Focus on Sylhet

Sylhet Bureau Police recovered a mobile phone and a knife believed to have been used to kill Bulbul Ahmed, a student at the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST). On Wednesday morning (July 27), police raided the home of Kamrul Islam, who was arrested in connection with Bulbul’s death. Sylhet (South) Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner Azbahar Ali Sheikh confirmed ...

Sylhet Bureau Naik Shofi Ahmed of Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP) Media and Community Service has been awarded the Precident Police Padak (PPM) for humanitarian policing in the service of humanity. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal handed over the medal to Naik Safi on behalf of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who participated virtually in the Police Week to be held at ...

Sylhet Bureau Sales and Distribution Division of Sylhet Power Development Board (PDB) on Sunday published a new schedule of load shedding which shows some areas in Sylhet city won’t have electricity for 13 hours a day. Electricity generation falls in the country due to soaring prices of fuel in the world market. To save electricity, the government enforced area-wise load ...

Sylhet Bureau A fire broke out in a moving CNG autorickshaw in Sylhet city. On receiving the information, the fire service came and brought the fire under control. The accident took place on Monday (July 25) in the Madina Market area of the city. Eyewitnesses said that the passenger auto-rickshaw (Sylhet Th 12-0043) caught fire on the way from Tukerbazar ...

Sylhet Bureau A shop employee was strangled to death while stealing a shop at Fenchuganj in Sylhet. The employee named Subal Biswas (38) worked in the shop of a person named Nishi Babu in Mokambazar of Ghilachhra upazila. According to local sources, the murder took place in the shop around 12:30 on Wednesday night. After receiving the news, Fenchuganj police ...

Sylhet Bureau Teaching activities have not started in 35 schools of Sylhet yet after the severe floods. Out of this, 23 schools are submerged in flood water. The officials said.22 schools are being used as flood shelters. Besides, 607 educational institutions of secondary level of Sylhet have opened since Wednesday. Although no school has been closed, the attendance rate is ...

Sylhet Bureau Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has announced that 52 upazilas of the country, including all the upazilas of Sylhet district, will be free from landlessness and homeless. He said, to make a place so that every person can live. It was first done by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. He said this while inaugurating the program ...

Sylhet Bureau In Sylhet like all over the country to save electricity, the district administration has taken a hard line to keep shops, markets and businesses closed after 8 pm. nOn Tuesday (July 19) night in Sylhet, Deputy Commissioner Md. Mujibur Rahman. Soon after 8 pm, the raiding party alerted the businessmen to follow the instructions to close various shops ...

Sylhet Bureau Bangladesh-born British businessman Enam Ali passed away in the United Kingdom on Sunday. The founder of the British Curry Awards and Spice Business magazine, Enam, breathed his last at a hospital, said a press release issued by the Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Meanwhile, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen expressed deep shock and sorrow at the demise of ...

Sylhet Bureau Freedom Fighter Subedar Major (retd) Abdul Hafiz was laid to eternal rest with state honour at his family graveyard in Dakshin Surma upazila of the district on Friday. He died of old age complications at around 9:30 pm on Thursday. He was 96. He was given guard of honour at Baldi Central Jame Masjid premises ground around 12 ...