Sylhet

Moulvibazar Correspondent : The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Monday filed two separate cases against a couple on charges of amassing Tk4.79 crore in illegal wealth. ACC Deputy Director Ali Akbar filed the cases with its integrated district office in Dhaka-1, said ACC spokesperson M Arif Sadiq. According to the case documents, Moulvibazar Sadar Hospital Administrative Officer Zakir Hossain amassed illegal ...

Sunamganj Correspondent : Planning Minister MA Mannan today said that the general point to point inflation has been reducing in the country and it would further reduce in this December also. “Inflation has been reducing across the globe and it is also reducing in Bangladesh over the last three months. Hopefully it will reduce further in December,” he said. Mannan ...

Three constables of Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP) have been dismissed for trying to trap a college student in a false drug case. The dismissed constables are Md Jhunu Hossain Joy, Imran Mia, and Mohammad Abdullah appointed at SMP police line, confirmed Additional Deputy Commissioner of SMP Sudip Das confirmed on Thursday. On October 13, Saifur Rahman Asad, 18, son of ...

A court in Habiganj on Thursday sentenced two people to death for raping a youth girl at Madhabpur upazila in the district in 2019. Habiganj Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-3 Judge S M Nasim Reza handed down the verdict this afternoon. The convicts are Shahid Miah, 45, and Mostafa Miah, 35. The court also fined them Tk 1 lakh ...

A five-month-old child, who was stolen from his residence in Dhaka’s Savar four days ago, has been rescued from Sylhet city. Police have arrested accused Tarmin Akhter Mim, 32, in this connection. According to police, Tarmin Akhter used to live in a house in Malancha area in Savar. On November 27, Munnaf Khan and his wife went out from their ...

A female student hanged herself after failing the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations of in Sylhet’s Gowainghat upazila on Monday. Deceased Fahima Begum was daughter of Abdul Aziz of Jamkandi village. She took part as SSC candidate from  Birmangal High School. KM Nazrul Islam, officer in-charge of Gowainghat Police Station, said Fahima hanged herself at home on Monday afternoon, shortly ...

The pass rate of SSC examination of Sylhet is lowest in the country this year. This year, 78.82% students have passed in this board. The pass rate in Sylhet is 18% lower than last year. However, despite the decrease in the pass rate, GPA-5 has increased by 2,371 in Sylhet. Arun Chandra Pal, Controller of Examinations, Board of Intermediate and ...

The newly active Beanibazar well located in Sylhet will include eight million cubic feet (mmcf) of gas to the national grid daily from tomorrow. The testing activities of Beanibazar well have been done and all technical preparations of supplying gas to the national grid at final stage have been completed, said Sylhet Gas Fields Limited (SGFL) Managing Director Md Mizanur ...

A 10-year-old boy died in an explosion of a toy-like object coined with wire in Gowainghat upazila of the district Saturday night. The deceased–Jewel Mia, was son of Moina Mia of Mohammadpur village under the upazila. KM Nazrul Islam, officer-in-charge of Gowainghat police station, said the victim’s parents break stones imported from India. Mother Josna got a toy-like substance coined ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Saturday called upon all to keep trust in Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, saying Bangladesh will see more development if Awami League is voted to power again in the next parliamentary polls. “Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has shown the country’s strength by constructing a tunnel beneath river Karnaphuli. So, keep trust in Sheikh ...