Sylhet

Bangladesh Institute of Capital Market (BICM) inaugurated a 2-day training session on innovation in civil service held in Habiganj. Secretary at the Department of Financial Institutions Sheikh Saleem Ullah inaugurated the program as chief guest, said a press release on Saturday. After inaugurating the program, Sheikh Salim Ullah handed over the prizes and certificates to the winners of the Innovation ...

A child was killed and another four were injured as a CNG-run auto-rickshaw hit a truck in Habiganj on Thursday night. The accident took place on Habiganj-Baniachong street on Thursday night, said Baniachong Police Station OC Md Imran Hossain. The deceased was identified as Jannat Akter, 2. Witnesses said Shohag Miah along with his child and wife was going to ...

A young man has been sent to jail for raping a woman who was going to get married but had an affair with him. Jahangir Ahmed (28) was arrested from a hotel in Sylhet with the rape victim on Tuesday afternoon after Kotwali police was informed by Nation emergency helpline 999. According to police a 22-year-old girl was raped at ...

The Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) again retreated from its attempt to reconstruct the 40-year-old ‘City Super Market’, which was declared vulnerable years ago by the experts. The SCC last week in a sudden move cancelled its bidding notice, floated in some local newspapers for dismantling the structure. The large market has been in a dilapidated state for many years. The ...

Exhausted about the battle of earning breads and money, Tuni Begum had dreams of happy life. She wanted prosperity and flew to Saudi Arabia seven months ago in search of her fate. Everything is buried now as her coffin had returned to the country. She was tortured to death by brokers, alleged her family members. Family members of Tuni heard ...

Sylhet Office : A daylong immigration awareness seminar organized by “USA Immigrant Visa Pending Case Holders Community from Bangladesh” on their 5th anniversary occasion held on Friday 12 November 2021 at a hotel in Sylhet. The president of Sylhet Chamber of Commerce Mr. Abu Taher Md. Shueb was present as chief guest while senior journalist Mr. Al Azad, president of ...

An Indian national was arrested at Haripur Bazar in the bordering upazila of Jaintapur in Sylhet early Thursday on the charge of trespassing into the Bangladesh territory. The arrested was Alim Uddin, 45, son of Elias Ali of Barout village under Huzai police station in Nogaon district of the Indian state of Assam, said the police. Jaintapur police officer-in-charge Golam ...

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has arrested a Bangladesh Chhatri League (BCL) leader in an extortion case in Habiganj’s Shayestaganj upazila. On secret information, a Rab-9 team raided Driver Bazar area around 11pm yesterday and arrested Prosenjit Chandra Deb, BCL president of Shayestaganj upazila unit, our Moulvibazar correspondent reports. Prosenjit was a fugitive accused in the case filed over extortion, Commander ...

Customs Intelligence arrested a man with 38 gold bars, weighing 6kg, from Sylhet MAG Osmani International Airport on Monday morning. The arrestee is identified as Porendra Das, 38, son of Noresh Das, hailing from Atghar Najirabad village of Moulvibazar Sadar. A flight of BG-248 landed the airport from Dubai around 9:00am, said Al-Amin, Deputy Commissioner of Sylhet Customs Excise and ...

Two minor children drowned in a canal at Tahirpur upazila in Sunamganj district on Monday afternoon. The deceased were identified as Ema Akter, 5, daughter of UP member Babul Miah, and her cousin Arman Hossain,4, son of Ashik Nur Miah, residents of Tahirpur Sadar Union. Tahirpur Police Station sub-inspector Md Nazmul Haque said firefighters recovered the bodies from a canal ...