Six more held for entering Bangladesh illegally
Border Guard Bangladesh on Saturday evening detained six more people, including a woman, on charges of illegally entering the country from India through the border at Tahirpur upazila in Sunamganj...
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Constable held for alleged rape
A constable of the Dharmapasha police station in Sunamganj was arrested early Tuesday on charges of raping a Higher Secondary Certificate examinee...
Saving Tanguar Haor from destruction demanded
Residents of haor areas on Wednesday at a human chain in the capital Dhaka called on the interim government to save Tanguar Haor, a wetland ecosystem at Dharmapasha and Tahirpur upazilas of Sunamganj, from detraction...
Critically endangered 鈥榖anarui鈥� netted in Tanguar Haor
A pangolin, locally known as 鈥榖anarui鈥�, and also a critically endangered species of mammal animals, was caught in a fisherman鈥檚 net in Tanguar Haor at Tahirpur upazila in Sunamganj on Wednesday evening...
Flood situation in Sylhet may improve in 72hrs: FFWC
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...
Sunamganj Medical College students withdraw movement
Sunamganj Medical College students on Wednesday withdrew their protest programmes following assurances from the authorities that their two-point demand, including opening of the college hospital, would be met by December this year...
Sunamganj Medical College students to return to classes
The protesting students of Sunamganj Medical College on the eighth day of their movement for two-point demand, including opening of the college hospital, on Tuesday agreed to return to classes after the authorities assured them of meeting their demands.
Sunamganj Medical College students enforce shutdown
Protesting students of Sunamganj Medical College on Monday, the seventh day of their ongoing movement, imposed a complete shutdown on the campus pressing for their two-point demand, including immediate opening of the hospital on the college campus...
Sunamganj Medical College students block road demanding hospital
More than two hundred students of Sunamganj Medical College on Sunday blocked the Sylhet-Sunamganj highway to press home their demand for a college hospital.
Two children drown in pond
Two children died after drowning in a pond at Dharmapasha upazila in Sunamganj on Sunday noon...
Many people want interim govt to stay for 5 years: home adviser
Home affairs adviser retired Lieutenant General Jahangir Alam Chowdhury said on Thursday in Sunamganj that many people told him that they wanted the interim government to stay in power for five years...
Pedestrian killed in BNP-JCD clash over extortion in Sunamganj
A pedestrian was killed and several others were injured in a clash between two groups of Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Chhatra Dal over allegedly realising extortion from vehicles in Madhyanagar upazila of Sunamganj on Monday night...
20 injured as villagers clash in Sunamganj
At least 20 people were injured, including 15 with bullet hit, as two groups of villagers clashed over establishing dominance at Ranobhumi village under Derai in Sunamganj on Sunday.
Two people killed, three injured in Sunamganj road accident
Two people were killed and three others injured as a bus rammed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Sunamganj-Sylhet road in Sadar upazila of Sunamganj district on Saturday...
鈥楽hah Abdul Karim Lok Utsab 2025鈥� to begin February 7
The 2-day 鈥楽hah Abdul Karim Lok Utsab 2025鈥� is scheduled to be held on the bank of the Kalni River at Ujandhal village of Derai in Sunamganj on February 7.
JMBF condemns BSF killing of Bangladeshi youth
JusticeMakers Bangladesh in France issued a statement on Thursday condemning the killing of Bangladeshi youth Saidul Islam by Indian Border Security Force gunfire along the Bangladesh-India border at Chinakandi of Bishwambarpur upazila in Sunamganj...
Four people arrested for attacking Hindu community in Sunamganj
Members of law enforcement agencies on Saturday arrested four people in connection with the vandalism and attack on several homes and shops of the Hindu community and...
Ex-minister Mannan gets bail in another case
A Sunamganj court on Monday granted bail to former planning minister MA Mannan in another case filed for alleged vandalism and torching of an office of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party...
Street Theatre Festival begins in Sunamganj
The drama and film department of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy has organised a three-day Street Theatre Festival in Sunamganj...
Anti-discrimination students clash in Sunamganj, 8 injured
A programme of the Sunamganj district chapter of the Student Movement Against Discrimination was foiled on Thursday as supporters of two factions of the platform clashed, leaving at least eight of the both groups injured...
Ex- planning minister Mannan granted bail
A Sunamganj court on Wednesday granted bail to former planning minister MA Mannan in a case filed for alleged attack on a rally of the anti-quota movement...
Six of a family burnt asleep in Sunamganj
A couple and their four minor children were burnt to death as a house of an Ashrayan Project in village Shimer Khal under Dharmapasha upazila in Sunamganj...
Lightning kills 7 in Sylhet, Sunamganj
At least seven people were killed after being struck by lightning while they were catching fish in the haors of Sylhet and Sunamganj districts on Sunday.
Fresh areas submerged in Sunamganj
Heavy rainfall and water from the upstream have once again inundated fresh areas in Sunamganj, Bangladesh....
Over 1 lakh people marooned in Sunamganj鈥檚 third wave of flood
The third wave of floods this monsoon have left over one lakh people stranded in their homes in Sunamganj, officials and relief workers said on Friday...
US gives $350,000 in humanitarian aid for flood-hit people in Bangladesh
The US government, through the United States Agency for International Development, is providing $350,000 in humanitarian assistance to help communities in the Sylhet and Sunamganj districts recover from deadly monsoon flooding in June....
FFWC predicts flashflood in low-lying areas of Sylhet, Sunamganj
The water level of Surma, Kushiyara, Old-Surma, Sarigowain rivers in the North-eastern region may rise further and cause flashflood in the low-lying areas of Sylhet and Sunamganj districts, according to the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre...
Eid festivities dampened in Sunamganj due to flood
Heavy rainfall and swelling hill torrents have caused the Surma River to overflow, leading to widespread flooding on Eid-ul-Azha day in Sunamganj municipality.....
Singer Pagal Hasan, another killed in Sunamganj road accident
Two people including popular singer Pagal Hasan were killed and three others injured in a collision between a bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Chhatak upazila of Sunamganj early Thursday....