Sylhet

Law enforcers surrounding a house at Jagannathpur in Sunamganj district have found huge quantity of explosive making equipment. Special teams of the Bangladesh Army and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) carried out a drive into the house on Sunday morning. It is learnt that one Afzal, son of Akhlakur Rahman, of village Digholbak Atghar under Jagannathpur upazila fled witnessing a police ...

Five persons, including two children, were killed and three others injured in a road accident at Madhabpur upazila in Habiganj district early Saturday. The deceased were Abdus Salam, 32, Sadia, 21, Habiba, 2, Sihab, 13, and microbus driver Sadir Ali. They were the residents of Madanagar village under Kulaura upazila of Moulvibajar district. The injured were Raju, 29, his father ...

The hanging body of a schoolgirl was recovered by police at Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar district on Saturday morning. The dead was Ruma Munda, 16, daughter of Kalichandra Munda, a resident of Jalai village under Jaichandi union. Police said family members spotted the girl hanging in her room in the morning. Later, she was rescued and rushed to hospital where ...

SAU Correspondent : At least 10 people were injured in a clash between two factions of the Sylhet Agricultural University (SAU) unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) on Friday. The clash broke out on the campus around 2.45pm. According to police, SAU Chhatra League president Ashikur Rahman and general secretary Md. Emdadul Hossain convened a meeting on the campus on ...

Over the past few days, a local influential group in Shamshernagar union of Moulvibazar’s Kamalganj upazila has illegally felled around 105 trees of various species on government land. Locals said this incident cost the government lakhs of taka in revenue. They also said tree felling has been going on for the past two days. Trees were cut down by unscrupulous ...

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen today said that the recommendations some foreigners at times give seem to be “idiotic and illusory”. “Foreigners’ knowledge on Bangladesh is very limited,” he said, adding that people of the country are well aware of this. The foreign minister was talking to reporters after a meeting at the community clinic of Civil Surgeon‘s office in ...

Moulvibazar Correspondent : A child was electrocuted at Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar on Tuesday morning. Deceased was Taiba, 4, daughter of Khasru Mia, a resident of Chhilarkandi village under Bhukshimail union. Police said the child came in contact with an electric wire in front of her house around 9 am, leaving her dead on the spot. Meanwhile, Atiqur Rahman, 22, ...

Two airplanes, carrying passengers from Qatar and Saudi Arabia headed for Dhaka airport, made emergency landings at Sylhet Osmani International Airport due to dense fog on Tuesday. The airplanes of US-Bangla Airlines and Biman from Doha of Qatar and Dammam of Saudi Arabia respectively made the emergency landing. Belayet Hossain, an officer of US-Bangla at the Osmani airport, said the ...

The lowest temperature in the country was recorded at Sreemangal of Moulvibazar on Tuesday (Today). Local weather office recorded 8.5 degree Celsius at 9 o’clock this morning while it was the lowest temperature in Sreemangal this season. On Monday, 9.5 degree Celsius temperature was recorded, which was second lowest temperature in the country. According to the website of Bangladesh Meteorological Department, ...

One of the wrists of a 35-year-old man was severed allegedly by his cousins in Sylhet’s Companiganj upazila on Monday over land dispute. The victim was identified as Helal Ahmed, a residet of East Kathalbari village of the upazila. According to the locals, there was a long dispute over a piece of land between the sons of Jashim Uddin and ...