Sylhet

Load-shedding has reached an unbearable level in Sylhet, with power cuts occurring almost every hour in the city and electricity unavailable for nearly half the day in some rural areas. The frequent outages, coupled with intense heat since yesterday, have left residents frustrated. The heat and load-shedding continued today (11 August), making it difficult for people to stay at home. ...

SYLHET, Aug 10 – The Sylhet Education Board has recorded 58.33 percent pass rate this year in the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations. According to the board result statistics, a total of 89,421 students appeared in the examination this year. Of them, 51,957 students have passed the test indicating a 10.24% fall compared to the previous year. The ...

A worker of the Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) was killed and two others were injured after being electrocuted while cleaning the roof of a mosque in the city’s Chhararpar area on Sunday noon. The deceased was identified as Naim, 20, from Shekhghat Bhangatikorpara area of the city. The injured are Apu and Al-Amin, both from the same area. The incident ...

A young man was killed allegedly in an attack over a land dispute in Habiganj on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Sohag Mia, 30, from Sundarpur village of Chunarughat upazila. According to locals and police, Sohag had been involved in a longstanding dispute with his uncle Khalil Mia over land, and the dispute had also led to legal ...

The Sylhet district administration today formed a five-member committee to investigate the cause of a head-on collision between two buses that killed nine people, including women and children, in Osmaninagar upazila. The committee, headed by Additional District Magistrate Pinky Saha, has been asked to submit its report within five working days. Its other members are representatives from the highway police, ...

At least nine people were killed and 13 others injured in a head-on collision between two passenger buses on the Dhaka–Sylhet Highway in Sylhet on Friday morning. The accident occurred at around 7:15am in the Kashikapon area of Dayamir under Osmaninagar upazila in the district, according to police. Of the nine people killed, two have been identified as Priyom, 25, ...

SYLHET, Aug 6, 2026 – A court here today sentenced a man to death for killing a four-year-old girl in Sadar upazila here this year. Judge Abu Obaida of the Sylhet Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal delivered the verdict this morning, Public prosecutor Md Badrul Ahmed Chowdhury confirmed. The convict is Zakir Hossain, 30, son of late Tota Mia, ...

SYLHET, Aug 5, 2026: Commerce, Industries, Textiles, and Jute Minister Khandakar Abdul Muktadir today said the country’s energy sector is facing its biggest challenge due to 17 years of mismanagement by the previous government, urging people to remain patient as the government works to stabilize the situation. Addressing a discussion and reception for the families of July martyrs and July ...

SYLHET, Aug 04 : Implementation of the Kumargaon- Badaghat-Airport Road construction project in Sylhet is facing an unusual delay due to land acquisition hurdles. According to officials and locals, complexities over land acquisition led to the stalemate delaying timely execution of the project taken up to upgrade the road into a four-lane one. The deadline for the important project of ...

The authorities of a private college in Sylhet on Sunday suspended a teacher for evaluating answer scripts of Higher Secondary Certificate examination while spending time with friends at a tea stall on Saturday night. Suspended Iqbal Hossain, nicknamed Sohan, is a lecturer in Bangla at Metrocity Women’s College in Shahjalal Upashahar in Sylhet city and an ex-student of Shahjalal University ...