Rosulpur village of Ajmirganj upazila ...

A man was allegedly hacked to death by his nephew at Baniachong upazila in Habiganj district on Friday evening. The incident took place at Khagaura village under Khagaura union in the upazila at around 7 pm. The deceased was identified as Mosharraf Hossain, 40, son of Moshahid Miah, a resident of of the village. According to locals and police, Shahin ...

The foreign minister expected harmony and non-communal Bangladesh by attending Mangal Shobhajatra in Sylhet. AK Abdul Momen. He said, the new year will be one of harmony and tolerance. Stop throwing mud and it will be a beautiful country. Regarding the upcoming elections, the minister said that the government wants a free and fair election. Here the government does not ...

Police in a drive arrested an alleged drug peddler along with 12 bottles of foreign liquor from Madhyanagar upazila in Sunamganj district on Wednesday night. The arrested is Md. Forman Kha, 26, a resident of Karthikpur village in the upazila. Madhyanagar Police Station officer-in-charge Md Jahidul Islam said acting on a tip-off, a team of police conducted a raid in ...

A housewife allegedly committed suicide by taking poison at Baniachong upazil in Habiganj district on Wednesday evening. The incident took place at Tophkhana village of the upazila at around 5 pm. The deceased was identified as Asma Akhtar, 22, wife of Anu Miah, a resident of the village. Quoting family members, police said the housewife took poison following family dispute ...