The Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre on Thursday assessed that the flood situation in the low-lying areas of Sylhet division, especially in Sylhet, Sunamganj and Moulvibazar districts, was expected to improve if the decrease in the water level of Surma-Kushiyara rivers continued over the next 72 hours...
Over one lakh people were stranded in floodwater with scores of families moving to temporary shelters opened by the government as vast swathes of land remained under water in the northeastern region on Wednesday, two days before Eid-ul-Azha...
Niaz Ahmed from Sylhet has won a Royal Enfield motorcycle by referring bKash app to the highest number of people during a bKash app referral campaign, said a press release...
The death toll from disasters unleashed by the latest depression from the Bay of Bengal climbed to 15 on Sunday amid record rainfalls that triggered landslides and flash floods in the country’s northeast region, especially in Sylhet.
Indian Border Security Force pushed 172 more people into Bangladesh through borders in Sylhet, Moulvibazar and Meherpur districts on Sunday.
Private airline Air Astra is set to resume its flights on the Dhaka-Sylhet route from May 29, aiming to facilitate travel for passengers ahead of the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha...
Water levels of all major rivers in the Sylhet region have kept rising rapidly due to heavy rainfall for a few days, triggering fear of flash floods...
A mob handed over a leader of banned Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of the Awami League which is also facing a ban on its activities, to police after giving him a beating at Golapganj in Sylhet on Wednesday night...
Former minister for expatriates’ welfare and overseas employment of the ousted Awami League government Imran Ahmed was admitted to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital on Wednesday morning after he fell sick at Sylhet Central Jail...
Pace duo Khaled Ahmed and Anamul Haque shone bright as Bangladesh ‘A’ dominated the opening day of their first four-day match against their New Zealand counterparts at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on Wednesday...
The United States Embassy in Dhaka Charge D’Affaires and acting ambassador to Bangladesh Tracey Ann Jacobson paid a courtesy call to Sylhet City Corporation administrator Khan Mohammas Reza-Un-Nabi, also Sylhet divisional commissioner, at the Nagar Bhaban in Sylhet city on Tuesday noon.
Rail communications between the capital Dhaka and six other districts were suspended for several hours following three incidents of derailment on Friday night and early Saturday.
The third cargo flight from Sylhet Osmani International Airport departed for Spain on Thursday night.
Workers of three tea gardens and a factory under Burjan Tea Estate in Sylhet on Wednesday agreed to join work on Friday after receiving assurances from the authorities that their wage arrears and allowances would be paid...
EXPORT earnings from tea gardens in the country have been progressively on the rise amid allegations of gross violations of tea workers’ rights. About 2,600 tea garden workers of Burjan Tea Company blocked the Sylhet Airport Highway on May 4 for several hours, demanding their wage arrears and allowances. Protesting workers reported that their wages and food...
Workers of three tea gardens in Sylhet on Sunday blocked the Sylhet Airport road demanding their wage arrears and allowances...
Nurul Hasan Sohan is set to lead Bangladesh A team in the three-match one-day series against their New Zealand counterparts starting at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium today...
Tea workers in Sylhet threatened to block Sylhet Airport road on Sunday, to press home their 11-point demand including payment of their dues...
The Institutional Quality Assurance Cell of Sylhet Agricultural University on Tuesday organised a daylong training programme on outcome-based education on the campus.
Police on Sunday recovered the body of a stone worker who went missing after a stone-laden boat capsized in the Jaflong area under Gowainghat upazila of Sylhet...
The inaugural freighter flight, full of cargo, took off Sylhet’s Osmani International Airport Sunday evening.
An expatriate died after being struck by lightning in Sylhet’s Gowainghat upazila on Friday afternoon..
Mehidy Hasan Miraz took his second five-wicket haul of the match but couldn’t prevent Zimbabwe from sealing a thrilling three-wicket win over Bangladesh in the first of the two-match Test series at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on Wednesday...
Bangladesh will certainly be looking to get back on the winning track on home soil when they take on Zimbabwe in a two-match Test series that starts at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on April 20...
An activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League, banned student organisation of the Awami League, was stabbed to death allegedly by his BCL rival group in Sylhet on Tuesday night...
A teenage girl allegedly committed suicide after being resisted from using mobile phone by her mother in Sylhet on Sunday...
Three suspected smugglers along with smuggled goods from India and China were arrested in Sylhet on Friday night...
The hanging body of a vegetable vendor was recovered from a tree in a haor at Osmani Nagar upazila in Sylhet on Friday noon....
Seven people, suspected to be supporters of Awami League and its associate bodies, were arrested on charge of bringing out a procession in favour of the Bangladesh Chhatra League, a banned organisation, in Sylhet early Thursday...
At least 15 people were injured early Wednesday as the supporters of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its youth front Juba Dal locked in a clash in Sylhet over establishing supremacy in the area...
