Sylhet

A Jubo Dal leader died after suffering injuries in a motorcycle accident that took place when he was fleeing from police on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Sylhet’s Dakkhin Surma upazila this morning. Jubo Dal called a dawn-till-dusk hartal in Sylhet division tomorrow in protest of the death, said Moksud Ahmed, general secretary of the Sylhet district unit Jubo Dal. The ...

Act, 2023 as the new name of the medical university will be Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib University, Sylhet as per the new act. State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossain, on behalf of Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque, moved the bill which was unanimously passed by voice votes with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair. In ...

Habiganj Correspondent : A court in Habiganj on Monday sentenced a man to death in a case filed over killing another man at Ajmiriganj upazila in the district on 2011. Habiganj Additional District and Sessions Court Judge Md Azizul Haque handed down the verdict on Monday afternoon. The convict is Lokuz Mia, 37, a resident of Shibpasha union in the ...

At least five cases were filed against over 600 BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami leaders and activists in Sylhet in connection with sporadic chases, cocktail explosions, road barricades, and car vandalism during the countrywide strike called by BNP-Jamaat in Sylhet. Sylhet Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner (North) Azbahar Ali Sheikh confirmed the matter. Six people arrested during the strike on Sunday are BNP ...

Sylhet Office : A police officer was killed in a road crash Sunday (October 29) night at around 9 pm of Osmani international Airport Road as pickup van- CNG auto-rickshaw collided. The deceased is Burhan Uddin, an assistant sub-inspector of Ambarkhana police outpost in Sylhet Metropolitan Police. Officer-in-Charge of Airport Police Station Moin Uddin Shipon confirmed the matter.

Sylhet Office : Multiple clashes between BNP men and police in various Sylhet city areas took place this morning in the midst of a nationwide hartal called by BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami. While trying to gather on the streets around 8:30am, a group of BNP activists got involved in a skirmish with police in the Zindabazar area. Police chased the picketers away and opened fire ...

Moulvibazar and Juri Correspondent : Moulvibazar District Jamaat Acting Ameer Ameer Maulana Abdur Rahman has been arrested by the police. The police arrested him from Juri city around 1.30 pm on Friday. Maulana Abdur Rahman was the accused of arrest warrant No. 9 in the case of obstructing police work done at Juri police station on October 6, unlawful act ...

Komalganj (Moulvibazar) Correspondent : Police recovered the body of a man from Komalganj upazila in Moulvibazar district on Friday evening. The deceased was identified as Samir Mia, 42, son of Imtiaz Mia, a resident of Shatiji village under Shamshernagar union of the upazila. According to locals, they saw the body was fallen down behind a hospital at Mokam Bazaar area ...

Sylhet Office : Sylhet City Corporation has announced a Tk 925.4 crore budget for fiscal 2023-24. Mayor Ariful Haque Choudhury announced the budget at a press conference at the city’s Arambagh yesterday. This is Ariful’s last budget as he did not participate in the recent city polls and the newly-elected mayor will take over next month. In the budget, SCC ...

Habiganj Correspondent : A Habiganj court on Thursday sentenced five members of a family including husband to death for killing a pregnant housewife over dowry at Chunarughat upazila in the district in 2016. Besides, each of the accused was fined Tk 1 lakh. Habiganj District Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-2’s judge Md Zahidul Huque handed down the verdict in ...