Sylhet

A moderate earthquake of 5.6-magnitude was felt in Sylhet and parts of the country, including the capital, at 11:36 am on Wednesday (March 5). Shah Md Sajib Hossain, meteorologist at Sylhet weather office said the tremor was originated near the India-Myanmar border area. The epicenter of the earthquake was 449 kilometers away from the capital Dhaka. However, no causalities were ...

A trader was crushed under a train at Kamalganj upazila in Moulvibazar district on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Mohorom Mia, 60, son of late Sanaullah, a resident of Changoan village under Hazipur union in the upazila. He was a trader at Pirer bazar in the upazila. Local sources said the Sylhet-bound Intercity Paharika Express train from Chattogram hit ...

Police have arrested two people in connection with kidnapping and raping an ethnic woman in Companiganj upazila of Sylhet. The arrestees were identified as Pradeep Das, son of Lalit Das of Kalairag village of Companiganj, and Ala Uddin, son of Abdul Hashim of the same village. Confirming the matter, Companiganj Police Station Officer-in-Charge Uzayer Al Mahmud Adnan said the victim ...

Police arrested six people including the leader of an inter-district robber gang at Shantiganj upazila in Sunamganj. The robber gang leader Mortuz Ali, 38, was arrested from Ganiganj Bazar under Patharia union under Shantiganj Police Station around 7:30 pm on Sunday. Based on the information given by him during the police interrogation, five more people were arrested during the raid ...

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized various types of Indian smuggled goods worth over Tk 17.29 lakh from different frontier areas of the district early Saturday. Confirming the matter, Sunamganj BGB-28 battalion commander Lt Col AKM Zakaria Kadir said that a team of RAB, acting on a tip off, conducted drives at different places including Laurgarh, Charagaon, Banshtala, Bangaon, ...

Police recovered the body of an unidentified youth from Sylhet Railway Station on Saturday. Railway authorities spotted the body near the public toilet of the station and informed the police around 4:00 PM. Later, a police team arrived at the scene and recovered the body, said Sylhet Railway Police Station Sub-inspector (SI) Md Mehedi Hasan Khan. The cause of the ...

Detectives of the narcotics control department arrested two brothers, including a former union parishad member, along with 50,000 yaba tablets at Jakiganj upazila in Sylhet Thursday morning. The arrested are former UP member Abdul Mukit, 55, of Uttarkul village at Barothakuri union in Jakiganj upazila, and his younger brother Abdul Kadir, 48, NCD officials said. Assistant director of the narcotics ...

A Moulvibazar court on Thursday convicted seven people and sentenced them to life imprisonment for killing a man in 2021. Moulvibazar District and Session Judge Khadem Ul Kayes handed down the punishment. The lifers are-Riad Mia, Rabindra Deb, Joynal Abedin, Ikram Uddin, Sabuj Mia, Jalal Mia and Masud Ahmed. The court also fined Tk 20,000 each, in default, to suffer ...

Four houses and a grocery shop were completely gutted in a fire that broke out at Shantiganj upazila in Sunamganj district on Wednesday. The incident occurred at Joysiddhi village under West Birgaon union in the upazila. According to victims, the fire resulted a damage of over Tk 10 lakh. According to witnesses, the fire originated from a kitchen of a ...

Four individuals have been sentenced to death on the charge of attempting to frame another person after killing a woman at Nabiganj upazila in Habiganj district in 2014. Habiganj Additional District and Session Judge AKM Kamal Uddin delivered the verdict in the absence of four convicts. The condemned convicts are Al Amin of Madanpur village, Sadar Alki, of Manayanagar, Taj ...