Sylhet

The admission test for first year honours at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) for the 2024-2025 academic year will be held on February 28. A press release of the university confirmed this on Thursday. It says, the admission-seekers could submit their applications from January 5, 2025, and the procession will continue till January 25. ‘B’ unit test will ...

Farms in Bangladesh’s Sylhet division have significantly outnumbered those in all other divisions in adopting mechanization. Preliminary findings of recent research reveal that 44% of Sylhet’s farms used modern machines to harvest the Boro crop in 2023, compared to a national average of only 20% for mechanized harvesting. Farmers in Sylhet division who cultivated rain-fed Aman rice the same year ...

Joint forces in a drive seized 300 bags of Bangladeshi garlic in Sunamganj’s Dowarabazar border area while they were being prepared for smuggling to India. The operation, conducted by a joint task force of police and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), took place on Saturday afternoon. Assistant Commissioner (Land) Sushanta Singha, leading the raid, confirmed that the garlic was seized from ...

Three people were killed and another was injured when a private car lost control and hit an electricity pole in Sylhet’s Jaintapur upazila on Friday. The accident occurred at around 11 am near to Dhamri Beel in Baghersarak area on the Sylhet-Tamabil road under the upazila. The identities of the dead could not be known immediately. Jaintapur Police Station Officer-in-Charge ...

The former additional deputy commissioner (ADC) of Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP) Sadeq Kawsar Dastagir has been placed on a five-day remand in a case filed over the murder of journalist ATM Turab during the recent student movement. Sylhet Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Abdul Momen passed the order on Thursday as police placed Dastagir before the court and prayed for a ...

The admission test for first year honours at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) for the 2024-2025 academic year will be held on February 28. A press release of the university confirmed this on Thursday. It says, the admission-seekers could submit their applications from January 5, 2025. The procession will continue till January 25.

International Migrants Day and National Expatriates Day were celebrated at Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar district on Wednesday. A rally and discussion were held in the afternoon under the initiative of the upazila administration to mark the day. Kulaura Upazila Nirbahi Officer Mohiuddin presided over the discussion held at the upazila parishad meeting room where Upazila Agriculture Officer Jasim Uddin, Upazila ...

Import and export activities between Bangladesh and India resumed on Tuesday (December 17) through Chatlapur Land Customs Station in Moulvibazar’s Kulaura upazila after a 21-day halt. The operations restarted with the export of 70 metric tons of fish to India, confirmed Chatlapur Customs inspector Habibur Rahman. The suspension began on November 27 following protests by Indian ISKCON workers and supporters ...

The “Fahim Al Ishaq Chowdhury Trust” has launched an initiative to award scholarships to meritorious students from grades five to eight in schools and madrasas of two upazilas in Sylhet, Zakiganj and Kanaighat, to promote education. The scholarship amounts are as follows: Tk2,500 for the Merit Grade, Tk2,000 for the First Grade, and Tk1,500 for the General Grade. Each student ...

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has seized a large consignment of smuggled Indian goods worth approximately Tk 1.5 crore from the border area of Sunamganj Sadar upazila. The operation took place on Monday morning on the Surma River. Lieutenant Colonel AKM Zakaria Kadir, commander of 28th Battalion of BGB in Sunamganj, confirmed the seizure, adding that the goods, reportedly smuggled from ...