The United Kingdom is providing 拢30,000 or Tk聽4.5 crores of vital humanitarian assistance to support flood-affected communities in Sylhet, where over three million people have been impacted and 260,000 are displaced...
Bangladesh Meteorological Department has forecast rain or thundershowers in all divisions of the country, including heavy showers in three divisions commencing 9:00am on Sunday...
A detective team of Sylhet Metropolitan Police seized two trucks, loaded with 34,128 kilograms of sugar smuggled from India, in Moglabazar area early Saturday...
Detective Branch of the Sylhet Metropolitan Police on Thursday seized six trucks loaded with 1.20 lakh kilograms sugar smuggled from India worth around Tk 1.44 crore in the city鈥檚 Shah Paran area...
FLOODING, especially in the north and north-east, is turning bad with a rapid increase in river heights, leaving thousands marooned, waiting to be rescued to flood shelters. In some places, people are waiting to be rescued even from flood shelters to places that are safe as the shelters rapidly went under water, as high as the height of fully grown humans...
The government on Wednesday appointed the Sinopec International Petroleum Service Corporation of China to drill an exploratory well and a development of a well in Sylhet...
The US government, through the United States Agency for International Development, is providing $350,000 in humanitarian assistance to help communities in the Sylhet and Sunamganj districts recover from deadly monsoon flooding in June....
Thirty people were killed and 45 others injured in 27 road accidents in Sylhet division in the month of June alone, according to a report published by Sylhet divisional committee of Nirapad Sarak Chai...
Over seven lakh people in 13 upazilas of Sylhet district are grappling with the third wave of flooding, even before the effects of the second wave have fully subsided....
A couple was killed and two others were injured in a collision between a truck and a car in Dhopagul area in Sylhet on Monday evening...
Sylhet Agricultural University鈥檚 fisheries health management department associate professor Sarker Md Ibrahim Khalil awarded the best PhD thesis award at the 28th Italian National Fish Pathological Conference in Italy recently...
The water level of Surma, Kushiyara, Old-Surma, Sarigowain rivers in the North-eastern region may rise further and cause flashflood in the low-lying areas of Sylhet and Sunamganj districts, according to the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre...
Residents of Golabganj upazila in Sylhet issued a seven-day ultimatum on Sunday, demanding gas supply and threatening to seize the Golabganj Gas Plant on July 8 if their demands were not met.....
The Higher Secondary Certificate and its equivalent exams have begun across the country except in Sylhet division on Sunday morning...
The north-eastern Sylhet division is going to grapple with yet another spell of flash flood within the next two days soon after partial receding of the second phase...
Nearly two million flood-stricken people remained stranded in Sylhet region till Thursday despite the water levels of major rivers dropped accelerating sufferings to the victims due to...
A man died and another was injured in a collision between a bus and a car in Osmaninagar upazila of Sylhet on Thursday morning...
Rail communication between Sylhet and the rest of the country resumed after eight and a half hours following the derailment of two bogies of the intercity Paharika train at Katalpur in Fenchuganj...
A speeding truck ran over a police constable on Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Shaistaganj upazila in Habiganj leaving him dead in the early morning on Wednesday...
With five days still to go in the first monsoon month鈥擩une鈥攖he north-eastern district of Sylhet already recorded an amount of rainfall that was never seen in the month since Bangladesh鈥檚 independence in 1971...
Three teenage girls tried to commit suicide by jumping from the third floor of Sheikh Rasel Children鈥檚 Training and Rehabilitation Centre in Sylhet on Tuesday night to get relief from the alleged torture by the officials....
The flood situation remained nearly unchanged in the north-eastern Sylhet region marooning over 25 lakh people, while around 35,000 families in five districts of...
After being battered by heavy rains and hill torrents for the past few days, water levels in several rivers in Sylhet have started to recede, improving the flood situation in different areas...
The ongoing floods in Sylhet division affected over 1,000 educational institutes across Sylhet, Sunamganj, and Moulvibazar districts.
More than 25 lakh people in Sylhet division remained marooned still on Thursday as the flood situation worsened inundating new areas in four districts of the...
The education ministry on Thursday postponed this year鈥檚 Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent聽 examinations in the Sylhet division till...
Nearly one-and-half million people were marooned in three days as fresh flood struck Sylhet and surrounding districts due to a heavy downpour and continuous onrush of...
Continuous heavy rainfall over the past three days has worsened the flood situation in Sylhet for the second time in just 20 days. Nearly seven lakh people in the Sylhet metropolitan area and throughout the district are now stranded...
Sylhet faces another severe flood crisis as relentless rainfall and upstream surges have caused rivers to rise rapidly, submerging large areas. Over the past two days, six points across three rivers in Sylhet have exceeded danger levels, affecting communities in Companiganj and Gowainghat upazilas...
Heavy rainfall is expected in Rangpur, Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions during 72 hours commencing 6:00am on Tuesday....