Sylhet

The former additional deputy commissioner (ADC) of Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP) Sadeq Kawsar Dastagir has been placed on a five-day remand in a case filed over the murder of journalist ATM Turab during the recent student movement. Sylhet Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Abdul Momen passed the order on Thursday as police placed Dastagir before the court and prayed for a ...

The admission test for first year honours at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) for the 2024-2025 academic year will be held on February 28. A press release of the university confirmed this on Thursday. It says, the admission-seekers could submit their applications from January 5, 2025. The procession will continue till January 25.

International Migrants Day and National Expatriates Day were celebrated at Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar district on Wednesday. A rally and discussion were held in the afternoon under the initiative of the upazila administration to mark the day. Kulaura Upazila Nirbahi Officer Mohiuddin presided over the discussion held at the upazila parishad meeting room where Upazila Agriculture Officer Jasim Uddin, Upazila ...

Import and export activities between Bangladesh and India resumed on Tuesday (December 17) through Chatlapur Land Customs Station in Moulvibazar’s Kulaura upazila after a 21-day halt. The operations restarted with the export of 70 metric tons of fish to India, confirmed Chatlapur Customs inspector Habibur Rahman. The suspension began on November 27 following protests by Indian ISKCON workers and supporters ...

The “Fahim Al Ishaq Chowdhury Trust” has launched an initiative to award scholarships to meritorious students from grades five to eight in schools and madrasas of two upazilas in Sylhet, Zakiganj and Kanaighat, to promote education. The scholarship amounts are as follows: Tk2,500 for the Merit Grade, Tk2,000 for the First Grade, and Tk1,500 for the General Grade. Each student ...

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has seized a large consignment of smuggled Indian goods worth approximately Tk 1.5 crore from the border area of Sunamganj Sadar upazila. The operation took place on Monday morning on the Surma River. Lieutenant Colonel AKM Zakaria Kadir, commander of 28th Battalion of BGB in Sunamganj, confirmed the seizure, adding that the goods, reportedly smuggled from ...

The government has approved several projects for protecting Boro crops in the haor-dominated district of Sunamganj. Through farmer-formed Project Implementation Committees (PIC), embankments will be built and repaired with an allocated budget of approximately Tk 100 crore. On Sunday, the reconstruction and repair works for haor protection embankments in Dharmapasha, Madhyanagar, and Dowarabazar upazilas were inaugurated in separate ceremonies. In ...

Two passengers of a CNG-run autorickshaw were killed in a head-on collision with a passenger bus on the Sylhet-Dhaka highway in South Surma on Saturday. The victims, Ruhul Amin (26), son of Anjab Ullah from Islampur village in Jagannathpur, and Abdul Mukit (40), son of Abdus Sattar from Bhabanipur village in the same upazila, died on the spot. Four others, ...

Locals rescued Awami League leader Misbah Uddin Siraj from the Sagor Dighirpar area around 3:30am on Tuesday and took him to hospital after he came under attack at midnight in the city. Misbah was Awami League’s central organising secretary for three times. Sylhet metropolitan police’s additional deputy commissioner (media) Mohammad Saiful Islam confirmed the attack to saying that the police ...

Sylhet Zilla Hospital, built at a cost of approximately Tk 85 crore, remains unoccupied despite the fact that construction was completed earlier this year. The authorities have yet to assume responsibility for the 250-bed facility, delaying its opening and leaving the hospital unused over a year after its completion. Initiated in 2019, the project was inaugurated by then prime minister ...