Sylhet

SYLHET, Mar 3 : State Minister for LGRD and Cooperatives Mir Shahe Alam today said the ordinances adopted by the interim government will be placed in the Jatiya Sangsad on March 12. He said this while responding to questions from journalists after a views-exchange meeting with officials and employees of the Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) here. Shahe Alam said the ...

A consultation workshop titled ‘Community-based Awareness and Engagement for Safe, Legal and Informed Youth Migration’ was held at Hotel Metro International on 2 March 2026. The event was organised by the Institute of Development Affairs, with support from The Asia Foundation. The workshop brought together 30 participants, including 18 students, four education consultants, two guardians, two local leaders, one returnee ...

Fifteen underprivileged women in Moulvibazar have received sewing machines following a three-month free training as part of an initiative by Bashundhara Group aimed at empowering disadvantaged women and making them self-reliant. Bashundhara Shuvosangho organised the programme. Additional Deputy Commissioner (General) Md Tanvir Hossain distributed the sewing machines among the recipients at 10:30am on Sunday at Moulvibazar Circuit House. Shuvosangho’s district ...

A Bangladeshi worker was killed in an Iranian missile strike in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Saturday, as retaliatory attacks by Iran spread across the Gulf region amid the ongoing Middle East conflict. The UAE Ministry of Defense confirmed the death but did not immediately release the identity of the victim. However, multiple sources identified him as Saleh Ahmed, ...

Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Ariful Haque Chowdhury on Saturday announced that the government will soon introduce a ‘Probashi Card’ for Bangladeshi migrant workers in line with its election manifesto commitments. He also revealed that initiatives are underway to regularise the status of around 25,000 undocumented Bangladeshis currently living in Spain. Speaking to journalists at Sylhet Circuit House, according ...

Civil society representatives have demanded that 16 Garo families in Sadar Upazila, Sylhet, not be evicted without rehabilitation, as they live in fear of removal. The Garo families have been living in the Khadimnagar Union of the Upazila for 60 to 70 years. They have allegedly been threatened recently with eviction by a local housing company. Upon receiving the news, ...

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman has said that his party achieved three major gains in the recent national election and is now preparing for what he described as a “second fight” in the upcoming local government polls. Shafiqur made the remarks while speaking as the chief guest at a “Shura and Executive Council Members’ Training Camp” organised by the Sylhet ...

Thirty underprivileged women from Sreemangal and Kamalganj upazilas in Moulvibazar have received sewing machines after completing a three-month tailoring training programme aimed at making them self-reliant. The initiative was organised by the Sreemangal and Kamalganj upazila units of Bashundhara Shuvosangho. The machines were handed over at a ceremony held on Friday at the auditorium of Sreemangal Udayan Girls’ High School ...

British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Sarah Cook has said that the United Kingdom (UK) shares a deep and special relationship with Sylhet. “Sylhet’s relationship with the UK is very close because around 90 percent of Bangladeshis living in the UK are from Sylhet. Bangladesh’s ties with the UK are growing stronger day by day, largely due to Sylhet. The contribution ...

Two motorcyclists were killed and 3 others were injured in separate road accidents in Sylhet and Habiganj on Monday night. The deceased are Jasim Uddin, 18, a Class XII student of Goainghat Government College and son of Abdul Haque of Goshgram village under Goainghat upazila in Sylhet, and Payel Gop, 23, son of Bhanu Gop of Narayanpur village under Sadar ...