Sylhet

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has launched an investigation into the large-scale looting of white stones in Bholaganj, under Sylhet’s Companiganj upazila. A nine-member ACC team visited the Sada Pathor area this afternoon to collect evidence and statements from locals and administration. Ashraf Uddin, assistant director at ACC’s Sylhet office, said, “We found evidence of illegal stone extraction during our spot ...

A housewife’s suspicious death occurred at Derai upazila in Sunamganj district on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Soma Akter, 21, wife of Kayes Mia of Chandipur village under Derai municipality. According to locals, family members took Soma to Derai Upazila Health Complex in serious condition when the on-duty doctors declared her dead. Soma’s in-laws are claiming that Soma committed ...

A powerful syndicate is allegedly plundering stones from Bholaganj’s Sadapathor quarry with the help of a few local influential figures and corrupt members of the police. Once a thriving tourist destination, the area has now lost much of its scenic beauty. Although the administration claims to be conducting regular mobile court drives, in reality, the looting continues unabated. Local resident ...

Bangladesh Army has arrested a youth with hemp from Derai upazila in Sunamganj district on Sunday night. The arrested is Md Wasir Mia, a resident of Matiapur village in Karimpur union of the upazila. Acting on a tip-off, a team of army officials led by Major Asif Rana conducted a drive and arrested Wasir from his residence. They also seized ...

Members of RAB-9 has arrested seven individuals, including Azmal Hossain, who had introduced himself as a “coordinator,” in connection with an extortion case on the river route in Gowainghat, Sylhet. The arrested were handed over to Gowainghat police on Sunday (August 10) afternoon. Earlier, the arrests were made around 3:00 AM during a raid in Shayestaganj, Habiganj, based on a ...

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered the body of a BGB member from a river at Gowainghat upazila in Sylhet district on Sunday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Masum Billah, a member of the BGB-48 battalion. According to BGB, Masum drowned in the river while a BGB boat tried to stop and collided with an Indian boat carrying smuggled goods ...

A Jubo Dal activist was stabbed to death around midnight on Saturday in the Golapganj municipality area of Sylhet. The deceased was Rony Hossain, 26, killed reportedly an hour after he made a Facebook post about a former Chhatra Dal leader’s alleged extramarital affair. The former Chhatra Dal leader in question is Sheikh Raju, 35, former organizing secretary of the ...

Two individuals were arrested with huge quantities of Indian smuggled goods from Beanibazar upazila of Sylhet district on Saturday morning. The arrested are Zahed Ahmed, 24 and Hasan Imran, 20; both are residents of Satpari village in Kanaighat upazila of the district. Acting on a tip-off, police searched a stone-laden truck on the Kaskatkha-Lalpur Bridge in the area and arrested ...

The National Citizens Party’s Sylhet district joint coordinator Abul Ahsan Jabur, also elder brother of ATM Turab, a journalist who was martyred during the last year’s July uprising, resigned from the party on Thursday night. Turab, a regional daily’s photo-journalist, was shot to death allegedly by the police during a clash between the students and the law enforcers in Zindabazar ...

A man was stabbed to death in public in Sylhet on Thursday night (August 7). The incident occurred around 11:30 PM near the city’s Queen Bridge area. The victim was identified as Dalim, 35, son of Lokman Mia from Merenga village in Mymensingh district. Police suspect that the killing was linked to a mugging attempt. According to locals, the attacker ...