Sylhet

Businesspeople in Sylhet have threatened to go for movement if the power crisis in the district is not resolved in the next 48 hours. Bangladesh Dokan Malik Shamity, Sylhet, Sylhet Metropolitan and District Businessmen Oikkya Kalyan Parishad said this in a joint statement on Monday. According to the statement, the local businesses are facing severe losses due to excessive load ...

A Swechasebak League leader and an activist were hacked by unidentified miscreants in Sylhet city on Sunday night. The injured are Manjur Ahmed, general secretary of ward No-7 unit of the Awami League’s voluntary wing Swechasebak League and party activist Rumel Ahmed. They both are residents of Lal-Sabuj residential area of the city. Of them, Manjur was shifted to a ...

Five people have been detained in Moulvibazar’s Juri upazila with police claiming that they were pushed back by Indian border security force. Abdul Kaium, Goalbari Union chairman, said the detainees, including two Rohingyas, were pushed back into Bangladesh through the Lathitila border area. Their suspicious behaviour led to their detention and interrogation, during which they revealed they had gone to ...

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained a former upazila chairman while trying to flee to India illegally through Sylhet’s Jaintiapur upazila last night. The detainee, Kamal Ahmed, was a former chairman of the upazila and president of the upazila unit of Awami League. BGB detained him at around 8:00pm and handed him over to the police. Confirming his detention, Mohammad Mahbubur ...

A number of farmers have achieved massive success in cultivating bean in the summertime in different places of the division. Although bean is known as a winter vegetable, two varieties of the vegetable released by Sylhet Agriculture University (SAU) have showed huge success in its farming during summer, said Professor Md Shahidul Islam of SAU horticulture department. He also said ...

The latest floods and rolling water from upstream Indian states of Assam and Tripura have caused large-scale damage to standing crops in Sylhet region in addition to road links and flood-control structures. The third phase of severe floods of the year had shattered local farmers’ attempt to recoup previous damage, officials and farmers said. Aus harvest was nearing end while ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has expelled three leaders of Chhatra Dal, a student wing of the party, in Sylhet for breaching party discipline and tarnishing it’s image. A letter, signed by Joynal Abedin, deputy secretary of Sylhet district Chhatra Dal, issued in this regard on Thursday (September 5). According to letter, the Chhatra Dal leaders have been temporarily removed based ...

The Indian Border Security Force handed over the body of a 13-year-old Bangladeshi girl, who was shot and killed in BSF firing, to the Border Guard Bangladesh on Tuesday night —45 hours after the incident occurred, according to police. Kulaura Police Station officer-in-charge Binoy Bhusan Roy confirmed the handover, stating that the body was subsequently returned to the girl’s family ...

A man was killed and at least 10 people were injured in a clash between two groups due to a dispute over shop arrears on Tuesday in Habiganj’s Bahubal. The victim Amir Hossain, 70, was a resident of Rajapur Kaitgaon village under the upazila. He died on Tuesday afternoon while undergoing treatment at Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital. The clash ...

The recent devastating food has badly affected fish farmers in Habiganj and Moulvibazar districts of Sylhet division, causing a loss of Tk 200 million (20 crore) in the fisheries sector. The calamity hit the region thrice in recent months, submerging 3,061 ponds on 276 hectares of land and washing away 1,557 tonnes of fish of different species, officials said. Besides, ...