Sylhet

A court in Dhaka on Monday imposed a travel ban on Mohammad Enamul Haque, the commissioner of Sylhet Customs, Excise and VAT Commissionerate, in a case filed for amassing illegal wealth. Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Mohammad Ash-Shams Jaglul Hossain passed the order following an application lodged by the anti-graft body. Earlier on July, the court ordered to seize the immovable ...

At least 25 people were injured after a passenger bus overturned on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway at South Surma upazila of Sylhet district in the early hours of Monday. The accident occurred around 5:30 am in front of the APBn-7 office in Lalabazar area under the upazila. Citing locals, media officer of APBn-7 ASI Mohammad Pabel said the Sylhet-bound bus from ...

A pregnant woman was killed and four people were critically injured as a pickup and a CNG run auto-rickshaw collided head-on on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway under Shayesthaganj upazila in Habiganj district on Saturday night. The accident took place at 10 pm at Sutang bridge area under the upazila. The deceased was identified as Mitu Akhter, 24, wife of Swapan Mia, hailed from ...

Despite flood waters starting to recede slowly again, the suffering of the people of Sylhet has reached extreme levels, especially in parts where the flooding has been constant since late May, coming in successive spells that allowed for no recovery from the previous one. The fresh spell of flooding, that was the third in the space of five weeks with no ...

Police arrested a young man in a case filed over raping a 11-year-old child from Dowarabazar upazila in Sunamganj district on Friday night. The arrested man is Tofazzal, 22, a resident of Lakshmipur village under Lakshmipur union in the upazila. Earlier, at 12:00 noon on Wednesday (July 3) Tofazzal went to the girl’s house and raped the victim as there ...

Academic activities came to a halt at about 500 educational institutions of mostly primary and secondary levels across Sylhet as the third wave of flooding hit the district this year. Moreover, the unprecedented flooding caused damage to roads, agriculture, and fisheries in the northeastern district of Bangladesh but the education sector has been hardest hit. Some school buildings have been ...

A court in Dhaka has ordered the authorities concerned to attach a senior customs official’s nine-storeyed house at Bashundhara, two apartments and three commercial spaces in the capital. Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Mohammad Ash Shams Jaglul Hossain passed the order, allowing a plea of the investigation officer and the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) deputy director Farzana Yasmin to attach the properties ...

The flood situation has improved in the riverine areas of the seven Upazilas of Moulvibazar, but the water has yet to recede in the Haor region of the district. Extreme misery has shrouded the lives of the people living on the banks of the wetlands in the Hakaluki Haor region’s Kulaura, Juri, and Barlekha Upazilas. The floodwater has also made ...

Heavy rainfall triggered by active monsoon submerged much of two northeastern districts Sylhet and Sunamganj creating havoc for the people in rural areas as the two districts witnessed third spell of flood within one month. As monsoon has arrived early impacted by cyclone Rimel, the fresh round of flood inundated vast areas of several districts of the country, officials and ...

People in the northeastern region of the country were witnessing a flood for the third time, exactly within one month. “Northern regions of Bangladesh and some states of India have witnessed torrential rainfall as monsoon are set early impacted by cyclone Rimel, resulting in floods for the third time in Sylhet and Sunamganj,” said FFWC Executive Engineer Sardar Udoy Raihan. ...