Sylhet

A case has been filed against 50 to 60 unnamed people in connection with a recent attack on cultural activists in Sylhet. Sylhet Sammilita Natya Parishad General Secretary Rajat Kanti Gupta filed the case at Kotwali model police station on Friday, Kotwali model police station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mohammad Ali Mahmud confirmed. No arrests had been made so far in the ...

Forty young artists from across the country created watercolour paintings depicting the scenic beauty of the Sylhet division in a three-day art camp held at different places in the region from September 19 to September 21. The art camp titled Barisha Dharay Jalrang was jointly organised by Ronger Gaari, Sylhet Arts College and Shah Alam Gallery of Fine Art. The ...

Kamalganj (Moulvibazar ) Correspondent : A 13 and a half feet long python was rescued at Kamalganj upazila in Moulvibazar district on Friday morning. The python was rescued by forest department from Section-1 of Phulbari Tea Orchard of the upazila around 6:30 am. Later, it was released in Lawachara National Park around 7 am. Forest Department Lawachara range officer Shahidul ...

Habiganj Correspondent : A court in Habiganj has sentenced two people to death in sensational Modinatul Kubra Jerin murder case in Sadar upazila of Habiganj district in 2020. Habiganj Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-2 Judge Sudipta Das handed down the verdict on Thursday in presence of convict Jakir Hossain. The court also fined each of the convicts Tk 50,000. ...

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) brings out its scheduled road march from Bhairab Bus Stand at 11am on Thursday as part of its one-point demand. The march will go through Brahmanbaria, Habiganj and Moulvibazar via the Dhaka-Sylhet highway and end with a rally at the Sylhet’s biggest Alia Madrasa ground in the afternoon. But till Wednesday evening, police did not ...

A case under Cyber Security Act was filed accusing three people for allegedly spreading propaganda, making derogatory remarks and uploading distorted photos of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Awami League, Chhatra League and Muktijoddha Mancha using social media including Facebook. Muktijoddha Mancha Sylhet chapter’s Joint General Secretary Mostafizur Rahman filed the case with the court of Sylhet Cyber Tribunal Judge Md ...

Habiganj district Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) president Mosharraf Hossain Arif Bappi has been relieved of his post after his 3 minutes 39 seconds obscene video clip with a girl went viral on social media. He was relieved of from the organisation by a letter signed by BCL central president Saddam Hossain and general secretary Sheikh Wali Asif Enan on Sunday. ...

Two more people, who were undergoing treatment at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery (SHNIBPS) in Dhaka with burn injuries, died on Monday, raising the death toll from an explosion at a Sylhet CNG filling station to four. The deceased were identified as Tarek Ahmed, 32, son of Gias Uddin of Sadar upazila and Badal Das, 41, ...

A local union parishad chairman and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leader were killed in a road accident on the Sylhet-Companiganj highway at Gowainghat Upazila in Sylhet district early Sunday. The accident took place at around 12.30am in Salutikor Mitrimohol area of the upazila. The deceased were identified as Md Obaidullah Ishaque, 30, chairman of Jalalabad union of Sylhet Sadar upazila ...

A team of Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) in a drive here today realized Taka 15,000 as fine from the owner of three potato business establishments for selling potato at higher prices and not providing vouchers to buyers at Chashi markets in the district town. The Ministry of Commerce for the first time in the country fixed the ...