Sylhet

Anxious days are returning for farmers in the haor areas of Sunamganj as work on crop protection dams remains sluggish, even three weeks after the official deadline for starting construction passed. Although construction has begun in some haors, the overall pace has been slow, fuelling frustration among farmers who depend on the timely completion of embankments to protect their Boro ...

A schoolgirl, who went missing in Sylhet on Sunday, was rescued from Sreemangal upazila in Moulvibazar on Tuesday night and two teenagers were arrested for their involvement in this incident. The arrested, Al Amin Hasan, 18, and Mahi Ahmed Nayan, 18, are residents of Moulvibazar town, police said. Sylhet Metropolitan Police additional deputy commissioner Mohammad Saiful Islam told that a ...

The Election Inquiry and Judicial Committee has served a show-cause notice on BNP-nominated candidate of Habiganj-1 constituency, Reza Kibria, for allegedly violating the electoral code of conduct. The notice was issued today by committee chairman and Civil Judge Md Saidur Rahman following complaints that Reza engaged in campaigning before the official allocation of electoral symbols. According to the complaints, Reza, ...

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB-55) seized 14 kg of hemp from the border area of Chunarughat upazila in Habiganj district on Monday evening. Indian ganja worth about Tk 49,000 during an operation in a border area of. Acting on a tip-off, a special patrol team from Satchhari BOP took position around 300 yards inside Bangladeshi territory at Satchhari Tea Garden on ...

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB-46) seized a large quantity of smuggled Indian leaf cigarettes worth Tk 2.7 lakh from Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar district early Tuesday. Acting on a tip-off, a team of BGB officials conducted a drive in the Lalarchak area adjacent to the border and recovered a large unclaimed consignment, totalling 5400 packs of cigarettes worth Tk 2.7 lakh ...

The members of the Rapid Action Battalion recovered 11 airguns from a bush of a tea garden under Shrimangal upazila in Moulvibazar on Sunday night. RAB-9 media officer KM Shahidul Islam Sohag said that a team of the battalion, acting on secret information, conducted a drive at Satgaon of Satgaon Tea Garden under the upazila at around 8:00pm on Sunday. ...

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-9) recovered four air guns along with ammunition from Kamalganj upazila of Moulvibazar district early Sunday. Acting on a tip-off, a RAB-9 operational team conducted a search in a bamboo grove inside a mahogany garden around 1:15 AM in the Kamudpur area under Alinagar union in the upazila. During the search, they found four air guns wrapped ...

An elderly woman was killed after being hit by a pickup van in Kamalganj upazila of Moulvibazar district on Sunday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Durjoy Shabdokar, 75, a resident of Surandpur village under Munshibazar union in the upazila. According to sources, the accident occurred around 4:30 PM in the Thakur Bazar area on the Kamalganj–Munshibazar road when a ...

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB-55) seized smuggled Indian cumin worth approximately Tk 24.75 lakh from Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj district early Sunday. Acting on a tip-off, a team of BGB officials took up a strategic position at the Jagdishpur Muktijoddha Chattar area in the upazila, about four kilometres inside Bangladesh from the border. At around 5:00 AM, they signalled a sand-laden ...

Mahdi Hasan, member secretary of Students Against Discrimination in Habiganj, was granted bail on Sunday morning, after around 14 hours’ of detention. Mahadi was shown arrested on Saturday night on charge of obstructing police to perform their duties. Meanwhile, leaders and activists of the SAD staged protests on the court premises, demanding his release. Police, army personnel and members of ...