Sylhet

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) detained five drug peddlers with 1,937 bottles of phensedyl from Sylhet’s Companiganj upazila early Sunday. The detainees are Imam Uddin, 35, son of late Najib Ali, son of deceased Tera Mia, 35, son of late Tara Mia, Mosaid, 40, son of late Ataul, Md Raihan Ahmed, 18, son of Md Taj Uddin, and Jahangir ...

Police recovered the body of an elderly man, who had been missing since Thursday (October 10), from a canal at Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar district on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Jori Miah, 85, a resident of West Madhobpur village under Baramchal union in the upazila. It was learnt that Jori Miah went to the local market on ...

Gowainghat (Sylhet) Correspondent : A 25-year-old tourist drowned while swimming in the Piyain River near the zero point in Sylhet Jaflong today (12 October). The deceased, Ahmed Jawad, was the son of Dr Aftab Uddin and a resident of Nahar Road in Mymensingh. His body was recovered around 2:30 pm from an area near a waterfall. Sarkar Tofail, officer-in-charge of ...

Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman has stated that the credit for the August 5 mass uprising does not belong to any political party, but rather to the students and the people. He remarked that the nation has been freed from fascism through the bloodshed and sacrifices of the youth and the general public. “We seek to earn the genuine love ...

Sylhet Division was separated from the Chattogram Division three decades ago, yet Bangladesh Railway has never established a divisional office in Sylhet disrupting desired services. After the separation offices of various government ministries and departments have been set up in Sylhet only except for the railway. Amid such conditions, the railway services in Sylhet are being completely controlled by the ...

Police recovered the body of a former additional secretary of the Ministry of Industries from a resort in Srimangal in Moulvibazar on Thursday morning. The deceased Salahuddin Mahmud was serving as the deputy managing director general of the SME Foundation under the Ministry of Industries. Srimangal police station Officer-in-Charge Aminul Islam said that Salahuddin had been attending programmes in Moulvibazar ...

A Dhaka court on Thursday send former Member of Parliament from Sunamganj-5 Mohibur Rahman Manik to jail in a case over the attack on a student during the mass uprising. Judicial Magistrate Alamgir Hossain passed the order after Manik was produced before the court in the morning, said officer-in-charge (OC) of Sunamganj Sadar police station Nazmul Haque. Defense lawyer Abdul ...

Sunamganj Correspondent : Former planning minister and Sunamganj-3 MP MA Mannan has received bail. Judge Hemayet Uddin of the Sunamganj District and Sessions Court accepted the bail petition by the defence on Wednesday afternoon, said the Awami League leader’s lawyer Shafiqul Islam. A bail hearing for Mannan had previously been held at 11am but was interrupted when lawyers from both ...

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Tuesday evening arrested former Awami League lawmaker for Sunamganj-5 constituency Mohibur Rahman Manik from Bashundhara residential area in Dhaka. The RAB in a press release confirmed it to the media. The RAB said that he was arrested in a case filed with the Sunamganj sadar over attacking students and people during the students-led mass uprising. ...

Former Planning Minister and ex-MP of Sunamganj-3 constituency, MA Mannan, has been transferred to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital from Sylhet Central Jail for medical treatment. He was brought to the hospital under tight security around 10:30am on Tuesday and admitted after undergoing initial tests. Sakhawat Hossain Rubel, the Superintendent of Sylhet Central Jail, said that Mannan was taken ...