Sylhet

Transport workers in Sylhet withdrew their indefinite strike on Wednesday afternoon, after nine and a half hours. The decision came after the transport workers’ leaders held a meeting with Sylhet’s deputy commissioner and the city mayor at the district administration’s conference hall on Wednesday afternoon. They called the indefinite strike from 6am on Wednesday to press home their five-point demand, ...

Transport workers in Sylhet have been on indefinite strike from 6am on Wednesday to press home their five-point demand, including an end to the gas crisis. The strike will be observed till further notice. No long-route transports were found to leave Sylhet. People, especially SSC candidates, are facing trouble for this sudden strike. Meanwhile, tourists from different districts got stuck ...

Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Faruk Khan said on Tuesday that the development work of Osmani Airport will be completed within the next 2-3 years. “The slow pace of development work in different countries of the world is an inevitable reality. There are many international crises, including dollars, in our country. For these reasons, it is taking some time to ...

A CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver was allegedly stabbed to death on Sunday night in Moulvibazar’s Kamalganj upazila. The victim was Soab Ali, a resident of Munshibazar area under the upazial. In the incident, police arrested two people in Uttar Munsibazar area of the upazila around 9:30 pm. Rajnagar Police Station Officer-in-Charge (Investigation) Mirza Mazharul Anwar said the victim Soab Ali had ...

Police arrested a woman and a man along with 10 kg of cannabis at Dharmapasha upazila in Sunamganj district on Sunday night. The arrested were Khokon Mia, 55, hailed from Kasba upazila in Brahmanbaria district, and Banesa Begum, 45, from Akhaura upazila of the same district. According to police, on a tip-off, police conducted a drive at Sarishakanda Islampur village ...

Sylhet Zone of Islami Bank Bangladesh PLC has organised the Agent Banking Business Development Conference and a workshop on the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing on Thursday. The events took place at a local hotel on Thursday. Mohammed Monirul Moula, managing director and CEO of the bank, addressed the conference as the chief guest on a virtual platform. ...

Leaders and activists of Moulvibazar District Awami League, Jubo League and Chhatra League have reportedly attacked the police at the central Shaheed Minar of Moulvibazar on the International Mother Language Day. This incident happened at the Shaheed Minar on Tuesday midnight centring a police barricade. As per protocol, the Moulvibazar Deputy Commissioner Dr Urmi Binte Salam and Superintendent of Police ...

On the occasion of International Mother Language Day, social services department distributed cheques of Tk 50,000 each to 24 child patients suffering from various complex diseases at Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar district. Moulvibazar-2 seat MP Shafiul Alam Chowdhury Nadel distributed these cheques among the children as the chief guest in a programme on Wednesday at the upazila parishad conference room. ...

Three Indian nationals were arrested at Jaflong border in Sylhet on early Tuesday on charge of penetrating Bangladesh without any legal documents. The arrested were identified as Ahmed Hossain, 50, son of Abul Kalam of Muktapur village of Dauki police station in Meghalaya State, Rajesh Das, 42, son of Ramesh Das, and Lokesh Tanti, 36, son of late Benga Tanti ...

A two-day book fair began on the premises of Shaheed Minar at Kamalganj upazila headquarters in Moulvibazar district on the occasion of International Mother Language Day. Kamalganj upazila nirbahi officer Joynal Abedin inaugurated the fair, organised by the upazila administration, on Tuesday afternoon in this regard. Upazila anti-corruption committee president Imtiaz Ahmed Bulbul, Kamaganj municipality mayor Md Jewel Ahmed, upazila ...