Sylhet

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman today called for holding trial of those involved in genocide. “Those who committed genocide must be tried to free the human society from stigma. Persons involved in forcibly disappearing people should be tried on priority basis,” he said while addressing the Jamaat workers’ conference at Sunamganj Government Jubilee High School ground here as chief guest. ...

A brick kiln was fined Tk 50,000 for damaging a road by carrying bricks at Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar district on Friday morning. The upazila administration conducted a drive, led by the Assistant Commissioner (land) and Upazila Nirbahi Magistrate Shah Jahrul Hossain, in the Duloipara area in the upazila and fined Surma Brikfiled. Shah Jahrul Hossain said that the fine ...

An allegation has been received against Debashish Chakrabarty Shipon, member of Madhabpur Union Parishad’s ward no-7 under Kamalganj upazila in Moulvibazar district, for taking money from local people in pretext of providing government houses to them. The victim, Rekha Chouhan, a resident of the union, lodged a written complaint with Kamalganj Upazila Nirbahi Officer and Officer-in-Charge of Kamalganj Police Station ...

Police have arrested four alleged smugglers and seized 40 cows while smuggling to Bangladesh through Someshwari River in Sunamganj district on Sunday. Acting on a tip-off, a law enforcers team, led by Madhyanagar Police Station officer-in-charge (OC) Md Sajib Rahman and the Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Uzzal Roy, conducted a drive on the river ghat of Chamardani union on Sunday ...

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have detained an Indian national from Juri upazila in Moulvibazar district on Monday, for illegally enter into Bangladesh. The arrested is identified as Mohammad Rahul Uddin, from Bhagyapur village no 5 under Dharmanagar Police Station Jurisdiction in Tripura, India. Being tipped-off a BGB team raided the residence of a Bangladeshi citizen approximately 100 yards inside Bangladesh’s ...

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized smuggled goods worth over Taka 5.22 crore during several raids in the Sylhet and Sunamganj border areas on Friday. Sylhet Battalion (48 BGB) Commander Lt. Col. Md Hafizur Rahman said a huge amount of smuggled goods including Indian RJ power batteries, sugar, cows, buffaloes, Clop G cream, chocolate, cumin, winter blankets, oranges, Quaker oats, fuchka, ...

The newly appointed Superintendent of Police (SP) of Habiganj held a meeting with local journalists on Wednesday. The event took place around 3 PM in the afternoon at the SP conference room. During the discussion meeting, several print and electronic media journalists greeted the newly appointed SP ANM Sajidur Rahman. Sazidur Rahman shared his future visions and assured that this ...

A man reportedly stabbed his daughter to death at his house in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj on Wednesday over mobile addiction. The deceased was Ranu Begum, 15, a resident of Ghanashyampur village of the district. Victim’s mother Saheda Begum said Ranu often found talking on mobile phone. Her husband returned home at around 2.30PM on Wednesday and saw his daughter ...

Sylhet, like many other parts of the country, is gripped by severe cold. The intensity of the cold has been further increased by bone-chilling winds and dense fog. The city has been shrouded in thick fog since early morning on Tuesday (January 22). The sun has not been visible. This has caused difficulties for hard-working people. The Sylhet Meteorological Office ...

The 46th National Science and Technology Week and Fair was inaugurated at Kamalganj upazila in Moulvibazar district on Monday. The event, under the theme “Knowledge and Science will Lead Us to Victory, We Will Become the Best in the World”, was inaugurated on Monday (January 20) at 10:30 AM in the presence of the Additional District Commissioner (Education & ICT), ...