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A train service that connects Chandpur and Sylhet has been a long-standing need for people living in the south and south-western regions of the country. A large number of residents from the region journey through Chandpur in order to see the shrines to holy gods Hazrat Shah Jalal and Shar Paran each day. Students also attend medical colleges and universities in Sylhet.A majority of tourists also travel to the district's north-eastern region to take in the natural beauty of the area. Day in and day out , they are afflicted by the fact that road travel is dangerous and takes a long time. According to Railway officials in the year 2000, a Laksam-bound commuter train coming from Chandpur was equipped with several coaches to it to accommodate passengers from Sylhet. At Laksham junction the coaches would join Jalalabad Express trains. Passengers can travel to Sylhet with relative ease and with a low cost without any trouble. It was stopped on September 20 in 2000 following...

The government plans to overhaul the education system. This will include eliminating public exams prior to class 10, and ensuring that students do not have to take any exams up until class 3. The new curriculum will place less emphasis on memorizing and more emphasis on activity- and experiment-based learning. Yesterday, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina approved the outline for the new curriculum. It will be implemented in phases starting January 2023 and fully implemented by 2025. From class 11, the government will also introduce streams, including business studies, science and humanities. Students had to choose from the nine streams within the existing curriculum. Dipu Moni, Education Minister, stated that the government is committed to reforming the existing education system after receiving approval from the PM. We don't want students to be under the stress of education. She stated that she wanted to provide students education with fanfare and replace the memorisati...

Nasrul Hamid, the State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources, officially announced Zakiganj as Zakiganj's 28th natural gas field with 68 billion cubic feet of reserves. The discovery was made by the state-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company, (Bapex), in June. However, it withheld any formal announcement because it was evaluating the possibility of gas recovery from the well at Ananadapur village, Zakiganj upazila in Sylhet. An official announcement about the discovery of new gas was made at a webinar organized by Energy and Mineral Resources Division. This webinar was held to commemorate August 9, National Energy Security Day, which marks the historic decision of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Shiikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975 to take control of 5 gas fields in Sylhet from multinational Shell Oil Company. According to UNB, the state minister stated that there is a potential reserve of 68 Billion cubic feet of gas in the new gas field. This gas fi...

Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday asserted that the law enforcement bureaus have been arresting BNP leaders and activists throughout the nation through obstruct raids. Our leaders and activists are being forced to stay beyond their houses at night,' Fakhrul stated covering a virtual discussion. Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD organised the occasion to talk about the role of the local government bodies in combating the Covid crisis. Fakhrul reported that the government is asserting that people connected to the BNP were arrested for their connection with Hefazat-e-Islam. 'BNP doesn't have connections with Hefazat. Instead the government is extremely close to Hefazat,' he said, adding the government has established a rule of terror. 'Several thousands of leaders of the BNP and its partner bodies were detained since March 26,' he explained. In addition, he added the'failed authorities' turn th...

Rafiqul was detained on March 25 out of Motijheel place in a demonstration protesting in the trip of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on the occasion of their golden jubilee of independence and later he had been freed. Rafiqul, also manager of Saoatul Hera Madrassah at Paschim Bilashpur at Netrakona, allegedly delivered provocative speech at a Waj Mahfil in Gachha recently. A Dhaka court on Thursday put Rafiqul Islam Madani, popularly known as Shishu Bokta, on a 7-day remand in a case registered under the Digital Security Act for delivering'anti-state and provocative' speeches. Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court judge Abu Sufian Md Noman passed the arrangement at a digital hearing after which the investigation officer of the case sought a 10-day remand to interrogate Shishu Bokta. Rafiqul Islam was set on 4-day remand in a different instance registered with Motijheel police station earlier on April 21. A Gazipur court to prison on April 8 when he was born before the court i...

Bangladesh has recorded the most elevated number of Covid-19 passings in a day since the pandemic made landfall in the country in March a year ago. The loss of life moved to 9,661 after 77 fatalities were enlisted in the 24 hours to 8:00 am Thursday, as indicated by information delivered by the public authority. The nation has recorded 5,343 new instances of the Covid, taking the count to 678,937. The most recent day's contamination rate was 20.49 percent of the all out tests. The passing rate remains at 1.42%. Another 3,837 individuals recuperated from COVID-19 through treatment at home and in emergency clinic care in a similar period, carrying the count of recuperations to 572,378 with a 84.30% recuperation rate. Among the most recent day's casualties, 53 were men and 24 were ladies. Every one of them kicked the bucket in various medical clinics the nation over. In the interim, 26,077 examples were tried in 243 labs the nation over in the previous 24 hours.

