2 teenagers die at tourist spots in Sylhet
Two teenage visitors died in tourist spots, Sada Pathar and Jaflong in Sylhet during Eid-ul-Fitr holidays...
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Handcuffed AL leader snatched from police
A handcuffed Awami League leader was snatched away from the police after attacking a police van at Osmani Nagar in Sylhet on Tuesday...
Folk artiste Sushama Dash dies in Sylhet
Ekushey Padak-winning folk artiste Sushma Dash died at her home of Hawlader Para in Sylhet on Wednesday...
Indian nationals shot at two Bangladeshis
Indian Khasia people allegedly shot at least two Bangladeshis near the Bichhnakandi border at Gowainghat upazila in Sylhet on Wednesday night...
4 girls raped, 3 others survive rape attempts
At least six new incidents of rape and attempt to rape had come to light since Friday following filing of police cases in Bogura, Nilphamari, Natore, Munshiganj, Sylhet and Rajshahi with the victims aged as young as six...
Woman raped at rubber plantation hill in Sylhet; two arrested
A woman was raped in a rubber plantation hill in Sylhet, and the police have arrested two people in connection with the incident...
Ultimatum issued to free Sylhet roads from encroachment
Citizens of Sylhet on Wednesday gave a 24-hour ultimatum to the city corporation authorities to free the city streets from the illegal encroachment by hawkers...
Mob beat 3, torch motorcycle
A mob allegedly beat three people and torched a motorcycle suspecting them to be robbers at Golabganj upazila in Sylhet early Wednesday...
Breaking hilsa price trap
HILSA has for long been a cultural and culinary staple. Yet, despite a notable increase in production, its price remains beyond the reach of many consumers. A recent study led by professor Md Mostafa Shamsuzzaman and his research team in the Sylhet Agricultural University sheds light on the underlying factors behind this persistent price increase. Their findings...
Rains, thundershowers likely in parts of Ctg, Sylhet
Bangladesh Meteorological Department predicted rainfall or thunder showers in parts of Chattogram and Sylhet divisions in 24 hours from 9:00am on Sunday...
Medical interns’ strike called off partially
Several public medical colleges, including in Sylhet and Chattogram, have partially called off the week-long strike involving work abstention by interns and boycott of academic activities by students...
Sylhet Juba Dal leader expelled for extortion
A leader of Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal, youth front of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was expelled from the organisation midnight past Friday on charge of demanding extortion from hawkers in Sylhet city...
Mercantile Bank’s Town Hall Meeting held at Sylhet
Mercantile Bank PLC held Town Hall Meeting at Grand Sylhet Hotel and Resort on Friday...
2 held with 50,000 yaba tablets in Sylhet
Detectives of the narcotics control department arrested two brothers, including a former union parishad member, along with 50,000 yaba tablets at Jakiganj upazila in Sylhet Thursday morning...
No let-up in mob violence
Mob violence goes unabated in the country with no sign of let-up in immediate future as in latest incidents at least one man was lynched to death and three others beaten up on suspicion of being muggers in Dhaka, Gazipur and Sylhet on Tuesday night...
People suffer as Hefazat blocks Cumilla-Sylhet highway
People suffered as the leaders and activists of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh blocked the Cumilla-Sylhet highway in Brahmanbaria for about three hours on Wednesday...
Shibir cuts tendon of MC College student
Activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student wing of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, allegedly cut off tendons of a leg of an activist of Students Against Discrimination of Murari Chand College in Sylhet on Wednesday night over a Facebook post...
One killed, two injured in Sylhet road accident
A woman was killed, and two others were injured in a collision between a bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Umanpur on the Sylhet-Tamabil highway....
Car driver injured as train hits vehicle in Sylhet
A car driver was injured when an intercity train hit his vehicle at a railway level crossing in Fenchuganj upazila of Sylhet Tuesday noon...
BISWANATHPUR POLICE STATION ATTACK: 2,500 unnamed people sued
Police filed a case against 2,500 unidentified people on charges of arson, vandalism, looting of government weapons and ammunition and attacking policemen of Bishwanathpur police station in Sylhet on August 5 after the fall of the fascist amid the student-led mass uprising...
17.5kg gold seized at Sylhet airport
Intelligence officials seized 17.5 kilogrammes of gold from the luggage of two passengers of Biman Bangladesh Airlines at Sylhet Osmani International Airport on Thursday morning.
BEYOND FEAR: Sufism and shrines of Sylhet
‘I DON’T care about haram or halal. I’d rather extinguish the fire in hell and burn heaven so that people could start loving God for no other reason than love.’ This statement, as quoted by Shams Tabrizi in the book The Forty Rules of Love written by Elif Shafak, perhaps best encapsulates the esoteric vs the exoteric aspects of Islam. The path of inner...
GP launches green service centre at Sylhet
Mobile phone operator Grameenphone has launched ‘Green Grameenphone Centre’ in Sylhet’s Ambarkhana area, as first operator to serve their customers through an eco-friendly service centre...
Biman Bangladesh Airlines suspends Manchester flight
The authorities of Biman Bangladesh Airlines have taken a plan to temporarily suspend the Dhaka-Sylhet-Manchester flights in order to conduct Hajj flights of the pilgrims smooth and comfortable...
INCREASING INTERN ALLOWANCE: SAU vet students continue class boycott
The veterinary faculty students of Sylhet Agricultural University staged demonstrations for the second day on Wednesday boycotting academic activities to press home their five-point demand, including enhancement of an intern’s monthly allowance to Tk 20,000 from Tk 9,000...
INCREASING INTERN ALLOWANCE: SAU veterinary students boycott classes
Students of the Sylhet Agricultural University’s veterinary faculty on Tuesday staged demonstrations after boycotting academic activities for 5-point demands, including enhancement of an intern’s monthly allowance to Tk 20,000 from Tk 9,000...
Landslide kills youth during extracting stone
A youth was killed in a landslide while he was extracting stone digging earth at Companiganj upazila in Sylhet on Monday morning....
Zakir trumps Liton to give Sylhet first win
Zakir Hasan struck a 27 ball-58 as Sylhet Strikers registered its first win in the Bangladesh Premier League, beating Dhaka Capitals by three wickets at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on Friday.
Actress Nipun stopped from going to London
Actress Nipun Akter was on Friday quizzed at Osmani International Airport in Sylhet and prevented from travelling to London.
