India’s Border Security Force shot at three Bangladeshis, including a woman, in the Jaintapur frontier in Sylhet on Sunday. The Bangladesh Rifles and the Border Security Force traded several hundred gunshots along the Bibir Haor and Shreepur borders at Jaintapur between 2:00am and 4:00pm, sources said.
Police detained at least 18 Jamaat-Shibir men from a demonstration in Sylhet on Friday. Activists of fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir brought out a demonstration at around 2.00 pm from court point protesting against murders of Shibir members Shahin in Chapainawabganj and Chittagong University student Mahiuddin, and arrest of Rajshahi Jamaat amir Ataur Rahman.
Industries Minister Dilip Barua said the government is working hard to set up an export processing zone (EPZ) as well as a special economic zone (SEZ) in Sylhet considering its industrial potentiality, reports UNB. The Minister said this while addressing a reception accorded to him by BSCIC authorities on the city’s outskirts Khadimnagar on Saturday.
Around 250,000 buildings in the three major cities of Bangladesh—Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet—are extremely vulnerable to earthquakes, according to a recent survey. Some 142,000 among 180,000 buildings in Chittagong; 24,000 out of 52,000 in Sylhet; and 78,000 out of 326,000 buildings in Dhaka were detected as risky.
Hundreds of water bodies and small rivers in the greater Sylhet region are already facing a water crisis during the dry season, according to Bangladesh Water Development Board, even before India has begun construction of the contentious Tipaimukh dam project upstream in Manipur that has triggered widespread environmental fears for the region.
Activists of Nirvik, an environmental organization, on Friday set out on a six-day 264km long march to Sylhet to mobilise public opinion against New Delhi’s move to construct a dam on the river Barak at Tipaimukh in the north-eastern state of Manipur.
Another soldier of the Bangladesh Rifles died of cardiac arrest at Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital on Saturday.
The finance minister, Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, has laid stress on ensuring participation of the cross-section of people to prepare master plan for any city.
A special economic zone on 1000 acres of land in Sylhet district could attract more FDI from expatriate Bangladeshis to help set up industrial projects there.
