Sylhet

Police have raided the Sylhet home of Shafiur Rahman Farabi, prime suspect of writer-blogger Avijit Roy’s murder. No one was at home during the search at the city’s Munshiparha on Sunday morning. Farabi’s mother and sister have been living there for one year. The apartment was locked from the outside, said Sylhet Metropolitan police’s Additional Deputy Commissioner Md Rahmat Ullah. ...

Unidentified miscreants attacked on the residences of BNP leader Dildar Hossain Selim in Sylhet city on Friday night. The houses were attacked belonged to Sylhet district BNP formar Vice-President Dildar Hossain Selim Security guard Abdur Razzak, who was on-duty Ali Complex also claimed of seeing over four person took off on foot at Selim house. officer-in-charge of Sylhet Kotwali police ...

Despite a government direction to resume academic activities in Sylhet schools during the ongoing hartal and blockade, the schools are yet to be become fully functional. School authorities said that the parents and guardians are afraid to send their children to schools due to the risk of arson attacks. The teachers, however, hoped that the situation will improve from next ...

Bean farming is gradually becoming popular here as more and more farmers are cultivating the vegetable on their lands. The vegetable, produced aplenty, is supplied to the local market after meeting up the local demand. Sources said, farmers are passing busy times in harvesting bean from their lands. Farming of bean requires less cost and time, so a number of ...

A cotton godown was burnt down in fire incident in Bagbari area of Sylhet city of the district on Friday evenning at 3 pm. Police and fire service sources said the fire had originated from a heap of cotton godown owned by Kamal Bording and engulfed the whole godown. On information, a fire-fighting team from Sylhet fire service station rushed ...

Rab-9 recovered a pistol, from the Dhopaghat area in Dakshin Surma upazila in Sylhet on Friday afternoon. At a press conference in the afternoon, commanding officer of Rab-9, told the media about Friday’s operation. He said acting on a tip-off, Rab members conducted a drive in the afternoon and seized the pistol in the Dakshin Surma. The drive would continue, ...

Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu is in favour of scrapping the practice of supplying gas through pipelines for use in vehicles and cooking purposes. No new licence for CNG filling stations should be given and renewal of the existing ones should be stopped, he says. He made the remarks during an interaction with the leaders of the Sylhet Chamber of ...

The supply of all kinds of vegetables in the city’s Subhanighat vegetable market has increased as vehicles including bus and truck are now running on the highways defying the nationwide nonstop hartal-blockade enforced by BNP-led 20-party alliance. Following the increase in supply, the prices of vegetables have come to the reach of Sylhet city people and the farmers, traders and ...

Sylhet city dwellers are facing serious sound pollution from hydraulic horns that are being used unabated in most of the vehicles here defying the Road Security Council’s ban. Moreover, the roadside restaurant and shop owners are playing songs in full volume using amps to attracted customers that is another prime reason behind the city’s sound pollution. This correspondent learnt that ...

A man who was injured in a clash between two groups of villagers over grabbing khas land in Gowainghat upazila on Monday died at Osmani Medical College Hospital on Friday. The deceased was identified as Mainul Islam,40, hailed from Gurkochi village of the upazila. He succumbed to his injuries at the hospital around 8 am, hospital sources said. With his ...