Sylhet

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 ...

Police arrested six fugitives with arrest warrants at Shantiganj upazila Sunamganj district on Sunday. A team of Shantiganj Police Station conducted an operation in different areas across the upazila and arrested them. The arrested individuals are Amir Uddin, 39, from Joykolos village under Joykolos Union; Abdur Rup,44, from Gazinagar village under Patharia Union; Abdul Kadir, 31, and Abdur Rob, 48; ...

An alleged youth was arrested over a child murder case at Kamalganj upazila in Moulvibazar district on Saturday. The arrested youth is Dibas Rangot, a resident of Shamser Nagar union under the upazila. He has been arrested after 17 days of the incident. According to the case statement, the accused and another man trying to rape a 10-year old girl ...

At least 25 people were injured in a clash between of two groups of villagers at Shantiganj upazila in Sunamganj district on Saturday. The incident occurred over organising a traditional event around 10:00 AM at Thakurbhog village field under Birgaon union in the upazila Locals said that Nur Miah of Thakurbhog village locked in an altercation with Sufi Miah and ...

Police recovered the body of a 50-year-old man from a residential hotel in Sylhet’s sadar upazila on Thursday afternoon. The body of Shamsul Alam, a resident of Mirpur-12 in Dhaka, was recovered from Lalbazar area in the upazila. Confirming the matter, Kotwali Model Police Station Officer-in-Charge Md Ziaul Haque said that Shamsul had arrived in Sylhet for business purposes on ...

Police on Wednesday arrested an Awami League leader from Sunamganj’s Shantiganj upazila as part of the nationwide Operation Devil Hunt. The arrested, Nur Alam, 42, son of Abdul Wahab Mia, a resident of Tehkia village in the upazila, is the general secretary of Patharia Union Parishad AL. Shantiganj Police Station officer-in-charge Akram Ali Khan confirmed the matter and said that ...