Huge cash recovered from car by students
A car loaded with Tk 88,50,000 and three people, including the driver, were detained by students, who were controlling traffic in Narsingdi in the absence of the police as in other places...
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DU, SUST VCs resign
The vice-chancellors of Dhaka University and the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology in Sylhet resigned on Saturday following students鈥� demand...
BMD warns of weeklong wet spell
The Bangladesh Meteorological Department on Thursday said that a weeklong wet spell is likely to set in over Bangladesh from today...
Flight operation at Sylhet Airport suspended for six hours
Flight operations at Sylhet Osmani International Airport were suspended for six hours on Monday.
139 people arrested in 11 cases filed over quota protests in Sylhet
Police arrested 139 people, including Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Jamaat activists in connection with the violence amid students鈥� protests demanding reformation in government job quota in Sylhet...
UK to provide 拢30,000 to flood-affected people in Bangladesh
The United Kingdom is providing 拢30,000 or Tk聽4.5 crores of vital humanitarian assistance to support flood-affected communities in Sylhet, where over three million people have been impacted and 260,000 are displaced...
Met office forecasts heavy rains in Rangpur, M鈥檚ingh, Sylhet divisions
Bangladesh Meteorological Department has forecast rain or thundershowers in all divisions of the country, including heavy showers in three divisions commencing 9:00am on Sunday...
34,128 kg smuggled sugar seized in Sylhet, 2 held
A detective team of Sylhet Metropolitan Police seized two trucks, loaded with 34,128 kilograms of sugar smuggled from India, in Moglabazar area early Saturday...
1.2 lakh kg smuggled sugar seized, 7 held
Detective Branch of the Sylhet Metropolitan Police on Thursday seized six trucks loaded with 1.20 lakh kilograms sugar smuggled from India worth around Tk 1.44 crore in the city鈥檚 Shah Paran area...
Flooding warrants adequate help for people in distress
FLOODING, especially in the north and north-east, is turning bad with a rapid increase in river heights, leaving thousands marooned, waiting to be rescued to flood shelters. In some places, people are waiting to be rescued even from flood shelters to places that are safe as the shelters rapidly went under water, as high as the height of fully grown humans...
Sinopec to explore gas in Sylhet at Tk 444cr
The government on Wednesday appointed the Sinopec International Petroleum Service Corporation of China to drill an exploratory well and a development of a well in Sylhet...
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....
30 people killed in 45 road accidents in Sylhet in June alone: Report
Thirty people were killed and 45 others injured in 27 road accidents in Sylhet division in the month of June alone, according to a report published by Sylhet divisional committee of Nirapad Sarak Chai...
Third wave of flooding affects over 7 lakh people in Sylhet
Over seven lakh people in 13 upazilas of Sylhet district are grappling with the third wave of flooding, even before the effects of the second wave have fully subsided....
Couple killed in Sylhet road accident
A couple was killed and two others were injured in a collision between a truck and a car in Dhopagul area in Sylhet on Monday evening...
SAU teacher Ibrahim receives PhD thesis award in Italy
Sylhet Agricultural University鈥檚 fisheries health management department associate professor Sarker Md Ibrahim Khalil awarded the best PhD thesis award at the 28th Italian National Fish Pathological Conference in Italy recently...
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...
Golabganj residents issue 7-day ultimatum for gas supply
Residents of Golabganj upazila in Sylhet issued a seven-day ultimatum on Sunday, demanding gas supply and threatening to seize the Golabganj Gas Plant on July 8 if their demands were not met.....
HSC, equivalent examinations begin across Bangladesh, except Sylhet
The Higher Secondary Certificate and its equivalent exams have begun across the country except in Sylhet division on Sunday morning...
Sylhet braces for 3rd bout of flood soon: BWDB
The north-eastern Sylhet division is going to grapple with yet another spell of flash flood within the next two days soon after partial receding of the second phase...
Diseases break out in Sylhet region amid flood
Nearly two million flood-stricken people remained stranded in Sylhet region till Thursday despite the water levels of major rivers dropped accelerating sufferings to the victims due to...
One killed, another injured in Sylhet road accident
A man died and another was injured in a collision between a bus and a car in Osmaninagar upazila of Sylhet on Thursday morning...
Rail links between Sylhet, rest of Bangladesh resumes after 8hrs
Rail communication between Sylhet and the rest of the country resumed after eight and a half hours following the derailment of two bogies of the intercity Paharika train at Katalpur in Fenchuganj...
Truck runs over constable, 3 held
A speeding truck ran over a police constable on Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Shaistaganj upazila in Habiganj leaving him dead in the early morning on Wednesday...
Sylhet passes wettest June in five decades
With five days still to go in the first monsoon month鈥擩une鈥攖he north-eastern district of Sylhet already recorded an amount of rainfall that was never seen in the month since Bangladesh鈥檚 independence in 1971...
Three teenage girls of Sylhet rehab centre attempt suicide
Three teenage girls tried to commit suicide by jumping from the third floor of Sheikh Rasel Children鈥檚 Training and Rehabilitation Centre in Sylhet on Tuesday night to get relief from the alleged torture by the officials....
Fresh areas flooded in Sylhet
The flood situation remained nearly unchanged in the north-eastern Sylhet region marooning over 25 lakh people, while around 35,000 families in five districts of...
Flood water starts receding in Sylhet
After being battered by heavy rains and hill torrents for the past few days, water levels in several rivers in Sylhet have started to recede, improving the flood situation in different areas...
Flood affects over 1,000聽edn instts
The ongoing floods in Sylhet division affected over 1,000 educational institutes across Sylhet, Sunamganj, and Moulvibazar districts.
2.5m people stranded in Sylhet, 55,000 rush to flood shelters
More than 25 lakh people in Sylhet division remained marooned still on Thursday as the flood situation worsened inundating new areas in four districts of the...