Sylhet

Elections will be held in Sylhet and Rajshahi City Corporation on June 21. Also on May 25 in Gazipur, Khulna and Barisal City Corporation on June 12. This decision was taken at the 17th commission meeting held at the election building in Agargaon on Monday. After the meeting, commission secretary Mo Jahangir Alam announced the detailed schedule. Before that, the ...

Sylhet’s Kadmatoli Modern Central Bus Terminal was built at a cost of about 65 crores on the model of Sylhet’s traditional Assam style houses and Chandnighat clocks. Dhali Construction, a well-known contractor of the country, got the construction of this modern bus terminal funded by the World Bank. After construction, the bus terminal is now awaiting inauguration by the Prime ...

Two minor children drowned in a pond at Bahubal upazila in Habiganj district on Saturday afternoon. The deceased were Jannat, 02, and her cousin Yasin, 04, — both hailed from Roghurampur village. According to locals, the duo slipped into the pond when they were playing beside the pond. Realizing their absence, family members started searching for them and found their ...

A bank employee died in a road accident at Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar district on Saturday morning. The accident took place around 8 am in Holichhara area under Brahmanbazar union on the Kulaura-Moulvibazar regional highway. The dead was Hriday Chaitri, hailed form Madhabpur upazila in Habiganj district. He worked at Mutual Trust Bank in Sylhet. According to locals, the bloodstained ...

A college student allegedly committed suicide taking poison in Baniachang upazila of Habiganj district on Wednesday night. The deceased Samapti Rani Baishnab, 20, daughter of Kalibashi Baishnab, a first year student Diploma Nursing of North East Nursing College in South Surma. She used to live at a rented hostel in Badikona area of South Surma. Police said Samapti took poison ...

An activist of Juba League, youth front of the ruling Awami League, was stabbed to death by another activist of the organisation at Chhatak upazila in Sunamganj on Tuesday night following a previous quarrel over formation of a mosque committee. The deceased, Layek Miah, 40, is son of late Abdul Mannan of Mandalibhog area in the Chhatak municipality, the police ...

Moulvibazar Correspondent : The Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) on Tuesday fined three shops Tk 20,000 for irregularities at Juri upazila of Moulvibazar district. Deputy Director of Moulvibazar DNCRP Md. Shafiqul Islam conducted raids in different markets and areas of the upazila to ensure the fair price of essentials for consumers. During the drives, DNCRP fined Lutfur Varieties ...

Police on Monday recovered the hanging body of a girl at Gowainghat upazila in Sylhet district. The dead was Rojina Akter Rima, daughter of retired army personnel Abdur Rahim, a resident of Nabamakhanda village under Zaflang union. She was a 12th grader at Imran Ahmad Govt Women’s College. According to police, locals spotted the girl hanging from a ceiling fan ...

Recently 13 endangered vultures were killed by poison in Barakapan village of Ekatuna UP, Moulvibazar Sadar. In this incident, the Forest Department has made a General Diary (GD) at Moulvibazar Sadar Model Police Station. Initially the vultures were said to have been killed by poisoning. 13 vultures spread 9 dogs, several foxes and cats also died from the poison. On ...

Osmani Medical College Hospital area of Sylhet city. One of the hideouts of Kishore gangs. There are some teenage gangs in that area. They are reckless. Two murders have already taken place at the hands of juvenile gangs. From 2019 to 2022, members of juvenile gangs committed these murders in public. Several people were injured by them. After that, police ...