Sylhet

After a long wait, the journey of Sunamganj-Jagannathpur-Aushkandi Regional Highway has started. On Monday, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated eight bridges including the Raniganj Bridge built on the Kushiara River through a virtual ceremony. Now people of Sunamganj do not have to visit Sylhet city to go to Dhaka. By reducing the distance to 60 km, the regional highway can ...

Moulvibazar Correspondent : BGB Srimangal Battalion (46BGB) distributed winter clothes among 600 poor families of Srimangal, Kamalganj and Kulaura upazilas on Friday on the occasion of Victory Day. Apart from this, along with the battalion (46 BGB) medical assistants and doctors of Srimangal Upazila Health Complex, Kalighat BOP under Srimangal Upazila distributed free medical services, medicines and medical supplies to ...

Sunamganj Correspondent : Police in separate drives arrested six drug peddlers along with 12 kgs of hemp from Madhyanagar upazila in Sunamganj district on Thursday morning. The detained were identified as Sadikul Islam, 50, Lalon Miah, 28, Ali Hossain, 35, Md. Mahabub, 22, residents of Kandalipara village and Sakil Miah, 22, Mithon Miah, 20, residents of Hamidpara village of the ...

A consortium of three firms based in China and Bangladesh, have jointly been awarded construction work of Dhaka-Sylhet Corridor Road Development Project under an initiative named ‘Bangladesh: South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Road Connectivity (SASEC).’ The total cost of the government has been estimated at Tk 1,085.34 crore. The project was approved in a virtual meeting of the cabinet committee ...

Moulvibazar Correspondent : Winter clothes were distributed among 500 helpless and cold-hit people at the premises of Kamolganj municipality in Moulvibazar district on Wednesday morning. Moulvibazar-4 MP Dr. Md. Abdus Shaheed was present as the chief guest at the programme with Kamolganj Municipality mayor Md. Juwel Ahmed in the chair. The programme was addressed, among others, by upazila nirbahi officer ...

Moulvibazar Correspondent : A mentally challenged girl hanged herself from ceiling of her house at Borocheg village under Shamshernagar union of Kamalganj upazila in Moulvibazar on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Shapla Akter, 17, daughter of Rois Miah , a resident of the village. The deceased’s mother said her daughter was mentally challenged. “I found her hanging inside the ...

Moulvibazar Correspondent : Moulvibazar Detective Branch (DB) in an anti-drug drive arrested a drug peddler along with 615 Yaba pills from Rahimpur union under Kamolganj upazila in Moulvibazar district on Saturday night around 11pm. The detainee was identified as Shuvo Das, 29, a resident of Shreenathpur village of the union. District Detective Branch officer-in-charge Ashraful Islam said, acting on a ...

Habiganj Correspondent : A person named Shahid was killed in a clash between the supporters of Brazil and Argentina at Bahubal upazila in Habiganj. The incident took place at Adityapur village of the upazila around 11:30 on Saturday. Locals said, on Friday night Brazil supporter Tenu Mia’s son Mubasvir and Argentina supporter Abdul Shahid’s son Rokan Mia had an argument ...

Higher education opportunities in the UK for Sylhet students have narrowed. At least fifty universities in the UK have stopped admitting students from Sylhet. According to those concerned with ‘student visa processing’, universities have imposed this stricture for three reasons. They commented that real students are suffering serious losses. Reasons include – Not completing the course in the UK for ...

Habiganj Correspondent : A policeman was burned to death in a fire that broke out in his house in Habiganj on early Tuesday. The deceased is Rubel Ahmed,25, a constable posted in Habiganj Traffic Office. He is the son of Abdul Mannan of Nijpat Jashpur village of Sylhet’s Jaintapur Upazila. Golam Mortuza, officer-in-charge of Habiganj Sadar Police Station, said that ...