Sylhet

Habiganj district Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) president Mosharraf Hossain Arif Bappi has been relieved of his post after his 3 minutes 39 seconds obscene video clip with a girl went viral on social media. He was relieved of from the organisation by a letter signed by BCL central president Saddam Hossain and general secretary Sheikh Wali Asif Enan on Sunday. ...

Two more people, who were undergoing treatment at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery (SHNIBPS) in Dhaka with burn injuries, died on Monday, raising the death toll from an explosion at a Sylhet CNG filling station to four. The deceased were identified as Tarek Ahmed, 32, son of Gias Uddin of Sadar upazila and Badal Das, 41, ...

A local union parishad chairman and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leader were killed in a road accident on the Sylhet-Companiganj highway at Gowainghat Upazila in Sylhet district early Sunday. The accident took place at around 12.30am in Salutikor Mitrimohol area of the upazila. The deceased were identified as Md Obaidullah Ishaque, 30, chairman of Jalalabad union of Sylhet Sadar upazila ...

A team of Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) in a drive here today realized Taka 15,000 as fine from the owner of three potato business establishments for selling potato at higher prices and not providing vouchers to buyers at Chashi markets in the district town. The Ministry of Commerce for the first time in the country fixed the ...

Zakiganj (Sylhet) Correspondent :  Two college students were killed after a bus crushed them at Zakiganj upazila in Sylhet district on Friday. The incident took place on the Sylhet-Zakiganj road around 5:00 pm. The deceased were Mehedi Hasan, 20, son of Hossain Ahmed, and Mahadi Hasan Rahat, 18, son of Shahid Ahmed, hailed from Kanaighat upazila in the district. Mehedi ...

Habiganj’s Bahubal police station officer-in-charge Rakibul Islam Khan took the Air Conditioners (AC) installed at his office and government quarters along with him after he was transferred. The ACs were installed from the fund of Test Relief (TR), which was meant for poor people. Local member of parliament (MP) Gazi Mohammad Shahnawaz facilitated the process of installing ACs using the ...

A local Awami League leader was killed and two others were injured in a head-on collision between a CNG-run auto-rickshaw and a truck at Charkhai area in Sylhet’s Beanibazar upazila on Monday night. The deceased was identified as Fakhrul Islam, 45, son of late Rois Miah of Parkul Barabari of Rajaganj Union of Kanighat upazila of Sylhet. He was the ...

A man was killed and four others were injured in a road accident in Baniachong upazila of Habiganj district on Sunday night. The accident took place at around 9pm on the Ikram-Alam Bazar regional road of the upazila. The deceased was identified as Chan Mia, 55, son of Suruj Mia, a resident of North Sangar village of the upazila. Quoting ...

A woman and his young son were killed in a road accident in Sylhet’s Osmani Nagar upazila on Sunday night. The accident happened at about 8:30pm on the Sylhet-Dhaka highway. The deceased were Salma Begum, 52, and his son Abdul Kaiyum, 32. They used to live at a rented house in Ilashpur area. Eye witnesses said a private car from ...

A teenage school girl reportedly committed suicide by hanging with the ceiling of her room in Lakhai upazila under Habiganj district on Sunday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Jannatul Ferdous, 15, daughter of Liakat Ali, a resident of Fulbaria village under the upazila. She was an eighth grader of Murakari High School. Quoting locals, police said Jannatul took her ...