Sylhet

Police arrested three drug peddlers along with Yaba pills from Sylhet city on Wednesday evening. The arrested are Mahbubur Rahman, 45, Azir Uddin, 30, and Russel Ahmed, 32. Acting on a tip-off, a team from Kotwali Model Police Station conducted a drive in Ambarkhana area and arrested them, said the police station officer in-charge Mohammad Ali Mahmud. He said a ...

A child drowned in a water body at Shantiganj upazila in Sunamganj district on Wednesday afternoon. The dead was Maha, 6, daughter of Afizur Rahman, a resident of Chandrapur village of the upazila. It was known that the girl drowned in a water body adjacent to the village while she was taking bath with her two friends. Family members rescued ...

BNP’s central cooperative affairs secretary and former Habiganj municipality mayor GK Gaus has been picked up by detective Branch (DB) of police from the city’s Kakrail area, alleged the partymen. Asking about truth of the allegation, one of the DB official said to media that GK Gaus has ben taken under their custody. But he did not disclose the details. ...

A mild tremor of 4.6 magnitude on the Richter Scale was felt 18 kilometres away from Sylhet’s Jaintapur on Tuesday afternoon. The tremor was felt around 1:13pm.  

An annual science fair was held in Moulvibazar’s Kamalganj upazila on Monday. Kamalganj upazila secondary education officer Shamsun Nahar Parvin inaugurated the fair at 11 am at Teitaigaon Rashid High School with the participation of the school’s students. A discussion was held on the occasion of the fair presided over by the school head teacher Shahena Begum where Kamalganj Press ...

Police arrested a man reportedly for stabbing his ex-wife to death over previous enmity in Chunarughat upazila of Habiganj district on Saturday evening. The arrested was Sujon Miah, 40, while the victim was identified as Aklima Khatun, 35, both were residents of Sonachang village under the upazila. According to locals, Aklima and Sujon got separated almost four months ago and ...

A case has been filed today against over 237 BNP leaders and activists over the Awami League-BNP clash in Habiganj town on August 20. Habiganj BNP Joint Convener GK Gaus and District Chhatra Dal President Shah Rajib are among the accused, repots our Moulvibazar correspondent quoting police. Mahibur Rahman Mahi, former general secretary of Habiganj Chhatra League, said he had ...

The British high commissioner to Bangladesh Sarah Cooke on Thursday paid her maiden courtesy call on the newly elected mayor of Sylhet City Corporation Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury. The SCC mayor Anwaruzzaman welcomed the Sarah Cooke at his residence of the city’s Pathantula in the morning. During the meeting, Sarah Cooke highly praised the prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s leadership on global warming ...

A court in Habiganj district on Thursday sentenced a man to death for killing a businessman in Sultanshi village under Sadar upazila of the district, in 1997. Judge of the Additional District and Sessions Judge Court-1, Azizul Haque pronounced the verdict in the afternoon, BSS reports. The convict is – Abdul Wahid, a resident of the Sultanshi village under Sadar ...

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas on Wednesday visited Bibiyana Gas Field at Nabiganj upazila in Habiganj district. Chevron Bangladesh’s spokesman Sheikh Zahidur Rahman confirmed about Ambassador Peter Haas’ visit of the Bibiyana Gas Field on Wednesday evening. During his visit, the US Ambassador exchanged opinions with senior officials of Bibiyana and Chevron. He also visited a clinic and a ...