Sylhet

A powerful syndicate is allegedly plundering stones from Bholaganj’s Sadapathor quarry with the help of a few local influential figures and corrupt members of the police. Once a thriving tourist destination, the area has now lost much of its scenic beauty. Although the administration claims to be conducting regular mobile court drives, in reality, the looting continues unabated. Local resident ...

Bangladesh Army has arrested a youth with hemp from Derai upazila in Sunamganj district on Sunday night. The arrested is Md Wasir Mia, a resident of Matiapur village in Karimpur union of the upazila. Acting on a tip-off, a team of army officials led by Major Asif Rana conducted a drive and arrested Wasir from his residence. They also seized ...

Members of RAB-9 has arrested seven individuals, including Azmal Hossain, who had introduced himself as a “coordinator,” in connection with an extortion case on the river route in Gowainghat, Sylhet. The arrested were handed over to Gowainghat police on Sunday (August 10) afternoon. Earlier, the arrests were made around 3:00 AM during a raid in Shayestaganj, Habiganj, based on a ...

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered the body of a BGB member from a river at Gowainghat upazila in Sylhet district on Sunday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Masum Billah, a member of the BGB-48 battalion. According to BGB, Masum drowned in the river while a BGB boat tried to stop and collided with an Indian boat carrying smuggled goods ...

A Jubo Dal activist was stabbed to death around midnight on Saturday in the Golapganj municipality area of Sylhet. The deceased was Rony Hossain, 26, killed reportedly an hour after he made a Facebook post about a former Chhatra Dal leader’s alleged extramarital affair. The former Chhatra Dal leader in question is Sheikh Raju, 35, former organizing secretary of the ...

Two individuals were arrested with huge quantities of Indian smuggled goods from Beanibazar upazila of Sylhet district on Saturday morning. The arrested are Zahed Ahmed, 24 and Hasan Imran, 20; both are residents of Satpari village in Kanaighat upazila of the district. Acting on a tip-off, police searched a stone-laden truck on the Kaskatkha-Lalpur Bridge in the area and arrested ...

The National Citizens Party’s Sylhet district joint coordinator Abul Ahsan Jabur, also elder brother of ATM Turab, a journalist who was martyred during the last year’s July uprising, resigned from the party on Thursday night. Turab, a regional daily’s photo-journalist, was shot to death allegedly by the police during a clash between the students and the law enforcers in Zindabazar ...

A man was stabbed to death in public in Sylhet on Thursday night (August 7). The incident occurred around 11:30 PM near the city’s Queen Bridge area. The victim was identified as Dalim, 35, son of Lokman Mia from Merenga village in Mymensingh district. Police suspect that the killing was linked to a mugging attempt. According to locals, the attacker ...

A three-member team from Barlekha Government Degree College in Moulvibazar has secured first place at the national level in a graffiti competition held to commemorate the spirit of the July 2024 mass uprising. The team comprising Moazzama Labiba Binte Hamid, Amina Sultana, and Nusrat Jahan Riya — all second year science students — participated in the “24-er Range: Graffiti and ...

The deceased were Afsana Khushi, daughter of Dolowar Hossain, a first-year student of Sunamganj Textile Institute, and Sneha Chakraborty, a student of Sunamganj University of Science and Technology, daughter of Bipul Chakraborty and Joyti Chakraborty, Sneha’s father head teachers of Joykals village in Shantiganj Upazila. The other deceased was Shafiqul Islam, a resident of Alipara in the city. It is ...