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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...

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...

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...