Sylhet

Four houses and a grocery shop were completely gutted in a fire that broke out at Shantiganj upazila in Sunamganj district on Wednesday. The incident occurred at Joysiddhi village under West Birgaon union in the upazila. According to victims, the fire resulted a damage of over Tk 10 lakh. According to witnesses, the fire originated from a kitchen of a ...

Four individuals have been sentenced to death on the charge of attempting to frame another person after killing a woman at Nabiganj upazila in Habiganj district in 2014. Habiganj Additional District and Session Judge AKM Kamal Uddin delivered the verdict in the absence of four convicts. The condemned convicts are Al Amin of Madanpur village, Sadar Alki, of Manayanagar, Taj ...

Police arrested six fugitives with arrest warrants at Shantiganj upazila Sunamganj district on Sunday. A team of Shantiganj Police Station conducted an operation in different areas across the upazila and arrested them. The arrested individuals are Amir Uddin, 39, from Joykolos village under Joykolos Union; Abdur Rup,44, from Gazinagar village under Patharia Union; Abdul Kadir, 31, and Abdur Rob, 48; ...

An alleged youth was arrested over a child murder case at Kamalganj upazila in Moulvibazar district on Saturday. The arrested youth is Dibas Rangot, a resident of Shamser Nagar union under the upazila. He has been arrested after 17 days of the incident. According to the case statement, the accused and another man trying to rape a 10-year old girl ...

At least 25 people were injured in a clash between of two groups of villagers at Shantiganj upazila in Sunamganj district on Saturday. The incident occurred over organising a traditional event around 10:00 AM at Thakurbhog village field under Birgaon union in the upazila Locals said that Nur Miah of Thakurbhog village locked in an altercation with Sufi Miah and ...

Police recovered the body of a 50-year-old man from a residential hotel in Sylhet’s sadar upazila on Thursday afternoon. The body of Shamsul Alam, a resident of Mirpur-12 in Dhaka, was recovered from Lalbazar area in the upazila. Confirming the matter, Kotwali Model Police Station Officer-in-Charge Md Ziaul Haque said that Shamsul had arrived in Sylhet for business purposes on ...

Police on Wednesday arrested an Awami League leader from Sunamganj’s Shantiganj upazila as part of the nationwide Operation Devil Hunt. The arrested, Nur Alam, 42, son of Abdul Wahab Mia, a resident of Tehkia village in the upazila, is the general secretary of Patharia Union Parishad AL. Shantiganj Police Station officer-in-charge Akram Ali Khan confirmed the matter and said that ...

Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) has fined four shops due to not selling products at fair prices in Moulvibazar. An operation led by Special Task Force Committee President Additional Deputy Commissioner (General) Bulbul Ahmed and Assistant Director of Moulvibazar DNCRP Md. Al Amin, conducted monitoring and awareness activities in various places across the sadar upazila. Other members of ...

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested three individuals, including two Indian nationals from Chunarughat border area in Habiganj district on Saturday. The arrested are Indian national Suman Das, 41, son of Nepal Das, Shamvu Das, son of Dhanesh Das, hailing from Agartala and Mohammad Amir, 30, son of Helal Uddin, hailing from Srimongal upazila in Moulvibazar district. Habiganj 55-BGB conducted a ...

A mobile court has jailed two individuals over illegally excavating topsoil from agricultural land at Dharmapasha upazila in Sunamganj district on Saturday. The raid, led by Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Jani Roy, was conducted from 12:00PM to 3:00 PM at Bhatgaon village under Paikurati union in the upazila. The accused men are Apan Sarker, 22, was a five-day imprisonment and ...