Sylhet

Police recovered the body of a man stuffed in a sack from the Surma River at Dakshin Surma upazila in Sylhet district on Monday morning. Deceased identities, age around 40, could not found immediately. Quoting locals, Dakshin Surma Police Station officer-in-charge Md Kamrul Hasan Talukder said locals saw the body on a bank of the river at Baraiandi area and ...

Private carrier Air Astra will operate two daily flights between Dhaka and Sylhet from February 23. The one-way fare will start from Tk3,495, including all taxes, Air Astra said. This destination in northeast Bangladesh, after Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar, is being launched within the first three months since the airline began commercial flight operations on November 24, 2022, reports UNB. ...

A 4.3-magnitude quake took place 11 kilometres northeast of Chhatak in Sylhet at 9:56am today. The earthquake hit at a depth of 64.8km, according to the United States Geological Survey. Farzana Sultana, assistant meteorologist of Bangladesh Meteorological Department, said, “The earthquake happened at 9:56am and registered at 4.3 on the Richter scale. The epicentre was India’s Meghalaya region. “It’s impact ...

Habiganj Correspondent : Four people were killed and at least 20 injured as a bus overturned on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Bahubal upazila of Habiganj district on Thursday. Details of the deceased could not be known immediately. Habiganj Bus Owners Association general secretary Shangka Suvro said, “A bus was carrying passengers from Sylhet city to Habiganj district on Thursday. The ...

National Board of Revenue (NBR) Chairman Abu Hena Md. Rahmatul Muneem visited an industrial park of country’s leading business conglomerate PRAN-RFL Group in Habiganj yesterday. Ahsan Khan Chowdhury, chairman and chief executive officer at PRAN-RFL Group, Choudhury Atiur Rasul, director (Accounts) and Kamruzzaman Kamal, director (Marketing) welcomed the NBR Chairman at Habiganj Industrial Park. Muneem visited various manufacturing units of ...

Members of Rapid Action Battalion arrested the prime accused in the Sonia Akter murder case in a drive at the Sayedabad bus stand area in Dhaka yesterday. The arrestee is Md Sojib, 25, of Sharifnagar village in Habiganj’s Ajmiriganj. He is the victim’s cousin. “Since the murder, Rab started a shadow investigation and located the prime suspect in Dhaka. Based ...

Police recovered the throat-slit body of a college student from her home in Khuliatula area of Sylhet on Sunday afternoon. The deceased was Sonia Begum, 18, daughter of Selim Mia of Sylhet’s Zakiganj upazila and a student of Dakshin Surma Degree College. Azbahar Ali Sheikh, additional deputy commissioner (north) of Sylhet Metropolitan Police, said Sonia was living with her family ...

Two people, including a woman, were killed and three others injured as a CNG-run auto-rickshaw collided head-on with a truck on-Sylhet-Bianibazar road at Golapganj in Sylhet on Sunday. The identities of the deceased and injured could not be known immediately. Officer-in-charge Rafiqul Islam of Golapganj Model Police Station said a Sylhet-bound CNG-run auto-rickshaw collided head-on with a speedy truck coming ...

Nurul Huda Mukut and Noman Bakht Palin have been made president and general secretary of Awami League’s Sunamganj district unit respectively. Awami League Central General Secretary Obaidul Quader announced the new committee after the triennial council of the unit this afternoon. He also announced former general secretary Enamul Kabir Imon as a member of the national committee. Currently, Nurul Huda ...

BNP’s mass movement has been seriously damaged at the Gopalganj cow market, quipped Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader. He said, “People, and even horses, laugh at the pace of BNP’s movement. In their injured state, they speak in scared tones about their march. Find out just in how many unions were their marches held. BNP’s movement is a dead ...