Sylhet

Three upazilas of Moulvibazar got three new leaders in the first phase of sixth upazila parishad elections held on Wednesday (May 8). Kishore Roy Chowdhury Moni, information and research secretary of Moulvibazar upazila Awami League, has been elected as chairman in Juri upazila with over 20,000 votes, while his nearest competitor, incumbent upazila chairman and member of Moulvibazar upazila Awami ...

GPH ispat Ltd has recently organised a seminar titled “Country’s only high strength and high performing steel GPH Quantum B600C-R & B600D-R: Improving earthquake resilience” in collaboration with structural engineers at Kushiara International Convention Hall in Sylhet, according to a media statement Tuesday. The seminar covered a wide range of topics, including the properties of high-strength steel, its advantages over ...

A man was killed after a streak of a lightning struck him at Kamolganj upazila in Moulvibazar district on Monday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Samuj Mia, 30, son of Sanowar Mia, a resident of Rasulpur village under Patanushar union of the upazila. Confirming the matter, Patansuhar Union Parishad chairman Ali Ahmed said Samuj was fishing when a thunderbolt ...

An elderly man was killed and eight others were injured in a head-on collision between a private car and a CNG-run auto rickshaw on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Notun Bazar area under Bahubal upazila of Habiganj district on Monday. The deceased was identified as Abdus Sobhan, 70, a resident of Sughar village in Sadar upazila. The accident occurred in the ...

A man was killed in a lightning strike in Sylhet’s Kanaighat upazila on Monday. The dead Mahtab, 45, was a resident of Bazar Darpanagar village under the upazila. Kanighat Police Station officer-in-charge (OC) Jahangir Hossain Sardar confirmed it. He said that Mahtab Uddin was going towards Haor with some of his cows. On the way, a lightning struck on him. ...

A man surrendered himself to police allegedly after killing his wife at Kamolganj upazila in Moulvibazar district on Sunday morning. The victim was Shilpi Akter, 23, wife of Safar Ali, a resident of Baghmara village under ward no-6 in the upazila sadar. According to locals, there had been a family dispute between Shilpi Akter and Safar Ali over going abroad without permission ...

At least 44 people were killed and 75 others were injured in 37 road crashes in the Sylhet division in April. Nirapad Sarak Chai (NISCHA), a voluntary social organization dedicated to ensuring safe roads, revealed this information in a statement on Saturday signed by Zahirul Islam Mishu, co-organizing secretary of the NISCHA Central Committee, member secretary of the Sylhet Divisional ...

A vegetable vendor teenage boy was stabbed to death by miscreants in Sylhet city on Friday. Deceased Mohammad Ali, 17, was son of Nur Ali, a resident of Chararpar area in the city. He used to vend vegetables in the area. Quoting eyewitnesses, Subhanighat Police Outpost sub-inspector Shamim Uddin said some miscreants surrounded the teenage boy and indiscriminately struck him ...

The pineapple farmers of Sylhet region have expressed happiness with the bumper production of its early varieties and high prices amid the ongoing sultry summer heat. Farmers have got a good output of the early varieties of pineapple as the weather was good in Moulvibazar and its nearby districts this year, according to official sources. The farmers are witnessing good ...

Five private car passengers were killed after a collision with a truck in Habiganj’s Madhabpur upazila early Thursday. Of the deceased, four were the members of a same family. They met the tragic accident while returning home in Dhaka from Sylhet, it was learnt. The deceased were Jamal Mridha, 42, and his brother Khokon Mridha, 35, Jamal’s wife Kamrun Nahar, ...