Sylhet

In celebration of International Women’s Day, Komoli Robi Dash, a tea worker from Kanihati in Moulvibazar, received the ‘Best Joyeeta Award’ as a successful mother. The recognition was conferred on Friday in Dhaka during an event organized by the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presented Komoli with a cheque, crest, sari, and certificate. Komoli, who ...

A six-year-old child was killed and 10 others were injured in a collision between a truck and a tourist bus on the Sylhet-Tamabil highway at Jaintapur upazila in Sylhet district on Friday afternoon. The accident took place around 1pm in Umanpur area under the upazila. The deceased child was Parash, 6, son of Rasel Mia, a resident of Salihar village ...

Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Samanta Lal Sen has suspended Sylhet’s Jaintapur Family Planning Officer Rentu Purkayastha due to his absence from work. Rentu Purkayastha was not in his office when the minister visited the hospital at 10:00am on Wednesday. The minister promptly issued an order for his suspension, citing the failure to report to the workplace on time. ...

Bangla Mirror desk : To observe the holy month of Ramadan and Eid-ul-Fitr, Karim Foundation Trust has donated Tk 12 lakh in cash among 200 families of Jagannathpur upazila in Sunamganj district On the 5th March Tuesday afternoon, 6000 Taka each was handed in to 200 deprived families of Kishorpur village of Pailgaon Union, which is the village home of ...

Two youths were killed and two others injured as a pickup van rammed two motorbikes on the Sylhet-Tamabil highway at Jaintiapur upazila in Sylhet district on Tuesday night. The accident happened around 10pm in front of Jaflong Valley Boarding School in the upazila. The deceased were identified as Shihab Uddin, 22, son of Alauddin, a resident of Mokambari area under ...

A police constable died after a bus hit his motorcycle at Hilalpur in Golapganj upazila of Sylhet on Sunday morning. The deceased was Abul Hossain, 27, son of Moshahid Ali of Sheikhpara village in Zakiganj upazila. He was a constable at Bahubal Police Station in Habiganj. Masudul Amin, officer-in-charge of Golapganj Police Station , said the accident took place around ...

Two people were killed and three others injured after a truck hit a CNG-run auto rickshaw in Habiganj’s Nabiganj upazila on Sunday. The accident took place on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in in Aushkandi area in the afternoon. Deceased Akib Mia, 60, hailed from Kishoreganj’s Mithamoin upazila, and Surchand Begum, 35, was a resident of Char Katkal village in the upazila. ...

Seven people were injured after a tourist-carrying jeep overturned inside Lawachara National Park in Moulvibazar’s Kamalganj upazila on Saturday. The injured were Sanchita, 40, Milon Sarker, 40, Dipika Banik, 40, Mita Saha, 42, Tofael, 25, Hridita Saha, 13, and Uma Rani, 46. Abhijit Sarker, a passenger of the jeep, said the jeep overturned after its driver got down from it ...

Advocate Ataur Rahman Shamim, vice-president of Awami League’s (AL) Kulaura Upazila of Moulvibazar and senior lawyer of Bangladesh Supreme Court, died in a fire in a multi-storied building at Bailey Road in the capital Dhaka. Confirming his death, the deceased’s nephew Tarek Hasan said that Ataur Rahman Shamim is a resident of Sreepur village in Brahmanbazar union of Kulaura upazila. ...

Two people, including a woman, were killed and four more injured after a pickup van and a CNG-run autorickshaw collided head-on on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Dakshin Surma upazila of Sylhet on Thursday afternoon. The deceased were Nazma Begum, 43, wife of Sona Mia of Companiganj upazila of the district, and autorickshaw driver Mansur Ali, 27, son of Dhanai Mia ...