Sylhet

Two separate murder cases have been filed in Sylhet today (19 August) in connection with the deaths of journalist ATM Turab and Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) student Rudra Sen during the Anti-discrimination Student Movement. The cases were lodged at the Sylhet additional chief metropolitan court by Abul Hossain Mohammad Azrof Jabur, brother of Turab, and Hafizul Islam, ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)’s Sylhet district unit today formed a human-chain with a demand to trace BNP’s former organizing secretary M Ilias Ali, who along with his driver Ansar Ali, went missing from Dhaka’s Banani area on April 17, 2012. BNP’s Sylhet District Unit President Abdul Quiyum Chowdhury chaired the human-chain formed at Court Point in the city, reports BSS. ...

A case was filed yesterday against two men on charge of gang-raping a 12-year-old girl in a village in Habiganj’s Chunarughat upazila. The incident occurred on the night of August 12, according to the victim’s mother, who lodged the complaint with Chunarughat Police Station yesterday evening. The accused, Billal and Farhad, are from the same locality. Hillol Roy, Chunarughat Police ...

Two journalists of Somoy TV were attacked and beaten this afternoon, allegedly by a group of students demonstrating in Sylhet City. The injured were reporter Avijeet Banik Apu and cameraman Naushad Ahmed Chowdhury. According to Apu, students cordoned their motorcycle and started beating them with sticks as soon as they arrived at the city centre after the protest started around ...

A 19-year-old housewife committed suicide by hanging herself at Shantiganj upazila in Sunamganj district on Thursday. The incident happened at around 6:00 PM in Dhalagai village under Shimulbak union in the upazila. The deceased was identified as Salma Begum, wife of Soukat Miah, a resident of the area. Locals and police said that Salma hanged herself with a scarf in ...

A rumor of Awami League leader Shamim Osman staying at a resort in Moulvibazar’s Sreemangal upazila led a search operation at the hotel on Wednesday. Earlier, curious locals began to converge around the premises of the five-star hotel Grand Sultan Tea Resort and Golf in the afternoon as word spread that Shamim Osman might be staying there. Upon hearing the ...

A vacuum in local government service has been prevailing as most of the upazila (UZ) chairmen in Sylhet have remained in hiding since after the resignation of Sheikh Hasina as prime minister and her fleeing on August 5. Locals, especially the service seekers, have been suffering a lot due to the deadlock while many of the staff members in the ...

The tourism sector in Sylhet has been hit hard, suffering losses of around Tk 100 crore due to a sharp decline in visitors. This downturn is a result of the ongoing unrest from the student-led anti-discrimination movement, coupled with the devastation caused by three major floods in the region. Tourism operators in Sylhet report that the sector was completely stagnant ...

The Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP), with army assistance, have succeeded in recovering 77 pieces of firearms and 129 rounds of ammunition among the large number of weapons looted by angry mobs in the wake of Sheikh Hasina’s ouster as premier. The aforementioned number of weapons was recovered until Monday, said SMP Additional Deputy-Commissioner Mohammad Saiful Islam adding the list of ...

Employees at Sylhet Medical University have issued a stern ultimatum, demanding the removal of the Vice-Chancellor Dr Enayet Husssin, Treasurer Shah Alam, and Registrar(Adhoc)Fazlur Rahman within the next 48 hours. The employees have urged for the appointment of new officials in their place, citing widespread corruption and severe misconduct by the current administration. In a press briefing held on Monday, ...