Sylhet

A memorial meeting was held in Sylhet on the occasion of the first death anniversary of language struggler, brave freedom fighter and former finance minister Abul Mal Abdul Muhith. On Sunday afternoon, the meeting held at the Shahid Soleiman Hall of the Central Muslim Literary Council was chaired by the convenor of the collective civic initiative, Bir Muktijoddha Md. Arsh ...

Police in separate drives arrested four alleged drug peddlers along with a total of 26 kilograms of hemp from Jamalganj and Shantiganj upazila of Sunamganj district from Friday night to Saturday morning. Jamalganj Police Station officer-in-charge Meer Md Abdun Naser said based on a secret information a team of police conducted a raid in a Bhairab- bound launch at Sachna ...

Nazrul Islam Babul, the Jatiya Party (JaPa) nominated candidate in the upcoming Sylhet City polls, has expressed anger after a top leader of his party publicly sought votes for the ruling Awami League nominated candidate Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury. Attending an election campaign programme organised by the ruling party candidate Anwaruzzaman in Sylhet city on Friday night, Yahya Chowdhury, the vice chairman ...

Communal fundamentalist forces are emerging at various levels of society and state structure; Culture activists have expressed fear that the anti-liberation war forces are creating division among people in the name of religion. They also warned the government that the allies of the defeated forces of the 1970s, who are hiding inside the administrative and social structures, can strike at ...

At the end of Baisakh, there is still no rain and hailstorm. Prolonged drought everywhere. There is a cry for rain all around. Cropland has dried up. As a result, there is a fear of disruption of Aush Abad. In this situation, Istiska prayers and special prayers have been organized for rain in Tatriuli village of Karmadha Union of Kulaura, ...

A man died from electrocution at Moiri village in Bahubal upazila of the district today. The deceased was identified as Jayanta Pal, 42, a resident of the village. He was an NGO worker. According to locals, the man came in contact with a live electric wire when he was setting a fan, leaving him critically injured. Family members took him ...

A woman was crushed under the wheels of a train at Fenchuganj upazila in Sylhet district on Thursday night. The identity of the deceased was not known immediately. It was learnt that a Sylhet bound-train from Dhaka hit the woman while she was crossing rail line in Mallickpur area at around 9:30 pm. Later, being informed, police recovered the body ...

Saud Al Arefin Paplu, a resident of Daudpur village of Baramchal, Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar, went missing while performing Umrah with his family. He went missing while doing Tawaf of the Holy Kaaba Sharif with his mother and brother on May 8. After searching around, the family did not find any trace of him. The disappearance was later reported to ...

A Sylhet court on Wednesday placed 13 BNP and Chhatra Dal leaders and activists on a one-day remand in a case over alleged involvement in police assault and obstruction of government work. Sylhet Kotwali police station arrested them on Tuesday and produced them in court seeking a five-day remand for each. However, Sylhet Metropolitan Magistrate third court Judge Sharmin Khanam ...

Two people were killed and five others injured in a crash between a private car and CNG- run auto rickshaw on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Nabiganj upazila of Habiganj district on Wednesday afternoon. The accident took place at Fultali Bazaar area under Gaznaipur union of the upazila at around 3.00 pm. The deceased were identified as the auto rickshaw passengers ...