Dwoha Chowdhury

The man, whose death has sparked protests in Sunamganj, was brutally tortured in custody at Shantiganj Police Station, said two witnesses.

The beauty is spellbinding around the 20-kilometre road that connects Madhyanagar Sadar to bordering Mohish Khola bazar in Sunamganj.

Sust Teachers’ Association yesterday urged the government to take steps for the resignation of Vice-Chancellor Farid Uddin Ahmed and to meet all demands of the students, so that their hunger strike stops.

Hundreds of farmers in Sunamganj are in fear of losing their Boro paddy to floods as the authorities concerned are delaying the repair of levees.

When a column of Pakistan army vehicles entered Dewrachhara Tea Garden in Moulvibazar in the afternoon of May 3, 1971, most of the workers there were alarmed but had little strength left to do anything about it.

As the days go by, the hillocks that stand tall in Sylhet district are being replaced by towering concrete structures. Due to rampant, illegal hillock cutting in absence of adequate enforcement of the law, Sylhet’s surroundings are in grave danger. Green activists have flagged this activity as the most notable environmental threat facing the district for the last two decades.

Despite widespread criticism of cutting trees in the name of development, at least 200 trees were chopped down in the last couple of weeks at Sylhet city’s Shahjalal Upashahar area.

One year after the custodial killing of Rayhan Ahmed, the family still awaits justice, as the case’s trial just began on September 30.

It was a rainy night in July 2008. Residents of some bordering villages in Sunamganj’s Tahirpur upazila heard a sound of landslide coming from a hill across the border.

“I don’t believe that expressing an opinion can be considered a crime. I still believe in freedom of speech.”

One year after the rape incident at Sylhet’s Murari Chand College (MC College), trial of two cases filed over rape and mugging are yet to begin in court, due to several legal obligations and the ongoing pandemic.

One-year-old Ishan Das Shoumya was all smiles as he played on the bed, but his mother Sweety Rani Das could not fight back the tears as she spoke about the nightmare that was the last six months.

The by-election to Sylhet-3 constituency was marked by a very low turnout of voters yesterday.

On May 7, a fisherman in Sylhet caught a 180kg Baghair from the Kushiyara river and brought it to Lalbazar, a famous fish market in the city.

Medical ventilator, a crucial lifesaving equipment, is still scarce in rural and certain urban hospitals where coronavirus patients continue to suffer and die.

How many people actually died of Covid-19 in Sylhet division since the beginning of the pandemic?

Eighty-year-old Lal Chan Bibi of Moulvibazar’s Barlekha upazila was suffering from Covid-19 symptoms for the last couple of days.

“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”

Reticent painter and art teacher Arabinda Das Gupta breathed his last at Sylhet Shahid Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital this morning at 10:22 am today. He was 68 years old.

On Thursday night, there were 54 patients admitted to the Covid-19 unit of a privately-owned Sylhet Community Based Hospital in the city.