Sylhet

A Sunamganj court has sentenced three individuals to life imprisonment for gang-raping a young woman in Chhatak upazila of Sunamganj district on Monday. Judge Muhammad Habibullah of Sunamganj Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal delivered the verdict. The convicts are Motiur Rahman Matin, Dildar Hossain and Billal Hossain, all residents of Chhatak upazila. According to the case details, on August ...

Hawkers in Sylhet staged a sit-in, blocking the busy road in front of Sylhet Nagar Bhaban on Sunday to demand an immediate end to harassment against them and approval to sit on the city streets with their businesses. Hundreds of street vendors arrived in small processions from across the city chanting slogans in favour of their demands, and began the ...

A grandmother was stabbed to death after she tried to stop a group of armed assailants from forcibly abducting her 14-year-old granddaughter around 3am on Friday in Sylhet’s Goainghat upazila. The incident took place around 3am on Friday in the Birmongol Haor village under Rustampur union. Police recovered the body from the scene at around 10am the following morning. According ...

Bangladesh Police Headquarters has withdrawn Moulvibazar’s newly appointed Superintendent of Police (SP), Md. Riazul Islam, only seven days after he assumed office, according to an official order issued on Friday. The withdrawal order, signed by Inspector General of Police (IGP) Md. Ali Hossain Fakir on May 15, instructed Riazul Islam to hand over his responsibilities to a senior district police ...

A student of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), who went missing from Bichhanakandi in Gowainghat upazila of Sylhet, was found dead after about five hours on Friday. Deceased, Shanto Bonik, was a student of the Petroleum and Mining Engineering (PME) department from the 2023-24 academic session. He hailed from Thakurgaon district. University Proctor Professor Md Mokhlesur Rahman confirmed ...

Transport workers in the Sylhet Division have announced an indefinite work stoppage from 6am on May 19, demanding the withdrawal of what they say are false cases filed against several leaders of the Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation. The decision was taken at an emergency meeting of the federation’s Sylhet divisional committee yesterday night (14 May). Leaders said the cases ...

Pubali Bank has inaugurated the “Pubali Bank Green Lounge” at Osmani International Airport, Sylhet (Domestic Terminal). The opening of the lounge is part of its “continued commitment to delivering customer-centric, modern and premium banking services”, the bank said in a press release on Thursday. Pubali Bank Director Rumana Sharif, Director Rana Laila Hafiz and Managing Director and CEO Mohammad Ali ...

Moulvibazar Correspondent : An indefinite strike on three major routes linking Habiganj, Moulvibazar and Sylhet entered a second day today after talks between rival transport owners’ associations failed to resolve an escalating dispute, leaving thousands of passengers stranded. Bus services on the Habiganj-Moulvibazar-Sylhet routes were suspended after an emergency meeting of the Habiganj District Motor Owners Group around 10:30pm yesterday. ...

A teenager was killed after his motorcycle lost control and crashed into a roadside tree at Shantiganj upazila of Sunamganj district on Monday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Nirob Mia,15, son of Tajul Islam from Islampur village. His cousin, Saiful Islam,15, sustained serious injuries in the accident. According to police, the duo had borrowed their uncle’s motorcycle to go ...

Sylhet authorities have set an ambitious target to plant 10 lakh saplings in a single day as part of a nationwide environmental and water management initiative. Administrator of Sylhet City Corporation, Abdul Qayyum Chowdhury, said the government has undertaken large-scale canal excavation and tree plantation programs as priority projects. He made the remarks at a meeting held on Sunday at ...