CookingBeef cooked with satkara, a sour and fragrant citrus from Sylhet, is one of the region's best-known dishes. Here are the ingredients and steps from a recipe Jagonews24 published in May 2026.
EnvironmentOn 30 April 2026 the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre said above-normal rain until 7 May could flood low-lying parts of Sylhet, Sunamganj, Moulvibazar and Habiganj and worsen the flooding already under way in Netrokona's haors.
EnvironmentRain sent the Surma, Kushiyara, Manu, Khowai and Juri rising fast, and on 28 April 2026 the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre warned of flash floods in the Sylhet region, with about half of the haor boro crop still uncut.
In Ramadan the pace slows at Sylhet's Malinichhara tea garden, where Muslim workers and staff find time for prayers and iftar with family or at the mosque.
After failing in cattle, contracting and stone trading, Sirajul Islam Rekhon of Fenchuganj built a fruit orchard that now earns him about Tk 1.5 crore a year.
A tourist visiting Jaflong in Sylhet was bitten on the leg by a snake at Mayabi waterfall; the snake was not venomous and he is out of danger.
Ninety-seven per cent of the boro rice in Bangladesh's haor wetlands has been harvested, while 33 per cent has been cut nationwide.
A python more than seven feet long, caught in a fishing net in Gowainghat, Sylhet, was saved by police and released into the forest.
Small illegal cattle markets have appeared across Sylhet city's neighbourhoods, but high prices are keeping sales slow ahead of Eid-ul-Azha.
A motorbike trip to Sreemangal takes in its tea gardens, Lawachara National Park, the Shyamoli picnic spot, the famous seven-colour tea and the town's only waterfall.
More than 400 farmers in Nijpat union of Jaintiapur, Sylhet, who once worked in stone quarries, have become self-reliant growing early vegetables.
An owl that took shelter from a storm in a Sylhet lecturer's home was cared for by her and her daughter and flew back to its nest the next day.
With little oversight from the authorities, poachers are freely killing birds in Hakaluki haor with poison bait and traps as migratory birds prepare to leave.
