Sylhet

More than 50 people were injured in a clash over a football match at Shantiganj upazila in Sunamganj district on Monday. According to locals, a tension arose between the supporters of current East Birgaon Union Parishad chairman Riazul Islam Raizul and former chairman Noor Kalam at Birgaon Bazar area on Sunday afternoon over a football match. At one stage it ...

Sylhet city will enforce a ban on battery-run rickshaws and unregistered CNG-powered auto-rickshaws from Monday (September 23), following the expiration of a seven-day ultimatum issued by the Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP). The ban, announced on September 16, prohibits the operation of illegal vehicles on major roads within Sylhet city. According to Mohammad Saiful Islam, Additional Deputy Commissioner (Media) of SMP, ...

Two children drowned in a pond while taking bath at Lakhai upazila in Habiganj district on Friday evening. The incident happened at Noaggao village under Bamoi union in the upazila. The deceased were identified as Sushi Akhter, 5, daughter of Sohag Miah, and Sohag’s sister’s daughter Barsha Akhtar, 4, residents of the area. It was learnt the two children went ...

Two people were killed after being struck by lightning at two separate areas at Jaintapur upazila in Sylhet district on Saturday. The deceased were identified as Nahid Ahmed, 13, son of Nurul Haque of Agfout village, and Abdul Mannan, 45, of Babarband village. According to locals, both of them were outside of their houses and returning to home amid a ...

Sunamganj Correspondent : A Sunamganj court today sent former planning minister MA Mannan to jail in a case filed over the attack on students during the protests on August 4. Mannan was arrested by police yesterday evening from his village in Sunamganj. Sunamganj Judicial Magistrate Farhan Sadique passed the order after police produced him before the court, said Mashuk Alam, ...

Police arrested a youth from his house over raping a school girl at Sreemangal upazila in Moulvibazar district on Wednesday night. The arrested man is Jahangir Miah, 25, a residen of Kamasid village under Mirzapur union in the upazila. Police said that the victim, age around 14, a ninth-grader of a local school, was raped several times in her room ...

Sunamganj Correspondent : Police arrested former Planning Minister MA Mannan from his home in Sunamganj’s Shatiganj upazila yesterday evening. AFM Anwar Hossain, superintendent of Sunamganj police, said, “He [MA Mannan] is accused in a case filed with a court. After being informed that he was at his village home, police conducted a drive and arrested him.” “We will produce him ...

A Habiganj court has acquitted BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman in a defamation case filed against him in the district. Habiganj Senior Judicial Magistrate Court Judge Abdul Alim passed the order on Thursday. Asaduzzaman Khan Tuhin, a former vice-president of the Habiganj district Chhatra League in 2015, filed the case following comments made by Tarique Rahman about Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ...

A policeman was killed after being crushed under the wheels of a train in the Shibbari area at Dakshin Surma upazila in Sylhet district on Wednesday night. The deceased was identified as Zahirul Haque, hailed from Madhyanagar upazila of Sunamganj. He was a constable in the South Surma Police Station. The accident occurred in the Shibbari area of South Surma ...

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has detained former Mayor of Habiganj Municipality and Organizing Secretary of the District Awami League Ataur Rahman Selim and later handed him to police. RAB-2 and RAB-9 conducted a joint operation in the Dhanmondi area of Dhaka and picked up Selim on Tuesday afternoon. Dhanmondi Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Anwar Hossain said on Wednesday Selim was ...