Sylhet

Five children have died within a single day in Sylhet while undergoing treatment for measles-like symptoms. The deaths occurred over the past 24 hours in various hospitals across the Sylhet region. This is the first time as many as five children have died in a single day due to measles-related symptoms; previously, the highest number recorded in a single day ...

Two people were killed and at least 10 others injured in a head-on collision between a passenger bus and a Laguna (human hauler) on the Sunamganj-Sylhet Regional Highway on Wednesday morning. The accident occurred at approximately 11:30 am on the north bank of the Ahsanmara Bridge, near the Jagjibanpur passenger shelter in Sunamganj Sadar upazila. The deceased were identified as ...

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) returned fire after India’s Border Security Force (BSF) fired shots in the Sonarhat border area of Sylhet’s Gowainghat upazila yesterday afternoon, the BGB said. However, no casualties were reported. Lieutenant Colonel Md Nazmul Haque, commanding officer of the Sylhet Battalion (48 BGB), in a press release, said today that BSF opened fire in the Sonarhat border ...

A Sunamganj court has sentenced three individuals to life imprisonment for gang-raping a young woman in Chhatak upazila of Sunamganj district on Monday. Judge Muhammad Habibullah of Sunamganj Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal delivered the verdict. The convicts are Motiur Rahman Matin, Dildar Hossain and Billal Hossain, all residents of Chhatak upazila. According to the case details, on August ...

Hawkers in Sylhet staged a sit-in, blocking the busy road in front of Sylhet Nagar Bhaban on Sunday to demand an immediate end to harassment against them and approval to sit on the city streets with their businesses. Hundreds of street vendors arrived in small processions from across the city chanting slogans in favour of their demands, and began the ...

A grandmother was stabbed to death after she tried to stop a group of armed assailants from forcibly abducting her 14-year-old granddaughter around 3am on Friday in Sylhet’s Goainghat upazila. The incident took place around 3am on Friday in the Birmongol Haor village under Rustampur union. Police recovered the body from the scene at around 10am the following morning. According ...

Bangladesh Police Headquarters has withdrawn Moulvibazar’s newly appointed Superintendent of Police (SP), Md. Riazul Islam, only seven days after he assumed office, according to an official order issued on Friday. The withdrawal order, signed by Inspector General of Police (IGP) Md. Ali Hossain Fakir on May 15, instructed Riazul Islam to hand over his responsibilities to a senior district police ...

A student of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), who went missing from Bichhanakandi in Gowainghat upazila of Sylhet, was found dead after about five hours on Friday. Deceased, Shanto Bonik, was a student of the Petroleum and Mining Engineering (PME) department from the 2023-24 academic session. He hailed from Thakurgaon district. University Proctor Professor Md Mokhlesur Rahman confirmed ...

Transport workers in the Sylhet Division have announced an indefinite work stoppage from 6am on May 19, demanding the withdrawal of what they say are false cases filed against several leaders of the Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation. The decision was taken at an emergency meeting of the federation’s Sylhet divisional committee yesterday night (14 May). Leaders said the cases ...

Pubali Bank has inaugurated the “Pubali Bank Green Lounge” at Osmani International Airport, Sylhet (Domestic Terminal). The opening of the lounge is part of its “continued commitment to delivering customer-centric, modern and premium banking services”, the bank said in a press release on Thursday. Pubali Bank Director Rumana Sharif, Director Rana Laila Hafiz and Managing Director and CEO Mohammad Ali ...