Sylhet

Moulvibazar and Juri Correspondent : Moulvibazar District Jamaat Acting Ameer Ameer Maulana Abdur Rahman has been arrested by the police. The police arrested him from Juri city around 1.30 pm on Friday. Maulana Abdur Rahman was the accused of arrest warrant No. 9 in the case of obstructing police work done at Juri police station on October 6, unlawful act ...

Komalganj (Moulvibazar) Correspondent : Police recovered the body of a man from Komalganj upazila in Moulvibazar district on Friday evening. The deceased was identified as Samir Mia, 42, son of Imtiaz Mia, a resident of Shatiji village under Shamshernagar union of the upazila. According to locals, they saw the body was fallen down behind a hospital at Mokam Bazaar area ...

Sylhet Office : Sylhet City Corporation has announced a Tk 925.4 crore budget for fiscal 2023-24. Mayor Ariful Haque Choudhury announced the budget at a press conference at the city’s Arambagh yesterday. This is Ariful’s last budget as he did not participate in the recent city polls and the newly-elected mayor will take over next month. In the budget, SCC ...

Habiganj Correspondent : A Habiganj court on Thursday sentenced five members of a family including husband to death for killing a pregnant housewife over dowry at Chunarughat upazila in the district in 2016. Besides, each of the accused was fined Tk 1 lakh. Habiganj District Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-2’s judge Md Zahidul Huque handed down the verdict in ...

Police arrested two alleged drug peddlers along with 16 kilograms of hemp from Shantiganj upazila in Sunamganj district on Wednesday morning. The arrested are Md Siddiqur Rahman, a resident of New Poinda village, and Anowar Hossain, 25, of Banipur village under Sunamganj Sadar upazila. Acting on a tip-off, a team of police led by Aftabuzzaman Regan and Safiul Islam sub-inspectors ...

Balaganj (Sylhet) Correspondent : Police recovered the floating body of an unidentified man from the Kushiara river at Balaganj upazila in Sylhet district on Wednesday. The identities of the deceased, aged around 25-26, could not be known immediately. Locals saw the body in the river near Balaganj Bus Station Kheyaghat and informed police around 9 am, said officer-in-charge of Balaganj ...

Derai ( Sunamganj) Correspondent : A man was reportedly killed and at least 10 others were injured in a gunfight between two groups at Derai upazila in Sunamganj district on Wednesday. The incident happened at Pukidor village under Jagdal union of the upazila in the morning. The deceased was Dulal, son of Alim Uddin, a resident of that village. According ...

A man was killed as a truck overturned into a ditch at Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar district on Tuesday afternoon. The accident took place at around 3.30pm in Krishnapur area under Bhatera union of the upazila. The deceased was identified as Suleman Mia, 40, son of late Samsul Haque, a resident of Nijampur village under Fenchuganj upazila of the district. Quoting locals, ...

Jaintiapur Upazila Correspondent : Two people were killed and 7 other were injured after a mini truck carrying them overturned after losing control on Sylhet-Tamabil Road in Jaintiapur upazila of Sylhet on Wednesday morning. The deceased were Jahangir, 30, and Moyamin, 28, both were the residents of Itapara area under Keraniganj upazila of Dhaka. The injured — Md Ripon, 22; ...

Rail connectivity with Dhaka and Chattogram, Sylhet and Kishoreganj has been restored after four hours of a train collision between a freight train and the Dhaka-bound Egarosindhur Express in Bhairab upazila of Kishoreganj district on Monday afternoon. Bangladesh Railway division commercial officer (Dhaka division) Shahalam Kiran Shishir confirmed the matter. Earlier, at least 20 were killed and several others injured ...