Sylhet

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Sunamganj unit has suspended a leader of Madhyanagar upazila unit BNP and served him a show-cause notice over his alleged involvement in seizing a houseboat forcibly. The suspended leader Mominul Haque Benu, was a joint convener of Madhyanagar upazila unit BNP. In a letter issued on Tuesday, signed by district BNP convener Kalim Uddin Ahmed Milon ...

A man has been accused of pouring petrol onto the body of his nine-month pregnant wife and lighting her on fire over a “domestic row” in Sylhet’s Kanaighat Upazila. The baby was stillborn while the housewife received treatment at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital on Sunday. The husband was detained from Choripara village in the Upazila’s Satbank Union on ...

After a suspension of over two months, arrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines resumed its direct flights on the Sylhet-Manchester route. Biman’s BG-788 flight departed from Sylhet Osmani International Airport for Manchester at 12:50 pm on Monday with 193 passengers on board, said Biman station manager Shakil Ahmed. The resumption has brought relief among UK-bound expatriates many of whom had feared the ...

A youth was allegedly stabbed to death in Sylhet city on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Dinar Ahmed Rumon, 22, son of Taklis Ahmed of Dakshin Surma upazila of the district. Rumon was a staff of a tea shop. According to locals, a man entered the hotel and asked tea. The man engaged into a heated argument with ...

About 4,000 people, including a leader of Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal, were sued on Friday over the death of an ambulance driver on July 7 during a clash between inhabitants of two villages under Nabiganj upazila in Habiganj. Nabiganj police station officer-in-charge Sheikh Md Kamruzzaman said on Saturday that Salma Khatun, wife of deceased Faruk Miah of Purba Timirpur village of ...

A Bangladeshi national named Shafiqul Islam, 45, has been shot dead by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) at the Doarabazar border in Sunamganj. The BSF opened fire, targeting alleged cattle smugglers. Shafiqul hailed from Bhanga Para village under Laxmipur union of the upazila. The incident took place at around 1am on Saturday. Lieutenant Colonel Zakaria Kadir, commanding officer of Sunamganj ...

 Sunamganj Correspondent : In Sunamganj-1 constituency, prospective candidates from the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami are intensifying their grassroots campaigns ahead of the country’s next parliamentary election, tentatively expected by February 2026. The surge in political activity follows reports of a meeting in London between interim government chief adviser Dr Muhammad Yunus and BNP’s acting chairman Tarique Rahman, which has strengthened speculation ...

Four workers died and another fell sick allegedly due to toxic gas inhalation while working inside a septic tank at Harinchhara Tea Garden in Sreemangal upazila of Moulvibazar district on Wednesday night. The deceased were identified as Rana Nayek, 17, Shrabon Nayek, 19, Krishna Rabidas, 20, and Nipen Fulmali, 27 – all workers of Harinchhara Tea Garden under Finlay Tea ...

Academic preparation was hampered by last year’s July uprising, contributing to a nationwide decline in SSC pass rates, said Sylhet Education Board Chairman Md Anwar Hossain Chowdhury today (10 July), as he explained the significant drop in his board’s results. According to results published today, the board’s pass rate dropped to 68.57% from 73.35% in 2024. The number of GPA-5 ...

Local people handed over a local leader Awami League, which is currently banned from running its activities, to the police after confining him in Sylhet early Wednesday. The AL leader, Pradip Roy, is the party’s Derai upazila unit general secretary and former chairman of the Derai upazila parishad in Sunamganj, according to the police. Jalalabad police officer-in-charge Mohammad Harunur Rashid ...