Sylhet

Candidates in the six parliamentary constituencies of Sylhet are significanty dependeing on donations and loans from expatriates and relatives to carry out their election campaigns in the 13th national election shcheduled for February 12, reveal their nomination papers and expenditure data. Upon being an expatriate-dominated region, Sylhet has many expatriate candidates naturally. When elections come, even those who are not ...

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-9) arrested a suspected drug peddler along with Phensedyl from Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj district on Tuesday night. The arrested was identified as Rabbani Ahmed, 30, a resident of Hemu Belupara in Jaintapur upazila of Sylhet district. Acting on a tip-off, a team of RAB officials from Shayestaganj Camp conducted a drive at around 10:25 PM in ...

A mobile court on Tuesday sentenced a man to one month of imprisonment for illegally using irrigation to dry up a wetland and catch fish at Dharmapasha upazila in Sunamganj district on Tuesday. The verdict was delivered around 10:00 AM by Assistant Commissioner (Land) and Executive Magistrate Sonjoy Ghosh. The convicted person has been identified as Islam Uddin, 27, son ...

A 20-year-old youth who was shot during a clash with members of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Jaintapur upazila of Sylhet has died. Md Atiq Ahmed succumbed to his injuries while undergoing treatment at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital around 5:30pm on Monday, said Mohammad Mahbubur Rahman Mollah, officer-in-charge of Jaintapur Model Police ...

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-9) has recovered nine abandoned airguns from different locations in Moulvibazar district on Sunday night. Acting on a tip-off, a team of RAB officials conducted a drive around 10:15 PM in a banana garden adjacent to Katabil Bosti road in Adampur union of Kamalganj upazila and recovered five airguns abandoned in bushes inside the banana garden. In ...

A court here today sent eight officials and employees of Sylhet Medical University to jail in connection with an Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) case over alleged irregularities in appointments. Sylhet Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court Judge Munshi Abdul Majid passed the order after rejecting their bail petitions. The officials who were sent to jail are Procurement Officer Abdul Munim, Section Officers Rinku ...

Students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) on Saturday resumed protests demanding the election of the university’s central students’ union (SUCSU), announcing a complete shutdown of all academic and administrative activities until the polls are held. Protest leaders said the shutdown would take effect from Sunday and continue until the SUCSU election takes place. The announcement was made ...

Police recovered an abandoned grenade from beside a residential house in Kamalganj upazila of Moulvibazar district on Saturday morning. The grenade was recovered beside the house of Sultan Mia, a CNG auto-rickshaw driver, at Shri Surya Noagaon village under Patanushar union in the upazila. According to locals, a local farmer spotted the grenade while cutting grass and informed Patanushar union ...

Boro paddy farmers have been busy transplanting saplings in northeastern Sylhet in a race to complete this phase of cultivation within January. An official at the Office of the Additional Director, DAE, Sylhet Region, said on Tuesday that farmers in non-haor region would finish the transplantation in a week while the phase has already been completed in the haor areas. ...

‘Past elections were a mockery, protect your vote’ BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman on Thursday addressed a massive election rally in Shayestaganj upazila of Habiganj district, criticizing past elections as a mockery of democracy and urging citizens to safeguard their voting rights. He pledged that a BNP-led government would prioritize employment, social welfare and support for farmers and religious leaders while ...