Sylhet

Farmers of the district are passing busy times in fattening their cattle ahead of Eid-ul-Azha. About 7,200 farms in nine upazilas of the district have been working day and night to assure chemical free meat to customers, on this Eid. Talking to BSS, farmers in the region said they were using local methods in fattening their cows which prevents the ...

An empty oil-carrying train derailed at Moulvibazar’s Sreemangal Railway Station due to a driver’s error while attempting to turn the train on Saturday . The incident occurred around 1:30 PM at the Sreemangal Railway Station. According to railway officials, the engine of an empty oil wagon train derailed and got stuck in the soil beside the track while attempting a ...

The Indian administration has restricted nighttime movement in the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya, nearer to Sylhet border. As per the instruction, the movement of people will remain banned from 8PM to 6AM everyday. The night curfew was imposed in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills, West Jaintia Hills, and East Khasi Hills districts from May 8. The state shares a 443-km-long ...

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has handed over 15 individuals—including women, men, and children—who were reportedly “pushed in” to Bangladesh by India’s Border Security Force (BSF), to the Kamalganj Police Station in Moulvibazar. A team of BGB, led by Sreemangal BGB-46 Battalion’s Dalai camp in-charge Subedar Nasir Ahmed, officially handed the detainees over to Kamalganj police. The detainees are ...

  By Matiar Chowdhury:   A gathering and Eid reunion of former talented footballers from the Sylhet region has been held under the initiative of the  Greater Sylhet Footballers Association an organization of former footballers from the eighties and nineties of Greater Sylhet living in the UK . The gathering was held at a restaurant in the Whitechapel area of ​​East London ...

A 15-year-old school student died after being struck by lightning while fishing near his home at Chhatak upazila in Sunamganj on Thursday morning. The dead Mujibur Rahman was the son of Nurul Amin from Mayarkol village under Dakshin Khurma union and was an eighth-grade student at Khurma High School. The tragic accident occurred at Mayarkol village during rainfall, when Mujibur ...

The local administration promised to pay one week’s salary arrears and ration to tea workers in various gardens in Sylhet to return to work. The workers have agreed to reopen the tea gardens and return to work from next Friday. Sylhet Sadar Upazila Nirbahi Officer Khoshnur Rubaiyat confirmed the matter. He said that Bangladesh Tea Board Chairman Major General Sheikh ...

A Sylhet court sentenced a man to death and four others to life term imprisonment on Wednesday over a murder case in Gopalganj upazila of the district in 2021. Sylhet Additional Sessions Judge Mahmudul Hasan pronounced the verdict. The condemned convict was Wahidur Rahman Sunny, a resident of Hajipur village under Golapganj upazila of the district. Those who got life ...

A mobile court sentenced a young man to six months of rigorous imprisonment for consuming drugs at Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar district on Tuesday. The accused was Md Samed Ali, 23, sentenced at Outer Rail Crossing area of the town. Shah Zahurul Hossain, Assistant Commissioner (Land) and Executive Magistrate of the upazila said that the operation was conducted on secret ...

Cent per cent harvesting of Boro paddy has been completed in the haor areas and 53 per cent in non-haor areas in the Sylhet region. This season witnessed a bumper yield of paddy as the weather was favourable for harvesting. Additional Director of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), Sylhet, Md Mosharraf Hossain said farmers had started paddy harvesting in ...