Sylhet

State-owned Sylhet Gas Fields Limited has taken an initiative to drill three new gas and oil wells as part of efforts to ease the country’s gas shortage and reduce dependence on costly imports of liquefied natural gas. The wells – Rashidpur-13, Dupitila-1 and Kailashtila-9 – are expected to add 3 crore cubic feet of gas per day to the national ...

Obaidullah, Sub-Inspector (Unarmed) In-charge of Shrepur Police Outpost has been elected as the best Sub-Inspector (SI) of Moulvibazar district for the month of June 2026. He received the distinction for his professional success and remarkable efficiency. Moulvibazar District Superintendent of Police (SP) Md. Monirul Islam handed over the appreciation certificate to him on July 15. According to police sources, several ...

The Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) has warned that short-term flood conditions are likely to occur in some districts of the north and north-east within the next 24 to 72 hours. At the same time, the agency has also said that the river water may reach the warning level in some districts of the Brahmaputra-Yamuna basin between July 20 ...

Indiscriminate sand extraction from areas outside the designated lease boundary is threatening more than 25 villages along the Surma River in Sylhet’s Zakiganj and Kanaighat upazilas, according to local residents. Villagers alleged that large quantities of sand were being extracted illegally using hydraulic dredgers, causing severe riverbank erosion and putting homes, farmland, roads, markets, schools, mosques and flood-control embankments at ...

Police have arrested a man in connection with the alleged gang rape of a 36-year-old woman in Sylhet’s Bishwanath upazila after a CNG-run autorickshaw driver allegedly took her to a house instead of her destination, where she was allegedly gang-raped by a group of men. The woman filed a case with Bishwanath Police Station yesterday (15 July), naming four men ...

Habiganj Correspondent : Three young men were killed and two others critically injured in a head-on collision involving three motorcycles in the Ajmiriganj upazila of Habiganj on Thursday. The injured have been sent to Sylhet in critical condition. The accident took place around 6:30pm near the Jalsukha Bridge area on the under-construction Ajmiriganj-Shalla regional highway under Jalsukha union on Thursday ...

Moulvibazar Correspondent : Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained six Bangladeshi nationals, including a child, while they were attempting to illegally cross into India through the Muraichhara border in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar. The detainees were later handed over to Kulaura Police Station. A case under the Passport Act has been filed against five of them. According to BGB and police sources, ...

Passengers travelling between Dhaka and Sylhet are set to benefit from a new non-stop intercity train service, with the government approving the launch of the “Tanguar Express” to ease growing demand on the busy route. Railways Minister Sheikh Rabiul Alam told parliament on Wednesday that the prime minister had approved the introduction of one pair of non-stop intercity trains on ...

Sreemangal Battalion (46 BGB) has distributed free medical services, essential medicines, water purification tablets, and cooked food among hundreds of flood-affected border residents in Kamalganj upazila of Moulvibazar. The humanitarian program was organized on Wednesday (July 15) at the Kurmachhara Government Primary School ground under the jurisdiction of Mokabil BOP in the upazila. Sreemangal Battalion Commander Lieutenant Colonel Sarkar Asif ...

Habiganj Correspondent : The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has deployed drones to deliver relief to people stranded in remote, waterlogged villages in the flood-hit haor region of Habiganj. Alongside boat-based operations, drones have been used to air-drop dry food and cash assistance to areas inaccessible due to flooding, BGB officials said. The operation began yesterday in several villages under Sujatpur ...