Sylhet

Habiganj Correspondent : Three women were killed and at least 15 injured in a collision between a truck and a pickup van in Habiganj’s Bahubal upazila early Friday. The accident took place on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway’s Mouchak area around 2am. The deceased were Manjila Begum, 45, Tanzila Begum, 35, and Shahinur Begum, 45. All of them were the residents of ...

Four people, including a couple, were held with 50 kgs of hemp from Chunarughat of Habiganj district on Friday night. Police said they arrested the a couple –Faruk Mia, 55, son of Ansar Ali of the upazila, and his wife, with 30 kgs of hemp from their house at Kalishiri village of Ahmdabad union of the upazila. Meanwhile, RAB-9 of ...

The Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) said the electricity supply across Habiganj town will be halted for 8 hours on Saturday (May 27) for the repair work of the transmission line. According to BPDB, there will be no electricity in the entire town from 8 am to 4 pm on this day. Rakibul Islam, the assistant engineer of Habiganj, confirmed ...

Staff Reporter : Awami League nominated chairman candidate Nurul Islam has been elected Jagannathpur Upazila Parishad chairman. Nurul Islam got 22,212 votes while his nearest independent candidate Syed Talha Alam got 11,203 votes. Jagannathpur Upazila Parishad control room announced the results on thursday night.

Moulvibazar Government College Vice Principal Professor Saifuddin Ahmed has been appointed as the new Vice Principal of Sylhet’s traditional Murarichand (MC) College. He is an officer of 14th BCS. This information is known from the circular signed by Chowdhury Samia Yasmin, Deputy Secretary of Secondary and Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education on Wednesday. On August 24, 2022, ...

At least 15 houses, 10 cows, 20 maunds of paddy, furniture and cash taka were gutted in a fire at Holimpur village under Nabiganj upazila of the district in the early hours of today. The fire originated from an electric short circuit at a house of the village around 2am and soon engulfed the adjacent houses. As a result, 15 ...

A couple has submitted their nomination papers to compete in the upcoming Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) elections slated for June 21. Abdul Hanif Kutu, a former Chhatra League leader, submitted a nomination paper for the mayoral post and his wife Naznin Akhter Kona submitted a nomination paper for the councillor post (reserved seat-7). Syed Kamal Hossain, an official (media cell) ...

A housewife was killed after being bitten by a snake at Kamalganj upazila in Moulvibazar district on Tuesday afternoon. The dead was Jharna Singha, 27, wife of Babul Singha, a resident of Hiramati village under Madhabpur union of the upazila. Locals said Jharna Singha was working near the cowshed of their house in the afternoon. At that time, a poisonous ...

A teenage boy was killed and three others were injured in a lightning strike at Dharmapasha upazila in Sunamganj district on Tuesday morning. The dead was Omar Faruk, 15, son of late Alim Uddin, a resident of Badeharipur village under Joysree union. It was known that two farmers and two teenagers were going to Madhyanagar Bazar by an engine-driven boat ...

Moulvibazar District Awami League held a protest march and rally against the threat to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. On Monday (May 22) at noon, the procession left the city’s Shaheed Minar premises and circled the Court Road and held a short rally at Central Road under the leadership of District Awami League President Neshar Ahmad MP and General Secretary ...