Defending champions Bangladesh were eliminated from the group stages of the Women’s Asia Cup following a washout against UAE in their last round-robin match in Sylhet on Tuesday.

Arefin Sowrob is a digital entrepreneur, who while working in the IT sector, initiated the Creative Digital Bangladesh, an IT company which provides multiple tech services from web design to digital marketing. Starting from scratch only a few years ago, today Sowrob’s company hires about 150 employees in his organisation. At present, when Sylhet and Kurigram are under the grip of severe floods, Arefin Sowrob has taken steps to stand by the flood victims with his team from Creative Digital Bangladesh.

Social media influencer, Firoz Hasan of Free Motion, has taken a personal initiative to stand by the flood victims of Sylhet and Sunamganj. As a content creator, Hasan met people in distress and felt that the plight of these people should be highlighted. At one point, he thought of making videos and uploading them on social media.

It was pitch-dark when I entered Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital on Saturday afternoon. The ground floor was submerged in knee-high floodwater. I climbed up the stairs to the first floor to find an elderly patient named Ana Miah lying on the floor.

Due to the flooding of water at Kumargaon 133/32 KV grid sub-station in Sylhet, power lines were cut off all over Sylhet from 12:30 pm today (June 18, 2022).

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More than 72 percent of Sylhet division is under water. Out of four districts in Sylhet division – 89 percent area of Sunamganj, 72 percent of Sylhet, 70 percent of Habiganj, and 50 percent of Moulvibazar was submerged.

Residents of Chhatak, Bishwambarpur, Tahirpur and Dowarabazar upazilas of Sunamganj and Companiganj, Gowainghat upazilas of Sylhet, including the city corporation areas, are badly affected due to the ongoing heavy rain and flood.

Water level in the Surma and Kushiyara rivers receding at four points provided some relief to people in flood affected areas of Sylhet and Sunamganj but they are afraid of more rain and long-term waterlogging.

Rail communications of Chattogram with Dhaka and Sylhet was restored after around 10 hours of suspension following a train derailment at Rajapur station in Cumilla’s Burichang upazila early today.

Volunteers appointed by the Gowainghat administration assaulted a group of tourists at Jaflong, a popular tourist destination in Sylhet.

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Police have cordoned off Chowhatta point area in Sylhet city after finding a bomb-like object on a motorcycle parked near the road.

Five people, including four members of a family, were killed and another was critically injured as a bus crashed into a private car on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Sylhet’s Osmaninagar upazila early today.

A Bangladeshi national has been shot dead by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Jaflong border in Gowainghat upazila of Sylhet.

Locals -- including people from low-income groups -- snatched VGF relief rice from a truck in Zakiganj upazila of Sylhet, citing irregularities in distribution.

Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) forecasts flash flood in Haor regions of Sunamganj and Sylhet as India’s Meteorological Department predicted excessive rainfall in the north-eastern part of Bangladesh and in the bordering areas of India from April 17 to 20.

Intern doctors of Jalalabad Ragib-Rabeya Medical College Hospital in Sylhet are on strike in demand of personal protective equipment (PPE).

A worker is killed in a landslide while extracting stone illegally at a quarry in Sylhet's Companiganj upazila, police say.