Sylhet

A Sylhet court has sentenced three people to life-term imprisonment for killing a man in 2012. Additional Metropolitan and Sessions Judge Nure Alam Bhuiyan handed down the verdict on Wednesday. The court also fined convicts Tk 50, 000 each, in default, have to serve one more year in jail. Public Prosecutor advocate Md Jubayer Bakht said the convicts were — ...

Habiganj Correspondent : A young man reportedly committed at Chunarughat upazila in Habiganj district on Wednesday morning. The deceased was Mamun Miah, 25, a resident of Uttar Bejura village. Chunarughat Police Station officer-in-charge Ali Ashraf said the youth took poison at his home in the morning due to a family dispute. Family members rescued him and rushed to Habiganj District ...

Sylhet City Corporation elections will be held for the fifth time on June 21. After the establishment of Sylhet City Corporation in 2002, this is the first time that all the wards of Sylhet are voting through Electronic Voting Machine (EVM). Although there is a mixed reaction among the voters and candidates, the election mood is blowing among all. In ...

Getting an assurance from the deputy commissioner, Sunamganj District Bus, Minibus and Microbus Workers Union has postponed their indefinite strike. General secretary of the union Nurul Islam confirmed the transport postponed matter on Monday. Earlier on May 21, the workers called the strike for an indefinite period to press home their three-point demand. Deputy commissioner Didare Alam Mohammad Maksud Chowdhury ...

Police recovered the body of a bank official from his house at Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar district on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Sheikh Rafiqul Islam Siddique, 65, son of late Aslam Miah and a resident of Krishnapur village under Bhatera union of the upazila. According to the case statement, Rafiqul Islam was a bank official of UCB ...

Habiganj Correspondent : Three women were killed and at least 15 injured in a collision between a truck and a pickup van in Habiganj’s Bahubal upazila early Friday. The accident took place on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway’s Mouchak area around 2am. The deceased were Manjila Begum, 45, Tanzila Begum, 35, and Shahinur Begum, 45. All of them were the residents of ...

Four people, including a couple, were held with 50 kgs of hemp from Chunarughat of Habiganj district on Friday night. Police said they arrested the a couple –Faruk Mia, 55, son of Ansar Ali of the upazila, and his wife, with 30 kgs of hemp from their house at Kalishiri village of Ahmdabad union of the upazila. Meanwhile, RAB-9 of ...

The Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) said the electricity supply across Habiganj town will be halted for 8 hours on Saturday (May 27) for the repair work of the transmission line. According to BPDB, there will be no electricity in the entire town from 8 am to 4 pm on this day. Rakibul Islam, the assistant engineer of Habiganj, confirmed ...

Staff Reporter : Awami League nominated chairman candidate Nurul Islam has been elected Jagannathpur Upazila Parishad chairman. Nurul Islam got 22,212 votes while his nearest independent candidate Syed Talha Alam got 11,203 votes. Jagannathpur Upazila Parishad control room announced the results on thursday night.

Moulvibazar Government College Vice Principal Professor Saifuddin Ahmed has been appointed as the new Vice Principal of Sylhet’s traditional Murarichand (MC) College. He is an officer of 14th BCS. This information is known from the circular signed by Chowdhury Samia Yasmin, Deputy Secretary of Secondary and Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education on Wednesday. On August 24, 2022, ...