Sylhet

Awami League candidates, including former minister Nurul Islam Nahid, have won five out of six constituencies in Sylhet. Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury, a former BNP minister and incumbent chairman of the Trinamool BNP, came in third in Nahid’s Sylhet-6 seat in the national polls held on Sunday. According to unofficial results, Nahid bagged 57,758 votes while Shamsher polled 10,000 votes. Second-placed ...

Barrister Sayedul Haque Sumon emerged victorious in the national election for the Habiganj-4 seat, defeating the Awami League candidate and incumbent State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism Md Mahbub Ali. Sumon, who ran as an independent candidate, secured 1.98 lakh votes, while two-time Awami League lawmaker Mahbub Ali received 47,000 votes, as per the locally announced election results. A ...

Former chairman of Public Service Commission (PSC) Dr Mohammad Sadique has unofficially been elected in Sunamganj-4 (Sadar-Biswaramvarpur) constituency. He bagged 91,100 votes while his nearest rival Jatiya Party’s candidate and former MP Advocate Fazlur Rahman got 31,700 votes. The total number of polling centres in the constituency are 112, while the total number of voters are 3,41,829. Of them, 1,73,366 ...

MP of Sylhet 2 (Bishwanath-Osmaninagar) constituency and candidate from Ganaforum Mokabbir Khan, along with three other candidates, on Sunday withdrew from the 12th national parliamentary election, alleging rigging and expulsion of agents from polling stations. The three other candidates were Biswanath Mayor independent candidate Muhibur Rahman, Trinamool BNP nominated candidate Mohammad Abdur Rab, and Jatiya Party candidate Yahya Chowdhury. They ...

Miscreants torched two polling centres of Chunarughat upazila in Habiganj district, early Saturday. The polling centres are Dhalaipar Government Primary School and Ekdala Government Primacry School in Chunarughat municipal area. Nilima Raihana, upazila nirbahi officer, of Chunarughat upazila, confirmed the matter. The incident took place around 12:15am. On hearing about the incident, she rushed to the spot. He said that ...

Miscreants set Garakata Government Primary School, a designated polling centre, on fire in Madhyanagar of Sunamganj early on Saturday. Locals and police quickly brought the fire under control, but the wooden doors and windows saw some damage. The polling centre is located 15km from Madhyanagar police station. The only transportation options available are motorcycles and boats. Additionally, due to the ...

The Jatiya Party (JaPa) nominated candidate for Moulvibazar-1 constituency, Riaz Uddin withdrew his candidacy from the 12th general election on Saturday, a day ahead of the polls. He announced the decision on a video posted in his facebook timeline on Saturday afternoon. He stated on the video that he withdrew his candidate due to the lack of fair polls environment. ...

A driver and a helper were injured when arsonists set fire to a truck on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Sylhet’s Dakshin Surma upazila early today. Injured truck driver Afzol Miah, 30, of Shyampur in Sylhet city, and helper Joynul Abedin, 18, of Konagaon village in Moulvibazar’s Kamalganj upazila are undergoing treatment at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital. Md Yardous ...

A polling centre was set on fire at sadar upazila in Moulvibazar on Friday night. The arson took place at Sabia Government Primary School under Chandnighat union of the upazila. Eyewitnesses said around 8 pm, four youths on two motorcycles took a position outside the gate of the school and threw kerosene in a plastic bottle inside the school. When ...

Police arrested four BNP men, including three BNP leaders, from a procession march held at Ambarkhana area in Sylhet city on Friday. The arrested are Fisheries Secretary of district unit BNP Jalal Khan, Sylhet city unit leader Ali Haider Moznu, BNP leader Akbar and an activist, who could not be identified immediately. According to BNP sources, a procession march and ...