Sylhet

The Tea Workers Association alleged that their festival bonuses due during the Fagua, also known as Red Puja, festival in the month of Phalgun, one of the main religious festivals of the tea workers, were not being paid in all the tea estates. The association demanded immediate payment of festival allowances to tea workers. Cha Sramik Sangha Moulvibazar district committee ...

Without procuring any permission from the Department of Environment, the illegal sand traders were excavating valuable silicon (Silica) sand from various places in Moulvibazar. According to sources, the Tourists’ hub Moulvibazar is also famous for the Silica sand. This precious sand is found nowhere in Bangladesh except in Moulvibazar. But, due to the inactivity of the police and the local ...

As scorching summer is knocking on the door, the number of diarrhoea patients in Sylhet has gone up steeply in the current month. According to the official data of the Sylhet divisional office of the Director of Health, on Thursday, around 118 diarrhoea patients were admitted to the hospitals in the Sylhet division. Besides, 1,212 people were admitted in one ...

A college student drowned in the pond adjacent to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Hall at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) campus on Friday. The deceased, Arnab Talukdar, 17, was a resident of Madina Markets area of Sylhet city, and son of Kritish Talukdar. Arnab was a first-year student at Shah Khurram Degree College in Sylhet, who hailed from ...

At least 25 people, including seven cops, were injured in a clash between two village groups over a trivial matter in Sadar upazila of Habiganj district on Thursday night. A motorbike and a pickup van were also vandalized during the clash. Witnesses said an altercation broke out between two youths over exhaling cigarette smoke in Dhuliakhal area under the Sadar ...

On the direction of the High Court, the plaintiff got married to one of the defendants in the women’s torture case in Moulvibazar District Jail. Imprisoned groom, Ashish Bauri is the son of Sadananda Bauri of Indanagar tea garden in Moulvibazar Rajnagar upazila. The bride Kunja Mal is the daughter of Manish Mal of the same garden. In addition to ...

The contractor concerned of the Water Development Board (WDB) had to suspend the Tk 50-million work on the site. A number of locals have feared that the district town may face severe flooding at the beginning of rainy season. Meanwhile, WDB senior officials held a meeting with water resources ministry’s secretary Nazmul Ahsan in this regard on 13 March. Officials ...

Ismail Mahmud, District Correspondent of Pratidiner Bangladesh, have been made president and Sreemangal-Komalganj representative SK Das Sumon made General Secretary of Sreemangal Reporters Club on Monday. Meanwhile, Rupom Acharjee, representative of The Daily Observer, have been elected as the treasurer of the club. The election of Sreemangal Reporters Club was held at They have been elected by a voice vote, ...

Six members of a family, including two children, were killed and four others were injured after a pick-up collided with a human hauler on Sylhet-Tamabil Highway in Darbasta area of Jaintapur upazila of Sylhet on Monday. The deceased were—Mongali Patra, 50, daughter of Santosh Patra of Chiknagul union of the upazila; Sabita Patra, wife of Nanda Patra; 6-month old Bijli, ...

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) shot a Bangladesh teenage boy to death along a border at Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar district on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Saddam, 13, son of Askir Miah, a resident of Moroichara area in the upazila. Locals said a team of the BSF shot at Saddam along Shikharia border in the afternoon while he ...