Sylhet

Residents of Sylhet city are experiencing growing insecurity amid a surge in theft and robbery incidents over the past two months, with several cases occurring in broad daylight. According to Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP), a total of 47 cases of theft and robbery were recorded in February and March this year. Reports of muggings at gunpoint, snatching of mobile phones, ...

Two siblings drowned in a pond at Maijer Mohalla area under Baniachang upazila of the district today. The victims were identified as Sadia Akhter, 6, daughter of Liton Mia, and her younger brother Jubael Mia, 4. Local sources said the children were playing near a pond adjacent to their home. At some point, they accidentally fell into the water and ...

A 4.9-magnitude earthquake struck an area in India’s Assam province on Tuesday afternoon and the tremors were felt in Sylhet, Moulvibazar and other adjacent border districts in Bangladesh. Some reports claimed that tremors were also felt in Dinajpur. No casualties or damages were reported in either side of the border. The quake struck 11-kilometre northwest of Silchar, Assam’s second-largest city, ...

A two-month-old child died of measles this afternoon (6 April), marking the first confirmed death from the disease in the Sylhet region. The child died while undergoing treatment at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital. Brigadier General Umar Rashed Munir, director of the hospital, said the child was admitted two days ago with measles and cardiac complications. The child was ...

A fire broke out in the immigration server room at MAG Osmani International Airport in Sylhet on Sunday night. The blaze originated on the second floor of the server room around 11:35PM and was brought under control at about 12:05, according to Airport Director Hafiz Ahmed. No flights were scheduled at the time of the incident and no casualties were ...

Thousands of hectares of boro paddy in Sunamganj’s haor areas are under threat as severe waterlogging triggered by unusually heavy upstream rainfall continues to inundate croplands across the district. The situation has turned critical since the last week of March when excessive rainfall in upstream catchment areas caused rivers to swell and overflow, sending water rushing into the low-lying haors. ...

BNP Secretary General and Local Government, Rural Development & Co-operatives Minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has accused certain political groups of misleading the public by claiming that BNP does not support the July reform agenda, asserting that his party has long stood for democratic values and political freedom in the country. He made the remarks on Saturday while speaking as ...

Widespread waterlogging in the haor wetlands of Sunamganj district has submerged thousands of hectares of Boro paddy fields following days of continuous rainfall, leaving farmers fearing major crop losses and financial hardship. According to district Department of Agricultural Extension, at least 1,189 hectares of land across 12 upazilas have already gone underwater. However, farmers say the actual extent of submerged ...

Owners of CNG, LPG and petrol pumps across the Sylhet division have called off their indefinite strike, bringing an end to uncertainty triggered by the sudden halt in fuel supply. Barrister Riasad Azim Haque Adnan, acting president of the Sylhet divisional committee of the Bangladesh Petroleum Dealers, Distributors, Agents and Petrol Pump Owners Association, disclosed the decision around 2:30am today ...

Rail communication between Sylhet and the rest of the country was restored this afternoon, nearly 18 hours after several wagons of an oil-carrying train derailed near Montola Railway Station in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj. Md Abu Hanif Pasha, assistant executive engineer of Akhaura Railway Junction, confirmed the development to this correspondent. He said the derailed wagons were removed from the ...