Trees fall victim to SCC development work
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.
27 October 2021, 18:00 PM
1-year of Rayhan’s Custodial Death: Family still awaits justice
One year after the custodial killing of Rayhan Ahmed, the family still awaits justice, as the case’s trial just began on September 30.
10 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Sand, Stone From Meghalaya: Carried by flash flood, damaging cropland
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.
8 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Expressing opinion not a crime
“I don’t believe that expressing an opinion can be considered a crime. I still believe in freedom of speech.”
30 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Rape at MC College: Trial of two cases yet to start
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.
25 September 2021, 18:00 PM
‘Is expressing opinion a worse crime than destroying homes?’
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.
18 September 2021, 18:00 PM
AL runner wins in a low-turnout by-election
The by-election to Sylhet-3 constituency was marked by a very low turnout of voters yesterday.
4 September 2021, 18:00 PM
9 fish species on verge of extinction
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.
28 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Local start-up shines thru gloom
Medical ventilator, a crucial lifesaving equipment, is still scarce in rural and certain urban hospitals where coronavirus patients continue to suffer and die.
16 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Data discrepancy leaves Sylhet residents puzzled
How many people actually died of Covid-19 in Sylhet division since the beginning of the pandemic?
6 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Covid situation dire in Sylhet
Eighty-year-old Lal Chan Bibi of Moulvibazar’s Barlekha upazila was suffering from Covid-19 symptoms for the last couple of days.
2 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Work together to disseminate knowledge
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”
25 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Renowned artist Arabinda Das Gupta no more
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.
18 July 2021, 05:54 AM
Another life lost to mismanagement?
On Thursday night, there were 54 patients admitted to the Covid-19 unit of a privately-owned Sylhet Community Based Hospital in the city.
17 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Private hospital in Sylhet runs out of oxygen: one dead, many suffer
Oxygen crisis at the privately-owned Sylhet Community Based Hospital led to the death of a Covid-19 patient early Friday.
17 July 2021, 14:55 PM
Healthy company culture begets employee motivation
In 2015, a Harvard Business Review article by Lindsay McGregor and Neel Doshi explained the connection between company culture and employee motivation. It cites that global business leaders believe that a strong organisational culture is critical to success.
15 July 2021, 18:00 PM
World Population Day: Sylhet wakes up to family planning
At 26, Bina Roy, a tea garden worker at Khejuri Tea Garden of Sreemangal upazila in Moulvibazar, is already a mother of four after getting married at 16.
10 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Surge in Covid Cases: Sylhet runs out of ICU beds
On June 20, Rafique Miah, an elderly resident of Sunamganj’s Jagannathpur upazila, tested positive for Covid-19. He was treated at a private hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) for three days till his condition improved, and then he returned home.
9 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Greens worried as new safari park planned
A proposal to build the country's third safari park in Lathitila forest of Moulvibazar has raised concerns among environmentalists as the construction of roads and structures will threaten the biodiversity of the forest area.
2 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Plight of the haor people
The struggles of the people living in the haor areas of the country’s north-eastern districts came to light during the early flash floods of 2017.
28 June 2021, 18:00 PM