Sylhet

Moulvibazar Correspondent : There has been an alarming increase in the theft of trees and infrastructure at Mirtinga Tea Garden in Rahimpur Union, Kamalganj Upazila, Moulvibazar, under Deundi Tea Company Limited. Mirtinga Tea Garden Deputy Manager Rezaul Hayat Khan (Emon) confirmed the incident and said that a general diary has been filed with the police station on behalf of the ...

The police cancelled the approval for holding a week-long book fair at Sylhet Central Shaheed Minar hours before its inauguration, fearing a deterioration of the law and order situation. The organisers alleged that the book fair was supposed to be inaugurated by the commerce minister Khandaker Abdul Muktadir on Friday morning, but Sylhet Metropolitan Police withdrew its permission for organising ...

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB-55) seized Indian liquor and cannabis worth around Tk 1.7 lakh in separate anti-narcotics drives in Habiganj district. Acting on a tip-off, a patrol team of BGB officials from Sindurkhan BOP conducted a drive in Sindurkhan tea garden area and recovered 36 bottles of Indian liquor. On the same day, another patrol team from Satchhari BOP recovered ...

A total of 18 lightning arresters were installed in six upazilas of Sunamganj district costing several of crores of taka in 2023; yet there is no information that any of the devices could have prevented a single incident of lightning strike so far. In view of that, doubts are growing among the locals about the effectiveness of the devices. A ...

A child died after drowning in a pond in Sunamganj’s Dharampasha upazila on Tuesday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Alif, 4, son of Suman Mia, a resident of Gabi village under Selbarash union of the upazila. According to locals, the child was playing with other children near his house when he fell into a nearby pond unnoticed and went ...

Bangla Mirror Desk : Ahmed Us Samad Chowdhury JP, lifelong member of the Liver Foundation and Chairman of Channel S, was felicitated at the Liver Foundation Sylhet for his ongoing humanitarian contributions. The ceremony also honored specialist doctors providing voluntary medical services in the region. The event took place on Monday the 20th April at the Liver Foundation Sylhet office ...

An expatriate from Moulvibazar was killed in a Ukrainian drone attack while reportedly working with Russian forces, according to local union parishad officials and family members. The deceased, Muhibur Rahman, was from Sampadpur village under Amtoil union in Sadar upazila. Md Iqbal Ahmed, member of Amtoil union parishad, confirmed the death citing information from the family. Muhibur had initially travelled ...

A two-year-old child named Saju died with measles-like symptoms in Sylhet on Monday. The child passed away at 9:00 am at Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital. With this latest death, the number of children who died with measles-like symptoms in Sylhet has risen to five. On the same day, two more children with similar ...

A total of 68,540 children will be vaccinated under the measles-rubella campaign in the Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) area, officials announced at a coordination meeting on Sunday. Dr Md Zahidul Islam, Chief Health Officer of SCC, said the campaign will be implemented in two phases. In the first phase, vaccination will be carried out at the community level across all ...

Police arrested three alleged drug peddlers along with Yaba pills and heroin in a special drive in Sunamganj’s Dharmapasha upazila on Saturday morning. The arrested were identified as Delwar, 27, Himel Talukder, 26 and Milton, 48, all residents of Mirzapur village. Acting on a tip-off, a team of police officials led by sub-inspector (SI) Md Rafiqul Islam conducted a drive ...