Sylhet

Transport owners and workers in Sylhet have declared an indefinite strike across the district starting from 6:00 AM on Tuesday, demanding action on six major issues, including the reopening of stone quarries and amendments to the Road Transport Act. The announcement was made on Monday evening at a press conference held at a hotel in Sylhet city by the Sylhet ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has warned that any delay in holding national elections will only set Bangladesh further behind, stifling investment, eroding women’s safety, weakening the judiciary, and undermining law and order. He stressed that the country urgently needs an elected government backed by the people. Speaking on Monday afternoon at a prayer gathering ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has expressed his hope that the interim government will arrange the national elections in February. Speaking to reporters in Sylhet on Monday morning after visiting the shrine of Hazrat Shahjalal (RA), he said, “Democracy can be established and the country can move forward in the right direction through polls. The elections in February ...

A 21-year-old man was killed after sustaining burns in Sylhet’s Biswanath Upazila. Khaled Ahmed, son of Lal Mia from Karpara village in Daulatpur Union, succumbed to his injuries while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Dhaka early Sunday (6 July). Khaled was employed at a local car workshop. According to local sources, Khaled returned home from work on the night ...

A goods transport strike in Sylhet, over five demands including the reopening of all stone quarries, witnessed a lukewarm response today (5 July) due to internal disagreements among workers’ groups. The Sylhet District Goods Transport Owners-Workers Unity Council called the strike programme on Wednesday to press home five-point demands, which also include halting the destruction of crusher machines, an end ...

One individual died and eleven others were injured in a road mishap at Osmaninagar upazila in Sylhet district on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Raju, 26 of Nagardia village under Nagarkanda upazila in Faridpur district. According to locals, two passenger buses collided head-on on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway near Kurabazar area in the upazila, leaving one died and eleven others ...

Two shops in Sunamganj were fined a total of Tk 35,000 for selling expired goods and providing customers with less than the accurate weight. The fines were imposed during a joint drive conducted today by the Sunamganj District Administration and the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI). The operation aimed to raise awareness among both businesses and consumers about product ...

Police have arrested three young men in Sylhet’s Kanaighat Upazila on charges of abducting and gang-raping a mentally challenged girl. A local court sent the accused to jail on Friday (July 4). The arrested individuals are Shuvankar Das (27), a microbus driver from Umagor village in Kanaighat’s Sadar union; Babul Ahmed (28), a CNG auto-rickshaw driver from Beerdol Kochupara village; ...

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) has pushed 48 Bangladeshi nationals into Bangladesh through Pallathal border under Barlekha upazila in Moulvibazar district. The group was detained early Thursday morning (July 3) by Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB). According to sources from the 52 BGB Battalion, the individuals—who include 18 children, 15 men, and 15 women—were found wandering near Pallathal Punji, a remote ...

Two people including a woman were killed and four others injured in a collision between a microbus and a truck on the Sylhet-Dhaka highway in Nabiganj upazila of the district today. The deceased were identified as Anwara Begum, a resident of Pabna district and microbus driver Nayeem Ahmed Joy, 27, a resident of Subidbazar area in Sylhet city. The incident ...