Sylhet

A goods-laden pickup van was set on fire in Sylhet’s South Surma on the first day of the second phase of blockade called by BNP-Jamaat. Police arrested one person in the incident. Witnesses said picketers pelted bricks at a pick-up van carrying food products in Jalkarkandi area of Parairchak. Later, petrol bombs were thrown. At that time, the front part ...

Two separate cases were lodged accusing over 250 leaders and activists of BNP-Jamaat in connection with the clashes with the ruling Awami League’s student wing Chhatra League and police during a daylong hartal enforced by the BNP on Wednesday. One of the cases was filed by Chhatra League leader Imon Ahmed and the rest by sub inspector Kallol with Kotwali ...

Sunamganj Correspondent : The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested another suspect in the killing of Amirul Haque Parvez, a police constable, during the violent clashes stemming from the BNP’s antigovernment rally in Dhaka on Oct 28. The arrestee, Ansar Uddin, is the president of Jubo Dal’s Sunamganj wing, according to the RAB. He was arrested in Sylhet on Friday, according ...

A local Chhatra League leader was killed and four others were injured in a road accident in Moulvibazar’s Sreemangal upazila early Thursday. Deceased Tarek Chowdhury, 22, was a joint general secretary of BCL Sreemangal Govt College unit. Witnesses said a private car heading to Moulvibazar from Sreemangal lost control and collided with a roadside tree in Noagaon area of the ...

A student of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) was found dead at Salutikor area under Gowainghat upazila in Sylhet district early Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Rakibul Hasan Sifat, a third year student of the Chemistry Department of the university. Md Khalique, sub-inspector of Gowainghat Police Station, said being informed by locals police recovered the body of ...

An officer-in-charge (OC) of South Surma police station Md Shamsuddoha was injured in a misfire by a constable at South Surma upazila in Sylhet district on Tuesday morning. The incident took place at Satmile in Lalabazar area under the upazila. He was injured by a bullet suddenly fired from the shotgun of the personal assistant of the Assistant Commissioner of ...

A Jubo Dal leader died after suffering injuries in a motorcycle accident that took place when he was fleeing from police on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Sylhet’s Dakkhin Surma upazila this morning. Jubo Dal called a dawn-till-dusk hartal in Sylhet division tomorrow in protest of the death, said Moksud Ahmed, general secretary of the Sylhet district unit Jubo Dal. The ...

Act, 2023 as the new name of the medical university will be Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib University, Sylhet as per the new act. State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossain, on behalf of Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque, moved the bill which was unanimously passed by voice votes with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair. In ...

Habiganj Correspondent : A court in Habiganj on Monday sentenced a man to death in a case filed over killing another man at Ajmiriganj upazila in the district on 2011. Habiganj Additional District and Sessions Court Judge Md Azizul Haque handed down the verdict on Monday afternoon. The convict is Lokuz Mia, 37, a resident of Shibpasha union in the ...

At least five cases were filed against over 600 BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami leaders and activists in Sylhet in connection with sporadic chases, cocktail explosions, road barricades, and car vandalism during the countrywide strike called by BNP-Jamaat in Sylhet. Sylhet Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner (North) Azbahar Ali Sheikh confirmed the matter. Six people arrested during the strike on Sunday are BNP ...