Sylhet

Speakers at a discussion meeting in the city yesterday underlined the need for preparedness to reduce the risks of natural disaster. They also laid importance on public awareness and modernised training to protect lives, livelihood and resources of millions of people across the country during natural calamity. The discussion on ‘National Disaster Preparedness Day-2015′ was held at the conference room ...

A man has been hacked to death by his younger brothers over land dispute in the Sadar upazila. The deceased, Harunur Rashid, 30, died at Habiganj Sadar Hospital on Tuesday afternoon. Locals said Harun, also a member of the upazila unit BNP, had a long- standing dispute with his younger brothers over ownership of a land. On Tuesday afternoon, Harun ...

‘They were supposed to be sent to Gazipur Juvenile Correction Centre in the Tuesday afternoon’ Two juveniles, who were detained on charge of stealing, have reportedly gone missing from the district Jail on Tuesday. The missing teenagers, Antor and Nayan, were picked up by the police on Saturday on charge of stealing valuables from a house in Sreemangal upazila of ...

A person has been killed in a thunderstorm at South Ura village in Modhonogor of Sunamganj district. Ali Hossain, 18 died when he took his cattle to a field around 9am on Sunday. He was the son of Ramjan Ali. Meanwhile, a child was also injured in the incident. South Bongshikundo UP Chairman Rasel Ahmed confirmed about the death to ...

One worker were killed and two injoured in a landslide while extracting stones from Jaflong in Goainghat upazila on Monday night. The deceased were identified as Ali Ahmed, 40, son of Ershad Ullah, alompur village in Duara upazila. Officer-in-charge of Goainghat police station Abdul Hai said the incident took place in between 8pm and 9 pm, leaving them dead on ...

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 ...