Sylhet

Bangladesh has boosted its natural gas supply, adding 26 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) to the national grid from Well-5 of the Habiganj Gas Field following a successful workover under the Bangladesh Gas Fields Company Limited (BGFCL). The workover was carried out as part of the ongoing project titled “Workover of Seven Wells in Titas, Habiganj, Bakhrabad and Meghna ...

All commercial outlets here in the city, except hotels, restaurants and medicine shops, will remain closed after 9:30pm starting December 7. A decision was also made to keep the parking spaces of all markets open for public use. The directives were finalised at a view-exchange meeting with leaders of various market committees, held at the Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP) Commissioner’s ...

Two individuals were killed in a head-on collision between a truck and a pickup van in Bahubal upazila of Habiganj district on Tuesday morning. The identities of the deceased are yet to be known. According to locals, the incident occurred at around 8:30 AM in the Mauchak area on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway when a Dhaka-bound truck collided head-on with a ...

Locals of Paikpara–Chonogao road in Dowarabazar upazila of Sunamganj district are facing severe hardship as the road has remained unrepaired for a long time. They also allege that the upazila’s LGED (Local Government Engineering Department) has taken no effective measures to fix the deteriorating road. A visit on Monday reveals that the stretch from Chonogao to Paikpara Golap’s House along ...

The Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court, Sylhet on Sunday set January 7 to deliver the verdict in the case of the alleged custodial death of Raihan Ahmed at a city police station. Raihan, who was 34-year-old at the time of his death, died on October 11, 2020 allegedly after he had endured brutal torture at the Bandar Bazar outpost of the ...

A Milad Mahfil and cooked food distribution programmme was held today in the district for the early recovery of BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia and praying for the souls of martyred President Ziaur Rahman and Arafat Rahman Koko. The district unit of BNP organized the programme on Sunday afternoon at Habiganj Orphanage. Central BNP Organizing Secretary ...

Police recovered the hanging body of a schoolgirl from Zakiganj upazila of Sylhet district on Thursday evening. The deceased was identified as Jhuma Akter, 10, daughter of Harun Mia, a resident of Amlashid village under Barthakuri union in the upazila. Jhuma was a Class IV student. According to locals, Jhuma was found hanging in the family’s cowshed. Later, family members ...

A youth was killed in a clash between two groups in Badambagicha area of Sylhet district on Thursday night. The deceased was identified as Shah Mahmud Hasan Tapu, 17, son of Shah Enamul Haque, a resident of Badambagicha area in Sylhet municipality. According to sources, a clash broke out between two factions of the area at around 11:30 PM when ...

Balia Government Primary School in Paikurati Union, Dharmapasha Upazila, Sunamganj, has become a stark example of how mismanagement, political influence, and systemic malpractice are compromising education. With only 21 students enrolled, the school operates more like a bureaucratic formality than a place of learning. Despite government orders to remain open from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM, classes often start late, ...

Sylhet’s rail communication with the other parts of country which was suspended after an engine went out of order in Madhabpur upazila in Habiganj district was restored after three hours on Thursday afternoon. Monir Hossain, Noapara Station Master, said the Dhaka-bound inter-city ‘Kalni Express’ train from Sylhet went out of order near Itakhola Station in Madhabpur upazila around 10:30 am, ...