A man was killed and seven others harmed in a crash between a transport and a truck in Osmaninagar upazila in Sylhet on Tuesday. The character of the expired couldn't be known at this point. Witnesses said a Dhaka-bound truck hit a fixed truck out and about around 12:00pm when a transport of 'Greenline Paribahan' hit the truck from behind. The forward portion of the transport got crushed, leaving the transport assistant and seven travelers harmed. The harmed were raced to Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital where the harmed partner kicked the bucket. Official in-Charge of Osmaninagar police headquarters Shyamol Banik said the transport and truck were taken out from the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway. 

The favorable to Awami League board, 'Mahan Muktizuddher Chetanay Udbuddha Shikkhak Parishad', has cleared the educators' affiliation appointment of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology. On Monday (March 15) at 10:30 pm in the focal theater of the University, Chief Election Commissioner Dr. Zaida Sharmin declared the political race results. The wining board stowed ten positions, including the posts of president and general secretary, out of 11 posts of the leader advisory group. Another favorable to AL instructors' board, 'Mahan Muktizuddher Chetana O Muktachinta Charchay Oikyabaddha Shikkhak Parishad', got the rest one posts of the council while supportive of Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Jamaat educators' board neglected to win any situation in the surveys. Social Work office Professor Dr. Tulshi Kumar Das and Chemical Engineering and Polymer Science Associate Professor Md Mohibul Alam were chosen president and general secretary of the i...

A decent number of ranchers in Sylhet district have been anticipating a decent yield of Sunflower this year while development territory of the harvest has likewise been on expansion in the division in the midst of their expanding interest in the harvest for quite a long while. The situation is changing because of good returns for the successive years, Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) authorities educated as of late. The authorities likewise said in an offer to advocate the harvest as a business adventure, the DAE had given free seeds of High Yielding assortment Sunflower, manure and so forth to an aggregate of 4,100 poor and minor ranchers this season. It remembers 3000 for Sylhet, 1000 in Habiganj and 100 in Sunamganj. They have effectively developed one bigha each with the seed and manures. The authorities additionally educated that Sunflower had been developed on 2,350 hectares in the division. It remembers 850 hectares for Sylhet region while it is 565 hectares in M...

Close for seven and a half months, each of the four significant places of interest in Sylhet division including the Lawachhara National Park, Satchhari National Park, Madhabkunda Eco Park and the Tilagar Eco Park would be resumed for guests on November 1, an authority educated. The broadly significant vacationer areas were closed through a warning by the Chief Conservator of Forests on March 19 in the midst of the flare-up of the Covid-19 pandemic. The normal locales like Lawachhara and Satchhari had been in an interesting condition of quietness and the creatures moved unreservedly as there had been no social affair or clamor of plebeians' development around for certain months. The slopes returned to its old and common qualities during the most recent couple of months, the authorities said. Lawachhara National park is found atKomolganjupazila of Moulvibazar. Satchhari National Park is in Chunarughatupazila of Habiganj. Different destinations like Rema Kalenga Forest is in Hab...

An immediate transport administration from Dhaka to Jaflong and Bholaganj, mainstream places of interest in Sylhet division, will begin working from November 2, with the expect to help the travel industry in the nation, as per Imran Ahmad, Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister. The Minister thought of the comments on Saturday while initiating AC transport administration on Sylhet-Tamabil-Jaflong course on Saturday. Two transport administrations from Jaflong to Dhaka and Bholaganj to Dhaka will work from November 2, he said adding that travel industry in Sylhet has extraordinary prospects. "Numerous individuals will get work focusing the travel industry business in Sylhet", he trusted. 

Two express trains 'Paharika' and 'Jayantika' crashed in Sylhet Railway Station dockyard on Friday morning. Two compartments of Paharika Express were wrecked in the mishap. The episode upset the timetable of the trains on Sylhet-Dhaka and Sylhet-Chattogram course, said Sylhet Railway Station ace Khalilur Rahman. "The Dhaka-bound Jayantika Express was booked to leave Sylhet station at 11:15am however because of a mishap it left the station at 4:15pm in the wake of safeguarding the train. The train was booked to leave for Chattogram at 10:15am yet couldn't leave the station till night," the station ace said A four-part council has been framed to research the mishap, Khalilur said. All the signs were dynamic yet not followed appropriately that caused the mishap. 

