Sylhet

Communal fundamentalist forces are emerging at various levels of society and state structure; Culture activists have expressed fear that the anti-liberation war forces are creating division among people in the name of religion. They also warned the government that the allies of the defeated forces of the 1970s, who are hiding inside the administrative and social structures, can strike at ...

At the end of Baisakh, there is still no rain and hailstorm. Prolonged drought everywhere. There is a cry for rain all around. Cropland has dried up. As a result, there is a fear of disruption of Aush Abad. In this situation, Istiska prayers and special prayers have been organized for rain in Tatriuli village of Karmadha Union of Kulaura, ...

A man died from electrocution at Moiri village in Bahubal upazila of the district today. The deceased was identified as Jayanta Pal, 42, a resident of the village. He was an NGO worker. According to locals, the man came in contact with a live electric wire when he was setting a fan, leaving him critically injured. Family members took him ...

A woman was crushed under the wheels of a train at Fenchuganj upazila in Sylhet district on Thursday night. The identity of the deceased was not known immediately. It was learnt that a Sylhet bound-train from Dhaka hit the woman while she was crossing rail line in Mallickpur area at around 9:30 pm. Later, being informed, police recovered the body ...

Saud Al Arefin Paplu, a resident of Daudpur village of Baramchal, Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar, went missing while performing Umrah with his family. He went missing while doing Tawaf of the Holy Kaaba Sharif with his mother and brother on May 8. After searching around, the family did not find any trace of him. The disappearance was later reported to ...

A Sylhet court on Wednesday placed 13 BNP and Chhatra Dal leaders and activists on a one-day remand in a case over alleged involvement in police assault and obstruction of government work. Sylhet Kotwali police station arrested them on Tuesday and produced them in court seeking a five-day remand for each. However, Sylhet Metropolitan Magistrate third court Judge Sharmin Khanam ...

Two people were killed and five others injured in a crash between a private car and CNG- run auto rickshaw on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Nabiganj upazila of Habiganj district on Wednesday afternoon. The accident took place at Fultali Bazaar area under Gaznaipur union of the upazila at around 3.00 pm. The deceased were identified as the auto rickshaw passengers ...

Members of Rapid Action Battalion have arrested four members of a newly formed extremist outfit Jama’atul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya in Sylhet’s airport area. Based on intelligence, they were arrested in an overnight operation on Monday, RAB-9 said in a press conference on Tuesday. Abdullah Maymoon alias Mumin, 34, shura member of Jama’atul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya and head of ...

A man was reportedly stabbed to death by his uncle in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar district on Tuesday evening. The incident took place at Gazipur Tea Garden of the upazila at around 7.15 pm. The deceased was identified as Sunil Goalar, 30, son of Kamal Goalar, a resident of the tea garden area. Quoting locals, Kulaura Police Station sub-inspector Salauddin ...

Awami League nominated candidate Md. Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury has collected the nomination papers for Sylhet City Corporation election. Nomination papers were collected from the Sylhet regional election office on Monday afternoon. Syed Kamal Hossain, the official of media cell formed by Sylhet Regional Election Office on the occasion of Sylhet city election, confirmed the information about the collection of nomination papers ...