Moulvibazar Correspondent : Two people were killed as an ambulance collided head-on with a motorcycle in Moulvibazar sadar upazila on Friday afternoon. The accident took place in front of Regional Agricultural Research Institute in Kadupur area of Sreemangal Road at around around 2:00 PM. The deceased were Tajul Islam, 50, a tea worker of Kurma tea garden under Islampur union ...
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Two die as bus hits auto-rickshaw in Sunamganj
Sunamganj Correspondent : Two persons, including a schoolgirl, were killed and four others injured when a passenger bus ran over a CSG-operated auto-rickshaw at Shantiganj upazila in Sunamganj district on Thursday morning. The accident took place in Patharia Bazar under Patharia union of the upazila around 8 am. The deceased were Tausia, 13, daughter of Sabuj Mia, hailed from Sharifpur ...
Read More »Durga Puja to be held at 1,036 mandaps in Moulvibazar
Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Bangalee Hindu community, will be celebrated at 1,036 in Moulvibazar district. Of these, 884 are universal and 152 private places of worship. Moulvibazar Police Superintendent Manjur Rahman gave this information in an exchange meeting with journalists at the Police Superintendent’s office on Wednesday (October 11) afternoon. The police super said cyber monitoring ...
Read More »Bangladesh sees 169-yr highest tea production
The country has the potential to produce a record amount of tea this year. Sufficient rainfall in the monsoon, tolerable temperature and the supervision of Bangladesh Tea Board have increased the production of tea to 59 lakh kg than last year. Not only that, it is expected to set a record production in the 169-year history of tea cultivation in ...
Read More »6 families’ houses burnt in Kamalganj fire
Houses of six families were burnt down in a fire in Kamalganj upazila of Moulvibazar district on Tuesday. The incident took place at Baligaon village under Kamalganj municipal area at around 12 pm. It was known that the fire started from an electrical short circuit in a room of a house in the afternoon. Then the fire spread to adjacent ...
Read More »Traditional Karam festival of ethnic groups held in Sreemangal
Sreemangal Correspondent : The traditional Karam festival of small ethnic groups living in tea gardens was celebrated with colorful arrangements in Moulvibazar’s Sreemangal upazila. Manipuri Lalitakala Academy at Kamalganj organized the programme on Sunday afternoon at Kakiachhara Tea Garden of Sreemangal upazila in collaboration with Moulvibazar District Tea Community Tribal Front under the patronage Ministry of Culture. Moulvibazar-4 seat MP ...
Read More »Donation of Tk 1 lakh 50 thousand from Shahar Para Jubo Shongo in Jagannathpur
Greater Shahar Para Jubo Shongo is the mirror of this society. A donation of Tk 1 lakh 50 thousand has been given by the Greater Shahar Para Jubo Shongo for the development of education of Shahar Para Government Primary School. If any ideal social organization works for the overall development of the society and the country by implementing its main ...
Read More »Motorcyclist killed in Moulvibazar road mishap
A motorcyclist was killed after a private car hit him at Sreemangal upazila in Moulvibazar district on Saturday. The accident took place around 6:30 pm in Kakiabazar area. The deceased was identified as Foez Uddin, 50, hailed from Kamalganj upazila in the district. He used to work as generator operator at Noorjahan Hospital in Moulvibazar town. Sreemangal Highway Police Station ...
Read More »Child killed as landslide hits house in Sylhet
A child was killed in a landslide caused by heavy rainfall in Khadimnagar Tea Garden area in Sylhet’s Sadar early this morning. Archana Chhotri, 11, died when a part of a hillock collapsed on a house around 4:00am. The student of Class VI is the daughter of tea garden worker Bulbul Chhotri. Ataur Rahman, Khadimnagar UP member of Ward-9, confirmed ...
Read More »A city underwater: Sylhet submerged for third time this year
That’s the lesson Sylhet city is re-learning for the third time this year as it is under the onslaught of heavy rains and the flooding that accompanies it. Ward-6 Councilor of Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) Farhad Chowdhury Shamim is at a loss for what has just transpired. “We faced waterlogging again even though the city corporation cleared all the drains ...
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