Sylhet

Teachers, employees and students of Sylhet Metropolitan University formed a human chain on Sunday in the city demanding immediate arrest and punishment to culprits who attacked on university’s cultural programme. The human chain was formed in front of the Central Shaheed Miner at Chouhatta area around 10:30am. Speakers on the human chain demanded immediate arrest and punishment to the attackers. ...

The markets in the Sylhet are flooded with various substandard and spurious medicines, pushing the people into a massive healthcare crisis. According to sources, the reckless sale of such medicines and their consumption by unaware patients are causing serious harm to public health. There are a number of fake pharmaceutical companies engaged in producing adulterated and spurious medicines which are ...

The entire traffic system virtually collapsed in the Sylhet on Monday, triggering indescribable sufferings to the commuters, especially office-goers and students. Thousands of vehicles, mostly passenger bus, private car, three-wheeler and slow-moving rickshaw, got stranded in gridlock on different streets. Rail Gate, Khinbridge Point, Surma point, Bondor Bazar, Mira Bazar, Barut Khana, Darga gate, Rikabi bazar, and Shobid bazar areas ...

At least fourteen hundred female residential students of the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) have been suffering badly from water crisis since Tuesday evening. The problem at two female halls appeared on the day when a motor, which is used to supply water to these halls discharging from underground, got burnt. Meanwhile, the final examinations at different departments ...

A case has been lodged against 13 activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and one arrested in connection with an attack on a cultural event at Sylhet Metropolitan City. Officer- in-Charge of the Kotwali Model police station Sohel Ahmed endorsed the information to The journalist. The arrested BCL activist is Pritom Chakrabarty, the police official said. Injured Metropolitan University student ...

Police recovered decomposed body of an auto-rickshaw driver from the Mohasingh river near Dabor Bridge in Pagla union of Dakkhin Sunamganj upazila on Saturday noon, six days after he went missing. The deceased was identified as Iqbal Hossain, 23, son of Chhalik Mia, resident of Rupia village of Balaganj upazila of Sylhet district. Locals spotted his floating body near the ...

One person was killed and six others were injured in separate incidents of lightning strikes in the different places of Goinghat upazila on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Ayub Ali,43, son of late Samar Ali of Purba Dighirpar village while the injured were Imam Uddin,35, Gias,18, Jabbar,35, Aftar,45, Jamir,45, and Khaled,48, residents of Hatirpara village of the upazila. Locals ...

A child drowned in a pond at Syedpur village in Sadar upazila on Saturday. The victim was identified as Roni, 3, son of Bobi Hossain, a resident of the village. Family sources said Roni slipped into the pond while he was playing beside around 2pm. After being rescued by the local people, he died on his way to local hospital. ...

A bumper production of Boro paddy could not bring smile on farmers’ faces in the Sylhet district as they are not getting fair prices of their produce. Hundreds of farmers are now worried about falling prices of the paddy which, they claimed, have dipped below almost half of production cost at the outset of the new season. According to field ...

A drought-like situation has been prevailing in the region, especially in its vast barind tract, for the last couple of days affecting the normal life badly, According to the sources concerned, the ongoing scorching heat and sultry weather have been posing a serious threat to the overall public health, especially coupled with acute water crisis in the 12 upazilas of ...