The Rapid Action Battalion held a youth and seized 99 pieces of Yaba tablets and 17 bottles of Phensedyl in two drives in Sylhet Wednesday late night and early Thursday. The arrested was identified as Ali Ahmad, 32, of Pirpur under Jalalabad police station of Sylhet Metropolitan Police, sources in the RAB said.
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Diploma engineers hold demo in Sylhet
Diploma engineers on Wednesday formed a human chain in Sylhet to push for their demand for removal of disparity between their salaries, promotions and other facilities and those of graduate engineers. Diploma engineers working with different government
19 Jamaat-Shibir activists jailed in Sylhet
A Sylhet court on Monday sent 19 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e Islami and its student organisation Islami Chhatra Shibir to jail after rejecting a bail prayer in two cases. The cases were filed in connection with the attack at the Palli Bidyut office and clash with police at Bishwanath upazila in the district on ... Read more
Call to re-schedule SCC polls
A local leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Saturday requested the Election Commission to cancel the city corporation election scheduled for June 15, and re-schedule the polls after a fresh delimitation of the Sylhet city corporation area. He also urged the authorities concerned to appoint an
Nagarik Committee formed to support Kamran
A section of citizens in Sylhet have formed a 501-member Nagarik Committee and declared the outgoing Sylhet city mayor, Badar Uddin Ahmad Kamran, s their candidate for mayoral race in the upcoming elections to the city corporation scheduled for June 15. The announcement came at a meeting at a community centre
Ministry set to relax taxicab guidelines
The communications ministry is scheduled to make decision today over amending the Taxicab Service Guidelines of 2010 to remove the bottlenecks in pressing new cabs on the streets of Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet. Earlier on April 13, the ministry had decided to amend only one
Immediate steps demanded to spot risky buildings in Sylhet
Discussants at a programme in Sylhet called for taking immediate steps to identify risky buildings in the city to demolish or rectify them without any farther delay to avoid casualties in incidents of collapse. They also stressed the need to form a taskforce
Locals block highway in Sylhet for power supply
Local people blocked the Sylhet-Tamabil Highway for more than four hours in the Sylhet city Thursday night in demand of resumption of power supply. The people said power supply to the Shah Paran Gate, Khadimpara, Shantibag, Nipaban, Bahubal, Kallagram and Majortila of the city was suspended
Illegal parking blocks Sylhet city roads
Unauthorised parking lots set up occupying roads have mushroomed in the Sylhet city, aggravating city traffic congestion. The city dwellers have alleged that more than 50 such parking lots for cars, microbuses, CNG-run auto-rickshaws, rickshaws, battery-run three-wheelers and other
4 water towers lying unused for over a decade in Sylhet
The overhead water tanks installed in Sylhet city, to uplift drinking water for ensuring smooth supply to the city dwellers, have been lying unused for more than 13 years since their construction. The Sylhet City Corporation completed construction of three new high-rise water tanks at Subidbazar, Shahi Eidgah and Baluchar and refurbishment of an old ... Read more
Fake cop held in Sylhet
The police detained a college student in Sylhet Wednesday night on charge of impersonating a sub-inspector of police. The arrested was Ruhul Hossain, 25, an under graduate student of Tajpur Degree College at Osmani Nagar in the city.
2 youths killed as pillar collapses on them in Sylhet
Two youths were killed as a pillar of an under-construction building collapsed on them in the Sylhet city Tuesday evening. The deceased were identified as Kamal Ahmed, 26, son of the late Abdul Jalil of village Telikona under Bishwanath upazila in Sylhet, and Akash, 22, son of
Water crisis dogs Sylhet city life
Sylhet city dwellers are in extreme woes as water crisis is going from bad to worse here with the onset of summer. Scarcity of pure drinking water amid extreme heat is making life of the townspeople unbearable and the situation is getting worse gradually.
Chain-shop employee mugged in Sylhet
Miscreants snatched Tk 13 lakh from an official of Swapna, a chain-shop, after stabbing him in the Sylhet city on Monday. The victim was identified as Muminur Rahman, junior finance executive of the city’s Shahjalal Upa-Shahar branch of Swapna, sources in the institution said.
Private univ registrar found dead in Sylhet
Police recovered the body of a private university registrar from his rented house in Sylhet city Friday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Abdullah, 61, registrar of North South University at Taltola in the city.
E-commerce fair begins in Sylhet
A three-day e-commerce fair began in Sylhet on Thursday. The finance minister, Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, inaugurated the first ever e-commerce fair in Sylhet through video conference from his office in Dhaka in the morning. The district administration and Computer Jagath, a monthly
House rent hike adds to Sylhet people’s plight
Uncontrolled house rent hike is adding to the sufferings of the Sylhet city dwellers in the absence of any specific rule regarding house rent. According to data available with the Sylhet City Corporation, there are around 52,000 houses that include multi-storey buildings and apartments in the city, a home of some eight
Computer expo begins in Sylhet today
A five-day computer expo is going to begin in Sylhet today to popularise the use of computer technology among the masses. The local unit of Bangladesh Computer Samiti has arranged the fair styled ‘BCB Digital Expo Sylhet 2013’ at Mohammad Ali Gymnasium Building at Rikabibazar in the
Fatal crash takes 13 lives
Bus from wrong side rams microbus in Sylhet, 12 of the dead were from same family At least 13 people, twelve of them from the same family, were killed and 30 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a microbus at South Surma of Sylhet yesterday morning. The accident occurred around 6:30 ... Read more
Downpour disrupts life in Ctg, Sylhet
Heavy rainfall in different parts of the country strained people’s life, with people of Chittagong and Sylhet facing severe water stagnation on Thursday. The Met Office in Sylhet recorded 233.2mm of rainfall in 24 hours till Tuesday evening, the highest in the region in 42 years. The downpour