A court in Sylhet has conceded a five-day remand for suspended associate sub-investigator Ashek Elahi for a situation recorded over death of Raihan Ahmed at Bandarbazar Police Outpost in Sylhet. The court passed the request after Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) delivered him before it looking for remand for him on Thursday. In any case, the court conceded a three-day new remand for suspended police constable Harun in similar case.PBI individuals on Wednesday night captured Ashek Elahi from Sylhet Police Lines. As indicated by examination, a police group, driven by Ashek, confined Raihan and welcomed him to the police station on October 10. On October 11, Raihan, 34, an inhabitant of Akharia in Sylhet city, was pounded the life out of in police guardianship, said the casualty's family. His significant other Tahmina Akter Tanni recorded a case at Kotwali Police Station the next day blaming a number for unidentified individuals. Additionally, the experts on October 12...

Recently named Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP) Commissioner Nisharul Arif has said that everybody associated with the slaughtering of Raihan Ahmed would be dealt with.  "The episode is undesirable and some police authorities were associated with it. I am embarrassed about it. The individuals who carried out the wrongdoing are lawbreakers. They will be brought to book regardless of which calling they have a place with," he said while visiting the place of Raihan on Tuesday night.  The law implementation organizations are attempting to capture the crooks. Lawful move will be made against the individuals who helped Akbar to escape the nation, he said.  Answering to an inquiry concerning the part of police organization, the SMP Commissioner stated: "I've joined today and I'll check it. Additionally, there are a few guidelines from the higher specialists concerned and I trust in the arrangement, position, and control strategy. I accept it'll be conceivable to m...

The relatives of Raihan Ahmed finished their yearning strike on Sunday evening after Sylhet City Corporation Mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury disclosed to them that he would converse with the specialists worried to guarantee the charged are captured. Raihan's mom Salma Begum and relatives began a yearning strike from 11:00am requesting the capture of all denounced, including suspended sub-auditor Akbar Hossain Bhuiyan. The occupants of the territory likewise participated in it communicating solidarity.Mayor Ariful went to Raihan's home and told his mom that he would converse with the home priest, the unfamiliar clergyman and others concerned. "And still, at the end of the day, if the denounced are not captured, I will get a bigger development together with the individuals of Sylhet," he said. Around then Salma Begum stated: "I would prefer not to hear additional confirmations. I need to see the activity." Conversing with columnists prior in the first p...

Individuals from Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) captured another cop, who was suspended over the passing of Raihan at Bandarbazar police station, from Sylhet policelines on Friday night. The arrestee is Harun Rashid, a constable of Bandarbazar Police Outpost, said Khalekuzzaman, administrator of Sylhet Police. Prior, on October 20, PBI captured constable Titu Chandra Das for the situation. He is currently on a five-day remand. On October 11, Rayhan Ahmed, 34, an inhabitant of Akharia in Sylhet city, was pounded the life out of in police authority, said the group of the person in question . His significant other Tahmina Akter Tanni documented a case with Kotwali Police Station the next day blaming a number for unidentified individuals. Moreover, the experts on October 12 suspended four police officers, incorporating the responsible for Bandarbazar Police station Sub-Inspector Akbar Hossain, regarding the passing of a man 'in police authority' in Sylhet. They ar...

A youth named Raihan Uddin Ahmed (34) died at the Bandarbazar outpost of Kotwali police station after being injured in a mass beating in a wooded area of Sylhet city, police claimed. However, no such image of mass beating was found in the closed circuit (CC) camera set up by the ward councilor in the area. The wooden house area belongs to ward 14 of Sylhet City Corporation. The entire area is covered by closed circuit (CC) cameras. These cameras are monitored in the office of Ward Councilor Nazrul Islam. Visiting his office on Sunday night, footage captured on CCTV cameras in the Kastghar area from 12pm on Saturday to 6am on Sunday did not show any scenes of mass beatings. Even at this time no police patrol was seen in the wooded area. Ward councilor Nazrul told Sylhet Today, 'I also saw the footage of the night and morning captured on CCTV. No incident of mass beating was seen in the area from Saturday night to Sunday morning. Nothing suspicious was seen in the footage. I talked t...

Sylhet has a number of tourist attractions to keep you busy while you are here. The city has its own airport, international cricket stadium and Zakariya City Eco Park. If you are looking for some historical sights, you may want to check out the Osmani Shishu Udyan and the Hazrat Shah Jalal's conquest of Sylhet. Hazrat Shah Jalal's conquest of Sylhet The Muslim saint Hazrat Shah Jalal's conquest of Sylhet is an interesting episode in history. It is considered one of the most significant contributions to the liberation of the Sylhet region of Bangladesh. Before his conquest, the city of Sylhet was a Hindu kingdom. However, the conquerors were able to convert thousands of Hindus to Islam. In fact, Hazrat Shah Jalal was the first to preach Islam in Sylhet. He is credited with several miracles in his life and death. After his conquest, Shah Jalal settled in Sylhet. His followers were spread across Dhaka, Mymensingh, Kamrup and Comilla. They were involved in the campaign to overt...