Sylhet

Sunamganj Correspondent : The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested another suspect in the killing of Amirul Haque Parvez, a police constable, during the violent clashes stemming from the BNP’s antigovernment rally in Dhaka on Oct 28. The arrestee, Ansar Uddin, is the president of Jubo Dal’s Sunamganj wing, according to the RAB. He was arrested in Sylhet on Friday, according ...

A local Chhatra League leader was killed and four others were injured in a road accident in Moulvibazar’s Sreemangal upazila early Thursday. Deceased Tarek Chowdhury, 22, was a joint general secretary of BCL Sreemangal Govt College unit. Witnesses said a private car heading to Moulvibazar from Sreemangal lost control and collided with a roadside tree in Noagaon area of the ...

A student of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) was found dead at Salutikor area under Gowainghat upazila in Sylhet district early Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Rakibul Hasan Sifat, a third year student of the Chemistry Department of the university. Md Khalique, sub-inspector of Gowainghat Police Station, said being informed by locals police recovered the body of ...

An officer-in-charge (OC) of South Surma police station Md Shamsuddoha was injured in a misfire by a constable at South Surma upazila in Sylhet district on Tuesday morning. The incident took place at Satmile in Lalabazar area under the upazila. He was injured by a bullet suddenly fired from the shotgun of the personal assistant of the Assistant Commissioner of ...

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 ...