Sylhet

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized 46.5 kilograms of ilish fish that were being smuggled into India through the Tahirpur border area in Sunamganj on Saturday. The seizure took place around 3pm. According to BGB sources, a group of smugglers was transporting ilish fish for illegal export into India through Shahidabad when the incident occurred. Upon receiving information, the ...

Police recovered three dead bodies including a woman from separate places in Chunarughat of Habiganj district on Thursday (August 29). Police and local sources said a man named Sumon Roy was electrocuted in a poultry farm in Gaziganj of Raniganj union under Chunarughat upazila. An unidentified woman was also found dead in Khowai river in Mirashi union on Thursday afternoon. ...

Meghalaya police have handed over the body of Awami League leader Ishaque Ali Khan Panna, whose half-decomposed body was found inside a betelnut plantation in Jaintia Hills district bordering Bangladesh, to his family. The body was sent through Tamabil immigration post in Sylhet at about 11:30AM and Tamabil police received the body after legal procedure. Upazila administration, BGB and family ...

A 21-year-old youth’s body was found hanging from a tree at Madhyanagar upazila in Sunamganj district on Friday. Police recovered the body of Sheikh Shahid, 21, of Harinakandi village under the upazila, around 11 AM on Friday. Madhyanagar Police Station sub-inspector Bikash Sarkar confirmed the information. Citing the deceased family members, Bikash Sarkar said that the victim was suffering from ...

A man was killed and at least 40 others were injured in a clash between two villagers over a land dispute in Sunamganj’s Derai upazila on Thursday. The incident took place at Rafinagar and Mirzapur under the upazila in the afternoon. The victim’s identity was not immediately known. According to police and locals, there was a dispute over land between ...

Custom Intelligence and National Security Intelligence (NSI) in a joint drive arrested a man along with 1,372 bhoris of gold from Sylhet Osmani International Airport on Wednesday. The arrested was identified as Hossain Ahmed, son of Nurul Islam of Goramarakandi village in Goainghat upazila of the district. Director of Civil Aviation of Sylhet Hafiz Ahmed confirmed the matter, adding that ...

A Bangladeshi man sustained bullet injury in firing by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Sylhet’s Companiganj border on Monday night. The man was identified as Md Nizam Uddin, son of Alauddin, a resident of Bijoypara village under Uttar Ronikhai union in the upazila. He has been undergoing treatment at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital. Locals said that smugglers ...

A case has been filed in Sylhet against former Supreme Court Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik. Police filed the case at the Kanaighat police station under Passport Act for attempting to enter India, said Jahangir Hossain Sardar, officer-in-charge (OC) of the police station. Manik was detained by the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Friday night while allegedly attempting to cross ...

Lieutenant Commander Sabbir Alam Sujan, the media officer at the Coast Guard headquarters, shared this information on Monday, 26 August 2024. He mentioned that the Coast Guard has continued rescue operations, medical assistance, and relief distribution for those affected by the severe floods. As part of this effort, medical camps were set up in the flood-hit areas of Fulgazi in ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today said the ousted prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, is trying to create confusion among the countrymen by staying in India. “The works of building new Bangladesh have been started after fleeing the ousted prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on August 5 through student-people movement. Works are going on to build a real humanitarian Bangladesh by ensuring justice and ...