Sylhet

A female Dutch tourist was injured when a truck hit her bicycle on the Srimangal-Bhanugach road in Srimangal upazila of Moulvibazar district on Monday. The injured was identified as Tosca Marianne, 60. The accident occurred on Monday afternoon in front of the Tea Museum when a sand-laden truck hit the tourist’s bicycle while she was heading towards Srimangal town, leaving ...

New gas reserves have been found in an old gas well during a renovation project at Haripur upazila in Sylhet on Tuesday. After conducting two rounds of tests, Sylhet Gas Fields Limited (SGFL) confirmed the discovery in the afternoon. The second round of testing revealed the gas reserve at a depth of just 1,200 meters. This followed a previous discovery ...

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel in a drive at the border areas in Sylhet and Sunamganj seized huge amount of smuggled Indian goods worth about Tk over 1.62 crore in the last 24 hours. BGB’s Sylhet Battalion (48 BGB) Lt Colonel Md Hafizur Rahman said the BGB personnel seized 702 pieces of Indian sarees, 1,074 pieces of sunglasses, 629 meters ...

Police have recovered the body of a caretaker from a farm of a former government secretary at Kulaura upazila Moulvibazar on Monday. The discovery of the body of Birendra Malakar Suku, 40, son of late Dhirendra Malakar, was made on Monday morning at the farm owned by ex-secretary Mikail Shipar at Hossainpur under Bhatera union. However, the authorities have yet ...

Orange farming has received a shuttering blow in Juri upazila of Moulvibazar district this season thanks to widespread outbreak of a certain type of disease in recent weeks. Prospect for a good yield started diminishing at the time when the farmers were preparing to harvest the pricey fruit, insiders said. Upazilas like Juri, Kulaura and Srimangal in Moulvibazar district are ...

A 15-year-old boy died from electrocution in  Akhalia area of Noyabazar in Sylhet on Saturday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Rudra Das, son of Amarchan Das, a resident of Manik Mia’s Colony in Noyabazar. Jalalabad Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md. Harunur Rashid confirmed the matter. According to police, Rudra worked as a battery-operated van driver. Around 3 pm, while ...

A youth was reportedly hacked to death over a trivial matter in Sylhet city on Friday night. The incident occurred around 9:00 PM in the Sagordhigi area of the city. The deceased was identified as Shawn Miah, 25, son of Selim Miah, a resident of the Bonkalapara area. It was learnt that some youths were chatting on Monipur Gali in ...

Two drug peddlers were arrested along with 150 pieces of Yaba tablets and 800 grams of hemp at Dharmapasha upazila in Sunamganj district early Friday. The arrested men are Sgah Jahan, 45, and Raza Miah, residents of Islampur village under Sukhair Razapur North union in the upazila. They were arrested from a house in the area at around 2:30am. The ...

A motorcyclist was killed and three others were injured as the motorcycle plunged into a roadside ditch at Madhobpur upazila in Habiganj on Wednesday night. The deceased was identified as Sourov Mias, 18, a resident of Kalikapur village in upazila. Sourov lost control over the steering after hitting a pedestrian and eventually plunged into a roadside ditch in Hadia area ...

A Bangladeshi citizen was detained by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) yesterday after crossing into Indian territory from Sylhet’s Panthumai border area in Gowainghat upazila. The detainee, 41-year-old Hoson Ahmed from Paschim Panthumai village, was held around 12:30pm after entering India in search of a cow that had strayed across the border, said Sarker Tofail Ahmed, officer-in-charge (OC) of Gowainghat ...