Sylhet

Two people were killed and three others injured after a truck hit a CNG-run auto rickshaw in Habiganj’s Nabiganj upazila on Sunday. The accident took place on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in in Aushkandi area in the afternoon. Deceased Akib Mia, 60, hailed from Kishoreganj’s Mithamoin upazila, and Surchand Begum, 35, was a resident of Char Katkal village in the upazila. ...

Seven people were injured after a tourist-carrying jeep overturned inside Lawachara National Park in Moulvibazar’s Kamalganj upazila on Saturday. The injured were Sanchita, 40, Milon Sarker, 40, Dipika Banik, 40, Mita Saha, 42, Tofael, 25, Hridita Saha, 13, and Uma Rani, 46. Abhijit Sarker, a passenger of the jeep, said the jeep overturned after its driver got down from it ...

Advocate Ataur Rahman Shamim, vice-president of Awami League’s (AL) Kulaura Upazila of Moulvibazar and senior lawyer of Bangladesh Supreme Court, died in a fire in a multi-storied building at Bailey Road in the capital Dhaka. Confirming his death, the deceased’s nephew Tarek Hasan said that Ataur Rahman Shamim is a resident of Sreepur village in Brahmanbazar union of Kulaura upazila. ...

Two people, including a woman, were killed and four more injured after a pickup van and a CNG-run autorickshaw collided head-on on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Dakshin Surma upazila of Sylhet on Thursday afternoon. The deceased were Nazma Begum, 43, wife of Sona Mia of Companiganj upazila of the district, and autorickshaw driver Mansur Ali, 27, son of Dhanai Mia ...

Transport workers in Sylhet withdrew their indefinite strike on Wednesday afternoon, after nine and a half hours. The decision came after the transport workers’ leaders held a meeting with Sylhet’s deputy commissioner and the city mayor at the district administration’s conference hall on Wednesday afternoon. They called the indefinite strike from 6am on Wednesday to press home their five-point demand, ...

Transport workers in Sylhet have been on indefinite strike from 6am on Wednesday to press home their five-point demand, including an end to the gas crisis. The strike will be observed till further notice. No long-route transports were found to leave Sylhet. People, especially SSC candidates, are facing trouble for this sudden strike. Meanwhile, tourists from different districts got stuck ...

Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Faruk Khan said on Tuesday that the development work of Osmani Airport will be completed within the next 2-3 years. “The slow pace of development work in different countries of the world is an inevitable reality. There are many international crises, including dollars, in our country. For these reasons, it is taking some time to ...

A CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver was allegedly stabbed to death on Sunday night in Moulvibazar’s Kamalganj upazila. The victim was Soab Ali, a resident of Munshibazar area under the upazial. In the incident, police arrested two people in Uttar Munsibazar area of the upazila around 9:30 pm. Rajnagar Police Station Officer-in-Charge (Investigation) Mirza Mazharul Anwar said the victim Soab Ali had ...

Police arrested a woman and a man along with 10 kg of cannabis at Dharmapasha upazila in Sunamganj district on Sunday night. The arrested were Khokon Mia, 55, hailed from Kasba upazila in Brahmanbaria district, and Banesa Begum, 45, from Akhaura upazila of the same district. According to police, on a tip-off, police conducted a drive at Sarishakanda Islampur village ...

Sylhet Zone of Islami Bank Bangladesh PLC has organised the Agent Banking Business Development Conference and a workshop on the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing on Thursday. The events took place at a local hotel on Thursday. Mohammed Monirul Moula, managing director and CEO of the bank, addressed the conference as the chief guest on a virtual platform. ...