Tigers look to end unusual losing streak
Bangladesh will certainly be looking to get back on the winning track on home soil when they take on Zimbabwe in a two-match Test series that starts at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on April 20...
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BCL activist killed by rivals
An activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League, banned student organisation of the Awami League, was stabbed to death allegedly by his BCL rival group in Sylhet on Tuesday night...
Teenage girl found dead in Sylhet
A teenage girl allegedly committed suicide after being resisted from using mobile phone by her mother in Sylhet on Sunday...
3 arrested with smuggled goods
Three suspected smugglers along with smuggled goods from India and China were arrested in Sylhet on Friday night...
Vegetable vendor found dead in Sylhet
The hanging body of a vegetable vendor was recovered from a tree in a haor at Osmani Nagar upazila in Sylhet on Friday noon....
Seven held over procession by BCL in Sylhet
Seven people, suspected to be supporters of Awami League and its associate bodies, were arrested on charge of bringing out a procession in favour of the Bangladesh Chhatra League, a banned organisation, in Sylhet early Thursday...
15 hurt as BNP, Juba Dal clash in Sylhet
At least 15 people were injured early Wednesday as the supporters of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its youth front Juba Dal locked in a clash in Sylhet over establishing supremacy in the area...
2 teenagers die at tourist spots in Sylhet
Two teenage visitors died in tourist spots, Sada Pathar and Jaflong in Sylhet during Eid-ul-Fitr holidays...
Handcuffed AL leader snatched from police
A handcuffed Awami League leader was snatched away from the police after attacking a police van at Osmani Nagar in Sylhet on Tuesday...
Folk artiste Sushama Dash dies in Sylhet
Ekushey Padak-winning folk artiste Sushma Dash died at her home of Hawlader Para in Sylhet on Wednesday...
Indian nationals shot at two Bangladeshis
Indian Khasia people allegedly shot at least two Bangladeshis near the Bichhnakandi border at Gowainghat upazila in Sylhet on Wednesday night...
4 girls raped, 3 others survive rape attempts
At least six new incidents of rape and attempt to rape had come to light since Friday following filing of police cases in Bogura, Nilphamari, Natore, Munshiganj, Sylhet and Rajshahi with the victims aged as young as six...
Woman raped at rubber plantation hill in Sylhet; two arrested
A woman was raped in a rubber plantation hill in Sylhet, and the police have arrested two people in connection with the incident...
Ultimatum issued to free Sylhet roads from encroachment
Citizens of Sylhet on Wednesday gave a 24-hour ultimatum to the city corporation authorities to free the city streets from the illegal encroachment by hawkers...
Mob beat 3, torch motorcycle
A mob allegedly beat three people and torched a motorcycle suspecting them to be robbers at Golabganj upazila in Sylhet early Wednesday...
Breaking hilsa price trap
HILSA has for long been a cultural and culinary staple. Yet, despite a notable increase in production, its price remains beyond the reach of many consumers. A recent study led by professor Md Mostafa Shamsuzzaman and his research team in the Sylhet Agricultural University sheds light on the underlying factors behind this persistent price increase. Their findings...
Rains, thundershowers likely in parts of Ctg, Sylhet
Bangladesh Meteorological Department predicted rainfall or thunder showers in parts of Chattogram and Sylhet divisions in 24 hours from 9:00am on Sunday...
Medical interns鈥� strike called off partially
Several public medical colleges, including in Sylhet and Chattogram, have partially called off the week-long strike involving work abstention by interns and boycott of academic activities by students...
Sylhet Juba Dal leader expelled for extortion
A leader of Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal, youth front of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was expelled from the organisation midnight past Friday on charge of demanding extortion from hawkers in Sylhet city...
Mercantile Bank鈥檚 Town Hall Meeting held at Sylhet
Mercantile Bank PLC held Town Hall Meeting at Grand Sylhet Hotel and Resort on Friday...
2 held with 50,000 yaba tablets in Sylhet
Detectives of the narcotics control department arrested two brothers, including a former union parishad member, along with 50,000 yaba tablets at Jakiganj upazila in Sylhet Thursday morning...
No let-up in mob violence
Mob violence goes unabated in the country with no sign of let-up in immediate future as in latest incidents at least one man was lynched to death and three others beaten up on suspicion of being muggers in Dhaka, Gazipur and Sylhet on Tuesday night...
People suffer as Hefazat blocks Cumilla-Sylhet highway
People suffered as the leaders and activists of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh blocked the Cumilla-Sylhet highway in Brahmanbaria for about three hours on Wednesday...
Shibir cuts tendon of MC College student
Activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student wing of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, allegedly cut off tendons of a leg of an activist of Students Against Discrimination of Murari Chand College in Sylhet on Wednesday night over a Facebook post...
One killed, two injured in Sylhet road accident
A woman was killed, and two others were injured in a collision between a bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Umanpur on the Sylhet-Tamabil highway....
Car driver injured as train hits vehicle in Sylhet
A car driver was injured when an intercity train hit his vehicle at a railway level crossing in Fenchuganj upazila of Sylhet Tuesday noon...
BISWANATHPUR POLICE STATION ATTACK: 2,500 unnamed people sued
Police filed a case against 2,500 unidentified people on charges of arson, vandalism, looting of government weapons and ammunition and attacking policemen of Bishwanathpur police station in Sylhet on August 5 after the fall of the fascist amid the student-led mass uprising...
17.5kg gold seized at Sylhet airport
Intelligence officials seized 17.5 kilogrammes of gold from the luggage of two passengers of Biman Bangladesh Airlines at Sylhet聽 Osmani International Airport on Thursday morning.
BEYOND FEAR: Sufism and shrines of Sylhet
鈥業 DON鈥橳 care about haram or halal. I鈥檇 rather extinguish the fire in hell and burn heaven so that people could start loving God for no other reason than love.鈥� This statement, as quoted by Shams Tabrizi in the book The Forty Rules of Love written by Elif Shafak, perhaps best encapsulates the esoteric vs the exoteric aspects of Islam. The path of inner...