Sylhet

An imam named Maulana Abdul Malik Al Mansuri (68) fell to his death on the stage while addressing the worshipers at a waj mahfil in Kulaura, Moulvibazar. The incident took place on Tuesday (March 21) around 10 pm in Brahmanbazar Union area of the upazila. He is the imam and khatib of Baitul Mamur Central Jame Masjid of that union. ...

Sylhet City Corporation Mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury, who is undergoing treatment in the capital Dhaka, has expressed his desire to return to Sylhet. If everything is fine, he can return to Sylhet on Wednesday (March 22). This was said by the Chief Health Officer of Sylhet City Corporation. Zahidul Islam. He said that currently the physical condition of Mayor Ariful ...

Sudden cyclone and hailstorm caused extensive damage in Kulaura of Moulvibazar. Today Tuesday (March 21) in the afternoon, hundreds of houses and plants have been severely damaged by the half-hour-long cyclone and hailstorm that suddenly swept over Kulaura upazila. In the cyclone, houses and shops were destroyed in various unions of the upazila including Sadar, Prithimpasha, Tilagaon. It is known ...

Two people from Sylhet Division have died after being walloped at their workplace in Portugal’s agricultural and tourist town of Beja. They died on Monday (March 20) afternoon local time while driving a construction site. The deceased are Suhed Ahmed (32) of village Kargaon Ujanpara of Laxnaband union of Golapganj police station of Sylhet district and Shaheen Ahmed (47) of ...

Goainghat upazila administration of Sylhet took the initiative to make a master plan two years ago to bring Ratargul Jalaban (Swamp Forest) under planned management. At that time, the teachers of Shahjalal Science and Technology University were also said to be associated with it. But the work has not yet started according to that plan. And the officials of the ...

After one year, Sylhet district BNP committee has become full. The committee has already been approved by the center. So far the activities were going on with the 3-member committee of the district. However, after the approval of the committee, many leaders and activists are expressing their anger. Many have announced their withdrawal from the district BNP committee on social ...

Medicines are being sprayed sometimes with fogger machines and sometimes with spray machines. Cleaning activities are also carried out from time to time. But despite all these arrangements, the mosquito infestation is not reducing in Sylhet city. Mosquitoes have become ‘stronger’ than all initiatives of Sylhet City Corporation (SCC). Residents of the city have to suffer day and night equally ...

606 more families of Sylhet are going to get houses under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s shelter project. The prime minister will inaugurate the program of handing over the house keys on March 22. The concerned said that Fenchuganj, Dakshin Surma, Kanighat and Jaintapur upazilas will be declared as ‘landless and homeless’ by providing land and houses to 606 families of ...

Moulvibazar Correspondent : A fire incident occurred in Lawachara National Park in Kamolganj, Moulvibazar. Officials of the forest department initially believe that the fire on Saturday evening has burnt about one acre of various types of bushes and plants. The fire broke out at around seven in the evening yesterday in the north-west of the student dormitory lake of Lauachra ...

Habiganj Correspondent : Transport movement in Habiganj remained suspended from Sunday morning following a strike called by the District Road Transport Workers Union and Ambulance Owners Workers Association. The strike began at 6am. They called the indefinite strike to press home their nine-point demand including ambulance parking facility on the premises of Habiganj Sadar Hospital. Passengers have been suffering immensely ...