Sylhet

Moulvibazar Correspondent : Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained six Bangladeshi nationals, including a child, while they were attempting to illegally cross into India through the Muraichhara border in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar. The detainees were later handed over to Kulaura Police Station. A case under the Passport Act has been filed against five of them. According to BGB and police sources, ...

Passengers travelling between Dhaka and Sylhet are set to benefit from a new non-stop intercity train service, with the government approving the launch of the “Tanguar Express” to ease growing demand on the busy route. Railways Minister Sheikh Rabiul Alam told parliament on Wednesday that the prime minister had approved the introduction of one pair of non-stop intercity trains on ...

Sreemangal Battalion (46 BGB) has distributed free medical services, essential medicines, water purification tablets, and cooked food among hundreds of flood-affected border residents in Kamalganj upazila of Moulvibazar. The humanitarian program was organized on Wednesday (July 15) at the Kurmachhara Government Primary School ground under the jurisdiction of Mokabil BOP in the upazila. Sreemangal Battalion Commander Lieutenant Colonel Sarkar Asif ...

Habiganj Correspondent : The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has deployed drones to deliver relief to people stranded in remote, waterlogged villages in the flood-hit haor region of Habiganj. Alongside boat-based operations, drones have been used to air-drop dry food and cash assistance to areas inaccessible due to flooding, BGB officials said. The operation began yesterday in several villages under Sujatpur ...

Sylhet Office : A court today sentenced one criminal to death and three others to life-term imprisonment in the gang rape case involving a young woman at the Murari Chand (MC) College dormitory here. The court also acquitted four accused in the case. The Sylhet Speedy Trial Tribunal Judge Swapan Kumar Sarkar delivered the verdict this afternoon. The court sentenced ...

Measles-like symptoms have claimed two more children’s lives in Bangladesh’s Sylhet Division. The children died while undergoing treatment between Monday morning and Tuesday morning, said Mohammad Nur-e-Alam Shamim, assistant director of the Sylhet Directorate General of Health Services. They were being treated at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital and Shahid Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital.

People in flood-affected areas of Moulvibazar have fallen into extreme trouble with their cattle during the ongoing flood. Flood has been the main reason for the severe crisis of cattle feed. Many cattle have fallen ill due to a lack of food. Under these circumstances, many are unable to sell their cattle. Although the floodwaters are receding, a severe crisis ...

Sylhet Correspondent : A memorial meeting was held on Saturday evening to mark the 40th death anniversary of poet Laila Ragib, the visionary of the ‘Write Poems in the Language of the Lips’ movement, founding president of Sylhet Writers’ Association and editor of the poetry magazine Kabi Sanglap. The speakers demanded the inclusion of poet Laila Ragib’s poems in textbooks. ...

  By Matiar Chowdhury:   Sipahsalar Syed Nasir Uddin—one of the 360 ​​*Awliya* (saints) accompanying Hazrat Shah Jalal (RA)—is an unforgettable name in the history of Sylhet. Following the conquest of Sylhet in 703 Hijri, twelve *Awliya* (saints), led by Sipahsalar Syed Nasir Uddin, defeated the tyrannical King Achak Narayan of Taraf and conquered the kingdom of Taraf. The shrine ...

Donation boxes at the shrine of Hazrat Shahjalal (R) in Sylhet yielded Tk47,10,153 in cash over 18 days in the second public counting of the shrine’s 700-year history, officials said today (11 July). The counting, conducted from the morning in the presence of media representatives and members of the public, also uncovered foreign currencies from 12 countries, 9 grams of ...