The plunder that never stopped
1 August 2026
Illegal stone and sand extraction continues across Sylhet despite bans, court orders and crackdowns
1 August 2026
Harold Rasheed’s first solo exhibition opens on his 70th birthday
30 June 2026
Titled “Shottore Harold” (Harold at 70), the programme was inaugurated on June 29 at the Shah Alam Gallery of Fine Arts in the Arabinda Dasgupta Building in Sylhet's TB Gate area. The event has been organised by Harold Rasheed's 70th Birthday Celebration Council.
30 June 2026
Haor farmers sink into debt, misery
8 May 2026
Untimely rains, floods, and upstream water inflow have left thousands of Boro farmers in the haor belt reeling from crop losses and plunging paddy prices.
8 May 2026
Bottled soybean oil becomes scarce
29 April 2026
Imports halve year-on-year, retailers receive under 40% supply, consumers pay up to Tk 15 above govt rate per litre
29 April 2026
Boro paddy prices fall amid ample supply
24 April 2026
Boro paddy accounts for nearly 55 percent of Bangladesh’s yearly rice production
24 April 2026
Deaths by lightning: An unsettling reality
22 April 2026
As farmers across the country worked in the fields on Saturday to bring in the season’s largest rice harvest, 10 of them were killed by lightning in seven districts.
22 April 2026
Farmers in distress as diesel price rise drives up costs
21 April 2026
The recent diesel price hike has made service providers increase charges for harvesting the largest rice crop, Boro, irrigating farmlands, and threshing the cash crop maize-- and farmers are struggling to cope.
21 April 2026
Farmers in distress as diesel price hike drives up costs
20 April 2026
The recent diesel price hike has made service providers increase charges for harvesting the largest rice crop, Boro, as well as for irrigating farmlands, and threshing maize -- leaving farmers struggling to cope.
20 April 2026
Councillor candidate show-caused
A show-cause notice has been served on Aftab Hossain Khan, a leader of Swechasebak League and a councillor candidate for ward-7 in the Sylhet City polls, for allegedly organising a showdown with arms outside the home of a rival candidate with a group of 20 to 25 men.
12 June 2023
SCC election: Violation of polls code rampant
Violating the electoral code of conduct, most of the mayoral and councillor candidates in Sylhet City Corporation elections have been seen putting up laminated posters and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) banners around the city roads.
5 June 2023
Race for Councillor: BNP struggling to rein in grassroots
Ignoring the BNP’s decision of boycotting the five city polls, some 25 grassroots party leaders, including six incumbent councillors, have filed nomination forms to run for councillor in the June 21 Sylhet city polls.
25 May 2023
Now party unity, voter turnout key challenges for AL
As the scheduled nomination collection and submission day for the upcoming Sylhet City Polls concluded yesterday, it seems that fate is on the side of the Awami League-nominated mayoral candidate.
23 May 2023
Polls code violations rampant in Sylhet
The Sylhet City Corporation election is scheduled for June 21, and despite warnings from the Election Commission, mayoral candidates have been continuously violating electoral rules by running campaigns in the city ahead of schedule.
15 May 2023
AL in Sylhet City Polls: Rift feared because of ‘an outsider’
The Awami League’s decision to nominate Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury, who is not even a part of any party units in Sylhet, may create a rift in the grassroots ahead of the upcoming mayoral polls.
18 April 2023
She finally gets to mourn her father
Shahrin Rahman had been longing for a place to mourn her father Lt Col Abul Fazal Ziaur Rahman, who was taken away by the Pakistani occupation army in 1971 when she was just five years old.
18 March 2023
Battle to get AL nomination heats up
As the Sylhet City Corporation election is approaching, tensions are high among those who are vying for mayoral nomination from Awami League.
10 March 2023
UCEP-StanChart training countering Covid job losses
s soon as the coronavirus pandemic hit Bangladesh in early 2020, thousands of people, mostly in the informal sector, lost their jobs.
2 February 2023
SUST Movement: A year of unkept promises
A year has gone by since the students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) suspended their movement for the removal of the vice chancellor and other demands.
16 January 2023
First national bamboo park disappears in plain sight
In 2012, the forest department took an initiative to protect threatened varieties of bamboo by creating the country’s first national bamboo park in Sylhet.
13 December 2022
Surma dredging plan may be futile
This year was a disastrous blow for Sylhet’s people, due to a devastating flood that continued for around two months from May 12.
26 November 2022
Sylhet city virtually stops
People in general suffered on the roads in Sylhet due to the transport strike allegedly centring yesterday’s BNP rally.
19 November 2022
‘Struggle for right to vote starts now’
The BNP’s only aim is to end the regime, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told yesterday’s rally in Sylhet city.
19 November 2022
BNP divisional rally: Strikes on yet Sylhet all set
Though the transport strike almost cut off Sylhet from the rest of the country, BNP activists continued to arrive in the city yesterday to attend today’s rally.
18 November 2022
BNP prepares for a grand Sylhet rally
BNP leaders and activists have been campaigning hard to ensure over “four lakh people” join the party’s upcoming rally in Sylhet city.
14 November 2022
Jamaat chief’s son linked to militant outfit
Rafat Chowdhury, son of Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman, is the Sylhet regional coordinator of Al-Qaeda-inspired militant outfit Ansar Al Islam and has been inspiring youths to leave their homes for so-called jihad, claimed police yesterday.
9 November 2022
Demand is there, production is not
While visiting Sylhet, one particular item in the kitchen markets always catch the attention of tourists -- a round-shaped lemon-like fruit.
5 November 2022
Historic Keane Bridge awaits restoration
More than seven centuries ago, Sylhet town flourished in the hilly terrain on the Surma river’s northern bank.
30 October 2022
Critically endangered 150kg Baghair being sold openly in Sylhet
A 150-kg Gangetic Goonch, commonly known as Baghair fish, is on display for sale at the traditional Lalbazar fish market in Sylhet city today (October 25, 2022).
25 October 2022