Sylhet

A three-day-long national fruit fair was held at Chunarughat upazila in Habiganj district on Thursday. The fair was organised by upazila Department of Agricultural Extension at their office premises with a slogan like “Eat more local fruits, let’s plant fruit trees.” The fair was inaugurated by Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Md Robin Mia and was presided over by Chunarughat upazila ...

Three persons including a woman and her son were killed and dozens injured in separate road accidents in Sylhet today. The accidents took place at Sreerampur under Moglabazar police station on the Sylhet-Zakiganj road and at the Union Office Bazar of Zakiganj on the same road. Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Zakiganj Police Station Zahirul Islam Munna said a microbus carrying a ...

Stone-related businessmen and workers in Sylhet have placed three key demands, including the immediate reopening of closed stone quarries. The demands were announced at a press conference held today (18 June) by the Sylhet District Stone-Related Businessmen Owners-Workers Unity Council. Speaking at the event, the organisation’s spokesperson Shabbir Ahmed Fayez presented a written statement, outlining their demands including immediate reopening ...

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in different drives seized smuggled goods and drugs worth about Taka 43 lakh in Sylhet and Sunamganj borders in the early hours of today. Different units of Sylhet BGB Battalion (48 BGB) conducted the drives at Banglabazar, Sonalichela, Kalasadek, Bichnakandi, Utma, Tamabil and Sreepur BOPs under the Sylhet BGB Battalion of Sylhet and Sunamganj districts and ...

Two alleged smugglers were held in an operation at Kamolganj upazila in Moulvibazar district on Monday night. The arrested were identified as Mukit Mia, 48 of Tilagarh village and Towahir Mia, 47 of Monohorpur village in the upazila. According to police, acting on a tip-off, a team of police led by SI Mithun Roy conducted a raid near Kathaltali bridge ...

Over 150 individuals, including leaders of the Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal and Chhatra Dal, youth and student fronts of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, have been sued on charge of staging a demonstration blocking the car of two advisers of the interim government in Sylhet on Saturday. Gowainghat police station officer-in-charge Sarker Tofayel Ahmed said that sub-inspector of the police station Obayed Ullah ...

Power connections to 25 stone crushers in Dhopagul area of Sadar upazila in Sylhet district have been severed. A taskforce committee conducted the drive on Monday, two days after the incident of blocking the motorcade of two government advisers in protest against the decision to permanently ban stone extraction leases in Sylhet’s Jaflong area. The taskforce committee, comprising police, Rab ...

A bus driver and his assistant raped a college student inside a bus belonging to ‘Maa Enterprise’ in Habiganj’s Nabiganj upazila on Sunday night. Police and Bangladesh Army personnel, however, managed to detained bus driver Md Sabbir Miah from the spot. But the helper of the bus, Liton Miah, fled the scene. Confirming the incident, Nabiganj Police Station OC Sheikh ...

A man was killed and another one injured in a head-on collision between a motorcycle and an auto-rickshaw at Gowainghat upazila in Sylhet on Sunday afternoon. The incident occurred in the Soti area of Lengura union on Gowainghat-Bangabir road under the upazila. The deceased was identified as Nazim Uddin, 25, son of late Fattah Miah of Manaura village in the ...

A man was killed in a lightning strike while trying to chase cattle away from a grassy field near his home at Kakailchao union under Azmiriganj upazila in Habiganj district on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Alamgir Mia, 40, son of Quddus Mia from Ghardai village in the upazila. According to locals, Alamgir was struck by lightning during rainfall ...