Sylhet

The mural of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, installed in front of the Sylhet District Commissioner’s office, has been demolished with a bulldozer. According to witnesses, a group of angry protesters arrived at the site around 9:30 pm with a bulldozer. Initially, they could not be there because the main gate was locked, but they managed to break the lock and stormed ...

Police on Thursday recovered the body of a child, who went missing on Wednesday, with her throat and hands cut in Moulvibazar’s Kamalganj. The body was recovered in the morning from section number 11 of a tea garden next to Camellia Tea Garden at Shamsernagar of the upazila. The victim was Purnima Reli, daughter of Apara Reli, a tea worker ...

A man has been fined Tk 1,50,000 for illegal sand extraction from the Dholai River at Kamalganj upazila  in Moulvibazar district on Tuesday. A mobile court led by Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Makhon Chandra Sutradhar conducted a raid at Brindabonpur area under Rahimpur union of the upazila and fined an individual named Sajib Debnath. According to reports, a strong syndicate ...

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has recovered a large amount of drugs, including 169 bottles of liquor and 32 kilogram of cannabis in Habiganj district. They were recovered the drugs suring several drives on Sunday night. It said that a BGB team conducted a raid at the Teliapara tea garden in Madhabpur upazila at 9:00 PM on Sunday night, recovering 62 ...

Five individuals, including a child, were killed when a truck rammed into a private car on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway at Osmaninagar upazila of Sylhet district on Sunday. The accident occured around 7.30 AM at Unishmile area of the upazila. Four of the deceased were identified as Sohel, 40, Shamima, 40, Ety Begum, 35, and Ayan, 7, while the identity of ...

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman today called for holding trial of those involved in genocide. “Those who committed genocide must be tried to free the human society from stigma. Persons involved in forcibly disappearing people should be tried on priority basis,” he said while addressing the Jamaat workers’ conference at Sunamganj Government Jubilee High School ground here as chief guest. ...

A brick kiln was fined Tk 50,000 for damaging a road by carrying bricks at Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar district on Friday morning. The upazila administration conducted a drive, led by the Assistant Commissioner (land) and Upazila Nirbahi Magistrate Shah Jahrul Hossain, in the Duloipara area in the upazila and fined Surma Brikfiled. Shah Jahrul Hossain said that the fine ...

An allegation has been received against Debashish Chakrabarty Shipon, member of Madhabpur Union Parishad’s ward no-7 under Kamalganj upazila in Moulvibazar district, for taking money from local people in pretext of providing government houses to them. The victim, Rekha Chouhan, a resident of the union, lodged a written complaint with Kamalganj Upazila Nirbahi Officer and Officer-in-Charge of Kamalganj Police Station ...

Police have arrested four alleged smugglers and seized 40 cows while smuggling to Bangladesh through Someshwari River in Sunamganj district on Sunday. Acting on a tip-off, a law enforcers team, led by Madhyanagar Police Station officer-in-charge (OC) Md Sajib Rahman and the Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Uzzal Roy, conducted a drive on the river ghat of Chamardani union on Sunday ...

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have detained an Indian national from Juri upazila in Moulvibazar district on Monday, for illegally enter into Bangladesh. The arrested is identified as Mohammad Rahul Uddin, from Bhagyapur village no 5 under Dharmanagar Police Station Jurisdiction in Tripura, India. Being tipped-off a BGB team raided the residence of a Bangladeshi citizen approximately 100 yards inside Bangladesh’s ...