Sylhet

On the occasion of International Mother Language Day, social services department distributed cheques of Tk 50,000 each to 24 child patients suffering from various complex diseases at Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar district. Moulvibazar-2 seat MP Shafiul Alam Chowdhury Nadel distributed these cheques among the children as the chief guest in a programme on Wednesday at the upazila parishad conference room. ...

Three Indian nationals were arrested at Jaflong border in Sylhet on early Tuesday on charge of penetrating Bangladesh without any legal documents. The arrested were identified as Ahmed Hossain, 50, son of Abul Kalam of Muktapur village of Dauki police station in Meghalaya State, Rajesh Das, 42, son of Ramesh Das, and Lokesh Tanti, 36, son of late Benga Tanti ...

A two-day book fair began on the premises of Shaheed Minar at Kamalganj upazila headquarters in Moulvibazar district on the occasion of International Mother Language Day. Kamalganj upazila nirbahi officer Joynal Abedin inaugurated the fair, organised by the upazila administration, on Tuesday afternoon in this regard. Upazila anti-corruption committee president Imtiaz Ahmed Bulbul, Kamaganj municipality mayor Md Jewel Ahmed, upazila ...

A case has been filed against writer and online activist Pinaki Bhattacharya under the Cyber Security Act in Sylhet. bangladesh Muktijuddha Mancha Sylhet district chapter’s vice-president Abdur Rahman filed the case at Sylhet’s cyber tribunal judge Md Moni Kamal’s court on Sunday afternoon. In the case, charges were brought against seven people including Pinaki Bhattacharya who now lives abroad. The ...

Sunamganj Correspondent : The national committee of the Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) has approved its 23 member Sunamganj District committee. In this. Advocate Nasirul Haque Affindi has been made president and journalist Shahjahan Chowdhury has been made general secretary. CAB’s National Committee General Secretary Advocate Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan approved the Sunamganj District committee on Saturday. Other officers of Sunamganj ...

Some 18 million cubic feet of gas is being added to the national grid everyday from Rashidpur Gas Field successfully and its production has increased to 66 million cubic feet. “Gas supply has started from Well-2 and Well-9 of Rashidpur gas field. It will supply more than 18 million cubic feet gas per day. Now the production of the gas ...

Campaign for Media Freedom (CMF) has organized a training for 36 young journalists in Moulvibazar without any external support for the first time in the district. This training workshop took place on Saturday at Moulvibazar Press Club in collaboration with Daily Dazzling Dawn, an English newspaper owned by Bangladeshi people based in London. The CMF has been dedicated to improving ...

A Material Recovery Facility for municipal solid waste and plastic waste segregation has been installed in Sylhet at a cost of Tk15.30 crore for sustainable management of plastic waste of the Sylhet City Corporation (SCC). The plant was inaugurated on Saturday at Sylhet’s Lalmatia Dumping Ground by the Minister of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives of the People’s Republic ...

State Minister for Power, Energy, and Minerals Resources Nasrul Hamid hoped that 1.6 TCF (trillion cubic feet) more gas will be found at the Kailashtila gas field in Golapganj upazila of Sylhet. It will be confirmed once the drilling is completed within the next four months, he said. The state minister made the remarks after visiting the Kailashtila well no ...

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid on Saturday said 100 per cent prepaid gas meters will be installed within the next four years. “Every consumer to come under prepaid gas metre within next four years,” he said inaugurating Bangabandhu Corner and prepaid meter project’s data centre and data recovery centre at Jalalabad Gas Transmission and Distribution ...