Brac Bank has launched 39 real-time cash deposit machines (RCDMs) in Dhaka, Gazipur, Chattogram, Sylhet, Rajshahi, Khulna, Rangpur, Bogura, Jashore and Pabna in the first phase.
The machine allows customers to deposit cash any time and any day of a week to their Brac Bank accounts and pay credit card bills within minutes, a press
Sylhet
Sylhet fans show their passion again
Football fans in Sylhet demonstrated their passion for the game once again when they gathered at the Sylhet District Stadium en masse to support Bangladesh in SAFF Under-16 final against India on Tuesday. All 20,000 tickets were sold for the game and the local football association had to issue 3,000 extra tickets to meet the huge demand. Sylhet was chosen as the venue for
U-16 boys a win away from glory
Bangladesh Under-16 football team is one win away from their maiden international title as they face holders India in the third SAFF Under-16 Football Championship final at Sylhet today.
The match, which will be telecast live on Bangladesh Television, will start at 5:00pm. The Bangladesh Football Federation has apologised for
Rajon Murder: Police press charges against 13 people
Police submitted the charge sheet for the murder of Samiul Alam Rajon to the court, accusing 13 people, including the prime suspect Kamrul Islam who left the country for Saudi Arabia.
The investigation officer in the case, Suranjit Talukder, also Sylhet Metropolitan Police detective branch inspector, submitted the charge sheet to
Rajon Killing: Protests flare at places
The police on Tuesday formed a committee to probe into alleged negligence of Jalalabad police station officials when Samiul Alam Rajon, 12, was beaten to death in Sylhet city on July 8 as protests against the murder continued across the country.
Sylhet Metropolitan Police on Tuesday withdrew
City polls to augur well for the nat’l election?
Last-minute mass-contact by heavy weight leaders from both the ruling Awami League and the opposition BNP, marked the end of the campaign for the mayoral polls in the four city corporations –Sylhet, Rajshahi, Khulna and Barisal- scheduled for June 15. Though officially political parties can not contest the city corporation election, it has turned into an electoral
Crack develops in private univ building
The authorities of a private university in Sylhet declared the institution closed for one month from Thursday after a crack developed in the university housed
at a six-story commercial building in the city.
Students of Leading University said a big crack appeared
Kamran pledges to complete dev works if elected
The Nagarik Committee candidate for the mayoral post in the Sylhet City Corporation polls, Badar Uddin Ahmad Kamran, on Tuesday promised to turn Sylhet into a city of peace,
communal harmony and tourism if he is elected.
He also pledged to complete the development works
Stolen vehicles seized in Sylhet
5 youths arrested
The Sylhet Metropolitan Police in separate drives conducted Wednesday late night seized two stolen motorcycles and one auto-rickshaw and picked up five youths on charge of lifting the vehicles.
The arrested were identified as Shamim Ahmed, 32, Zahir Miah, 29, Saddam Hossain, 21, Rifat Islam, 19, and Mamunur Rasheed, 23.
Sylhet printing houses pass busy days as SCC polls near
Printing shops in the Sylhet city are up to their ears in work, bringing out posters, leaflets and others polls related materials as the city corporation elections are drawing closer.
Market sources said the owners and employees of the publishing houses in the city are now working round the clock for meeting the demand of their clients
Fake food factory sealed off in Sylhet
Sylhet Metropolitan Police on Monday morning unearthed a factory producing fake food, drink and vitamin products from a house on the city outskirts.
The detective branch of police also arrested the managing director and an employee of the factory.
During a two-hour drive from 7:00am to 9:00am,
Arrest of Sylhet businessman’s killer demanded
Sylhet Bouddha Samiti, an organisation of the Buddhist community, formed a human chain at Sylhet on Saturday, demanding arrest of the killers of Ringku Barua,
a businessman of Surma Market of the city.
The Chittagong Samiti Sylhet, local unit of
Sylhet city plunges in darkness as storm snaps power supply
Normal life in the Sylhet city was disrupted severely as the entire city and its outskirts remained without power for around 20 hours since Wednesday 8:30pm
after a storm snapped the power supply system.
Residents of different city areas alleged that they had
Clinic vandalised over death of newborn in Sylhet
Local people vandalised a private clinic in Sylhet city on Friday night following the death of an infant allegedly due to negligence in providing treatment.
The clinic authorities said that the two-month-old baby, Meem, daughter of Abdul Muhith, a resident of Barhal village of Fenchuganj upazila, was admitted
Trader shot at, Tk 4 lakh looted
Armed miscreants looted Tk 4 lakh from a businessman after
shooting at him in Sylhet city on Saturday.
The victim was Nurul Islam, 38, owner of a mobile phone recharging shop at Darbazar of Companiganj upazila in the district.
Businessman stabbed to death in Sylhet
A businessman was stabbed to death by unidentified
miscreants in the Sylhet city Thursday night.
The deceased was identified as Ringku Barua, 43, owner of a printing and designing shop at Surma Market near Keane Bridge in the city and son of Sukumar Barua
MC College students demand punishment of fellow’s killers
Sylhet MC College students formed a human chain in the city on Friday, demanding immediate arrest and exemplary punishment of the killers of
Ahmed Imtiaz Pavez, a third year economics honours student.
More than two hundred students participated in the
Tea garden workers demand pay hike
Workers of seven teagardens in the Sylhet city and its outskirts on Thursday observed a strike to push for a charter of demands that include forming a separate
wage board for them and fixing Tk 300 as daily salary.
About 7,000 workers of Malni Chhara, Hilua Chhara,
MC College student stabbed to death in city
A college student was stabbed to death by unidentified
miscreants in the Sylhet city Wednesday afternoon.
The deceased was identified as Ahmed Imtiaz Parvez, 23, a third year economics student of Sylhet MC College and son of Mazamil Ali of village Chanpur
Sylhet journalists demand arrest of attackers on fellow
Media people in Sylhet on Tuesday gave a 24-hour ultimatum to the administration for the arrest of the culprits, who hacked a reporter with sharp weapons in the city Saturday night.
They blamed the failure of law-enforcing agencies to bring to book the attackers and killers of journalists across the country and said a tougher movement