Country, Districts
Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Bengali Hindu community, started across the country on Monday (October 11) with the Shashthi puja.The main puja of Goddess Durga started on this day and the puja mandapas will be open till Vijaya Dashami on next Friday. More than two and a half ...
There are numerous illegal stands of microbuses, private cars and CNG-powered auto-rickshaws across the city of Sylhet. Vehicles are being kept on both sides of many roads. As a result, people are suffering in hour-long traffic jams in these places every day. Besides, new stands are being set up bes...
Despite ban of easy-bikes (battery powered tri-wheeler) by Sylhet City Corporation, the whole city is swarmed by these vehicles. Even a huge easy-bike stand was set up beside the Kotwali Police Station in Sylhet city.People in the area are questioning the role of authorities as these menacing vehicl...
The main formalities of Durga Puja, the major religious festival of the Hindu community, will begin on October 11 this year. During this Puja religious Hindu men and women will worship goddess Durga amid a festivity. Already, most of the eye-catching Durga idols have flourished in an eye-catchi...
After a long wait of 15 years, ‘Jananetri Sheikh Hasina Shishu Park’, built at Alampur in South Surma of Sylhet district, was finally launched on an experimental basis by Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) on Saturday afternoon. At this stage, the concerned contractor will 'check'...
Gas cylinder business is going on in Sylhet without any safety standard. The use of LPG cylinders in the country has increased several times in the last five years due to the closure of new gas connections in residential buildings for several years. In this way, the competition among the marketing c...
Police recovered the bodies of two sisters from the rooftop of a building in Majumdari area in Sylhet city on Tuesday morning (September 20). The deceased were identified as Rani Begum, 33, and Fatema Begum, 27, daughters of Kalim Ullah of the area.Khan Mohammad Mainul Jakir, officer-in-charge ...
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As per the government’s technology-friendly initiatives, six e-gates are being installed at Osmani International Airport in Sylhet which will make the immigration process faster, said officials.E-gate activities have started in the country on June 30 this year. With the inauguration of e-gate ...
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Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) has announced a budget of over 839.20 crore taka. SCC Mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury announced this budget for the fiscal year 2021-22 with equal amount of income and expenditure on Thursday.The budget was announced at a convention hall at city's Baluchar area on Thur...
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The construction work of a 18-storey building at the premises of Sylhet M. A. G. Osmani Medical College Hospital has been stopped as a group of youths identifying them as BCL activists demanded Tk 50 lakh from the construction company. The company complained that the group of youth also took tree cu...
Dr Mrityunjay Kundu, Senior Professor of the Department of Aquatic Resources Management at Sylhet Agricultural University (SAU) took charge as the newly appointed Dean of the Faculty of Fisheries of the University.On Saturday Dr Mrityunjay Kundu took charge as the new dean in the conference room of ...
A madrasah girl was about to be married to her violator, who is a teacher of a qwami madrasah at Jaintapur upazila in Sylhet, although the rape allegation is not negotiable and marrying the victim with the accused is not a legal solution according the law. The marriage ceremony was about to be ...
A 60-year old man, who was seriously injured in a clash between two groups of villagers at Chhatarkhai village under Jaintiapur upazila in Sylhet, succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in Sylhet on Thursday evening (June 10).The deceased was identified as Rafiqul Haque, son of late Fatir Ali of th...
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At least five people, including four members of a family, were killed and two others were injured as a truck hit a CNG-run autorickshaw on Sylhet-Tamabil highway on Sunday. The accident took place on the highway in Ferighat area at Jaintiapur upazila in Sylhet at about 6:45am. The deceased were...
About three million hectares of land remains uncultivated across the country during the first half of the year, especially during the monsoon. As a result, there is no work in those areas at that certain time of the year. Farmers suffer losses as there is no agricultural yield and there is a sh...
Mahmud Us Samad Chowdhury, MP from Sylhet-3 constituency, was buried at his family graveyard in front of his residence ‘Nurpur Borobari’ at Fenchuganj upazila in Sylhet after Juma prayers on Friday.Before burial, the last Namaz-e-Janaza of the MP was held at his village. Awami League lea...
Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (BAPA) and Save the Sari River Movement (Sari Nodi Bacho Andolon) have demanded for exclusion of the Kapna river from the list of waterbodies and pleaded not to lease the river to save the environment and biodiversity of the Ratargul Swamp Forest. Leaders of the two ...
At least eight people were killed and 20 others were critically injured in a head-on collision between two passenger buses in Rashidpur area on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway of Dakshin Surma in Sylhet on Friday.Locals said, “ENA Paribahan and London Express collided head-on in the area at 8:00am, l...
Advisor of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) Dr Md Nur Uddin called upon everyone to protect the river environment in development process.He said this while speaking at a discussion titled ‘Language of River, Pain of River’ held at Jaintapur Press Club auditorium at Jaintapur u...
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