Seven Bangladeshi nationals who had served sentences in India for illegal infiltration have returned home through the Tamabil land port in Sylhet. The Indian Border Security Force handed them over to Bangladesh authorities on Tuesday afternoon, June 9, at the Tamabil immigration checkpoint in the presence of BGB and police from both countries.
Police have recovered the hanging body of a schoolboy from a flat in the Subidbazar area of Sylhet city. A note written in English was also recovered from the room.
An environmental advocacy group has called for a special allocation of Tk 50,000 crore for Bangladesh’s haor region in the proposed national budget for fiscal year 2026–27, placing a 20-point set of demands aimed at addressing climate vulnerability, agricultural losses and long-term development challenges in the country's wetland basin.
Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP) has banned the sale, purchase, carrying, hoarding, supply and use of 'switch gear' knives in the city area.
A teenager drowned while visiting the Jaflong tourist spot in Sylhet's Gowainghat upazila on Eid vacation. He went missing in the Zero Point area of Jaflong around 4pm and was recovered dead around 6pm on Monday (June 1).
Two people were killed after a passenger bus crashed into the rear of a stationary bus on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway in Osmaninagar upazila of Sylhet early Sunday.