Sylhet

Miscreants set Garakata Government Primary School, a designated polling centre, on fire in Madhyanagar of Sunamganj early on Saturday. Locals and police quickly brought the fire under control, but the wooden doors and windows saw some damage. The polling centre is located 15km from Madhyanagar police station. The only transportation options available are motorcycles and boats. Additionally, due to the ...

The Jatiya Party (JaPa) nominated candidate for Moulvibazar-1 constituency, Riaz Uddin withdrew his candidacy from the 12th general election on Saturday, a day ahead of the polls. He announced the decision on a video posted in his facebook timeline on Saturday afternoon. He stated on the video that he withdrew his candidate due to the lack of fair polls environment. ...

A driver and a helper were injured when arsonists set fire to a truck on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Sylhet’s Dakshin Surma upazila early today. Injured truck driver Afzol Miah, 30, of Shyampur in Sylhet city, and helper Joynul Abedin, 18, of Konagaon village in Moulvibazar’s Kamalganj upazila are undergoing treatment at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital. Md Yardous ...

A polling centre was set on fire at sadar upazila in Moulvibazar on Friday night. The arson took place at Sabia Government Primary School under Chandnighat union of the upazila. Eyewitnesses said around 8 pm, four youths on two motorcycles took a position outside the gate of the school and threw kerosene in a plastic bottle inside the school. When ...

Police arrested four BNP men, including three BNP leaders, from a procession march held at Ambarkhana area in Sylhet city on Friday. The arrested are Fisheries Secretary of district unit BNP Jalal Khan, Sylhet city unit leader Ali Haider Moznu, BNP leader Akbar and an activist, who could not be identified immediately. According to BNP sources, a procession march and ...

Due to dense fog, an international flight destined for Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka has been diverted to Sylhet. Th US Bangla flight from Dubai arrived in Sylhet Osmani International Airport at 7:40am on Friday due to the fog. After 50 minutes, the flight left for Dhaka at 8:30am when the weather became normal. Raqib Rahman, the manager of ...

The election inquiry committee has served show-caused notice to Shamsher Mubin Chowdhury, a Trinamool BNP candidate for the Sylhet-6 constituency, for violating the electoral code of conduct. Al Asad Md Mahmudul Islam, chairman of the electoral inquiry committee formed for Sylhet-6 constituency, issued the notice asking Mubin or his representative to submit a written response to the inquiry committee office ...

Three Jatiyo Party and Bangladesh Nationalist Movement (BNM) candidates in three districts under Sylhet division have announced their withdrawal from the election race in the last two days. Of them, Sabbir Ahmed, JP candidate for Sylhet-5 constituency, announced his withdrawal at a press conference in Sylhet city today stating that the electoral situation is not suitable, reports our Sylhet correspondent. ...

Unable to land at Dhaka’s Shahjalal International Airport due to dense fog, two aircraft arriving at Osmani International Airport in Sylhet on Tuesday morning collided while parking, resulting in mechanical issues for both planes. The aircraft arriving from Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, managed to rectify its mechanical problem and continued its journey to Dhaka. However, the plane from Guangzhou, China, ...

Three people were killed and two others injured in a road accident in Sunamganj’s Chhatak upazila on Tuesday. This accident happened in Barakapan area of the upazila in the morning. The deceased were Abdul Karim, Nurul Haque and Asad Uddin. According to police and locals, some traders were going to Sylhet to sell fish by a pickup van from Sunamganj’s ...