Sylhet

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun’s younger brother Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mahmud (Al-Amin) got Awami League nomination from Sunamganj-2 (Dirai-Shalla) constituency to contest the 12th Jatiya Sangsad election. Late Awami League leader Suranjit Sengupta was a member of parliament from this constituency. After his death, his wife Jaya Sengupta was elected MP from the seat. Al-Mahmud submitted his ...

Unidentified miscreants vandalised a covered van and set fire on it on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Dakshin Surma upazila in Sylhet district on Monday morning during the 7th edition of 48 hours blockade across the country enforced by BNP and its like-minded parties. Eyewitnesses said a group of miscreants wearing helmet and mask stopped the covered van and started vandalising ...

New gas reserve has been found in well No 10 under the Sylhet Gas Field Limited in Jaintapur upazila of Sylhet district. Sylhet Gas Field Limited (SGFL) Director Mohammad Mizanur Rahman said 13 million cubic feet of gas can be extracted daily from the well. “We are expecting to extract 13 million cubic feet of gas per day from the ...

A child died after being crushed by an auto-rickshaw on her way to Madrasa in Sunamganj’s Dowarabazar upazila on Sunday. The accident took place at 9 am near Sripur Pandargao Bazaar in the upazila. The dead was Faiza Akter, 6, daughter Abdul Hannan, hailed from Gopeenagar village under Pandargao union. She was a third grader at a madrasa. According to ...

Both pass rate and GPA-5 in Sylhet board in HSC and equivalent examinations have decreased. This year, Sylhet board pass rate is 71.62 per cent, while 1,699 got GPA-5. Compared to the last year, the pass rate has decreased by 9.81 per cent and GPA-5 by 3,182. In 2022, Sylhet board pass rate was 81.43 per cent.  

Jaintapur upazila Correspondent : An expatriate was killed in a land dispute at Jaintapur upazila in Sylhet district on Friday. The deceased Abdus Shakur, 62, hailed from the upazila’s Dalaipara area. Jaintapur Police Station officer-in-charge Tajul Islam said he was killed in a brawl that ensued between two groups of villagers over a piece of land. On information, police recovered ...

Sylhet Office : Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Friday said that foreigners often disturb unnecessarily. “If they give us good advice, we will accept those and if they bad advice, we will reject those,” he said. “America is a very pragmatic government. They were not with us in 1971, but after achieving victory, America supported us for the ...

The auditions for the second season of the international mega reality show and competition ‘Quraner Noor’ started in Sylhet on Friday with the participation of 500 Hafezes across the division. Baitul Mukarram National Mosque Musalli Committee is organising the mega Islamic event — ‘Quraner Noor International Hifzul Quran Competition-2024’ — for the second time, patronised by Bashundhara Group, the country’s ...

Gas reserve has been found in an abandoned well at the Kailashtila gas field under the Sylhet Gas Fields Limited (SGFL) in Golapganj. Gas extraction from this well will start next week, officials said on Wednesday. SGFL expects an additional supply of seven million cubic feet of gas per day (mmcfd) from the previously abandoned Kailashtila-2 well. According to SGFL ...

Train communication of Sylhet with the rest of the country was restored after 9am on Thursday, 13 hours later following the derailment of two carriages of an oil-carrying train at Badgaon in Shayestaganj upazila of Habiganj district. Abul Khayer Chowdhury, station master of Shayestaganj Railway Junction, said train communication of Sylhet with the other parts was suspended at 8pm on ...