Sylhet

A university student was allegedly stabbed to death by unidentified miscreants in Sylhet’s Balaganj upazila on Monday afternoon. The deceased was Atiqur Rahman, 25, son of Ekhlasur Rahman, a resident of Bongaon village under Dewabazar union of the upazila. He was a student of North East University in Sylhet. According to police, some young men stabbed Atiqur in front of ...

Three people were killed after a truck hit another one standing on the road in Sylhet’s Osmani Nagar upazila early Monday. The accident happened at about 4:50am at Soargaon area on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway. The deceased could not be identified yet. According to Osmani Nagar Police Station SI Milton the driver and helper of a Sylhet-bound truck were repairing their ...

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested the truck driver in connection with the road accident that left 15 construction workers dead in Sylhet on Wednesday (June 7). The driver Shafiqul Islam, 27, resident of Sherpur’s Moksedpur village, was arrested from Patuakhali district on Saturday. RAB-9 Media Officer and Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police Afsan-al-Alam informed this to media on Sunday in ...

  Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Habibul Awal has said the election commission (EC) will monitor Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) polls through CCTV, and if a voter is unable to vote properly, they should shout and the EC will take necessary actions. “We will monitor the situation at all polling centres of the Sylhet City Corporation polls from Dhaka through ...

Sylhet Metropolitan Police has arrested 3 people in the Sylhet City Corporation election in front of the rival candidate’s house with weapons. Sylhet Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner of Police Sudeep Das confirmed the matter. The arrested are Atiqur Rahman (42), son of Mofizur Rahman of Noorani area of Bankalapara of the city. Zuber Ahmad (38) son of deceased Akram Ali ...

Among the candidates contesting for the general and reserved women councilor posts in the Sylhet City Corporation elections, 92 are ‘self-educated’. Apart from this, 76 candidates could not pass the secondary level. Two candidates are ‘signature wise’. This information is known by going through the affidavits submitted by the candidates to the Returning Officer. On June 21, the EVM voting ...

As a relief from the intense heat wave, a heavy rain fell in Sylhet. After 2 pm on Friday, it rained briefly in the city. It has given some relief from the heat that has been going on for the past few days. The temperature has dropped quite a bit. However, after two days, the temperature may rise again, Bangladesh ...

The government has completed all the preparations for the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha sacrifice with native cows. This year there are about 2 lakh 12 thousand sacrificial animals in Sylhet division. There are 1 crore 25 lakh sacrificial animals across the country, which is 375 thousand more than last year. The Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock is in a strict position to ...

People’s lives disrupted by the intense heat. There is still no rain and hail. Prolonged drought everywhere. There is a cry for rain all around. In this situation, Istiska prayers and special prayers have been organized for rain in Moulvibazar. Today Thursday (June 8) in the morning of Maulvibazar town, the religious scholars and religious Muslims performed this prayer in ...

Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST ) ex-students meeting ‘Sustaien Re-Union 2023’ was held in Germany. On June 3 and 4, this reunion was held for the third time on the soil of Germany under the initiative of Sustaien-DE. According to the organizers, more than 150 former Sustaien living in different parts of Germany and their families participated in ...