Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram K. Doraiswami visited Sylhet city on Saturday and joined inauguration of three projects. The projects are development of Dhupadighipar area, construction of Cleaners Colony building at Kastoghar and construction of a School building at Chara Dighi Par. Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen, LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Md. Tazul Islam and Mayor of the Sylhet City Corporation Ariful Haque Chowdhury, jointly inaugurated the projects.

A Sylhet court on Wednesday sentenced three people to death and one to life  term imprisonment in a murder case. The court also ordered also fined the convicts Tk 50,000 each . The condemned convicts are Syeda Rakha Begum, Ali Hossain and Rezwan alias Redwan and the lifer is Khaliquzzaman Layek. READ: Dhaka’s rail links with Ctg, Sylhet restored after 10 hrs Among the accused, Syeda Rakha Begum and Khaliquzzaman Layek were tried in absentia. According to the case statement, Sadiqur Rahman Sadiq and Syeda Rakha Begum had been living together (without getting married) at a house in Noagaon area of Sylhet Sadar upazila.  As Sadiq’s family refused to accept their relationship Rakha with her companions killed him in October, 2015.