Sylhet

Sunamganj Correspondent : The indefinite bus strike that Sunamganj District Road Transport Workers’ Union enforced Sunday morning demanding an end to extortion from the bus drivers on Sylhet bypass road has been withdrawn. Nurul Haque, general secretary of the union said the strike was withdrawn in the afternoon. Deputy Commissioner of the district Md Jahangir Hossain and Additional Superintendent of ...

Sunamganj Correspondent : District Transport Workers Union went on an indefinite bus strike on Sunday morning demanding an end to extortion from the bus drivers on Sylhet bypass road, causing immense sufferings to people. Nurul Haque, general secretary of Sunamganj District Transport Workers Union, said some extortionists have been realizing Tk 50 per bus on Sylhet bypass road from September ...

Two people of a family were killed and four others injured in a collision between a private car and a pickup van in Golapganj Upazila of the district today. The deceased were identified as Shafiq Uddin, 70, hailed from Beanibazar Upazila and his grandson Aryan, 01. Police said the accident occurred at around 11:30 am at Ranaping Fazilpur on Sylhet-Jockyganj ...

Moulvibazar Correspondent : Miscreants today set fire to an excavator while it was evicting illegal occupiers from Bangladesh Railway’s land at Bhanugachha Road in Sreemangal, Moulvibazar. “A suspect named Suleman Mia (30) was arrested in connection with the arson,” said Inspector Nayan Karkun of Sreemangal Police Station, reports our Moulvibazar correspondent. “Upon receiving the news, a team of fire service ...

Advisor to Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson and former whip in the Jatiya Sangsad, Fazlul Haque Aspia, died of Dengu in a hospital in Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Wednesday. He was 85. Sunamganj district BNP office secretary Jamal Uddin Baker said that the BNP leader died in Bangladesh Specialised Hospital while undergoing treatment there. Aspia was elected lawmaker four times from ...

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in association Green Climate Fund (GCF), organized a local level consultation workshop on the strategies needed to adapt due to the changing climate. The objective of the consultation was to share the findings of different climate vulnerability issues generated from Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and ...

Police have arrested an RNB (Railway Nirapatta Bahini) member for allegedly raping an eight-year-old mentally challenged girl in south Surma upazila in Sylhet. Nazmul Hossain, 45, hailing from Gopinathpur area of Raypura police station in Narsingdi, was sent to jail after being produced in court on Tuesday. South Surma police station OC (Investigation) Kamrul Hasan Talukder confirmed the matter and ...

Two people died from electrocution in Madhabpur upazila of the district on Monday. The deceased were Shujan Miah, 27, son of Sadark Miah, resident of Bara Chandura village in Andiura union in Madhabpur upazila of the district and Shahed Miah, 35, son of late Kala Miah, resident of Chankhabulla village in Bulla union in Madhabpur upazila of the district. Officer-in-Charge ...

At least four people have been found involved in the robbery of a booth of United Commercial Bank Ltd (UCBL) at Osmaninagar in Sylhet, according to police. The matter was learned after monitoring the closed circuit camera (CC) footage of the booth, but no of them have yet been arrested so far. However, a team comprising senior police officials and ...

Habibur Rahman, who has been elected as the member of the parliament (MP) after winning the by-elections to Sylhet-3 constituency of parliament recently, has taken oath. Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhuri administered his oath at Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban’s oath room on Sunday. He was elected as the lawmaker with Awami League nomination. Ruling Awami League chief whip Noor-e-Alam Chowdhury and ...