Sylhet, a paradise of natural beauty, offers boundless attractions for travelers.

With support from volunteer organization Noyon Foundation, non-governmental organization Orbis International has successfully arranged cataract surgery for 172 tea workers in Sylhet. The workers ...

Tea plantation workers in Sylhet under the state-owned National Tea Company, or NTC, have been grappling with severe financial hardships as they have not been paid salaries for more than two months.

Rishi Goyala, a tea worker at Sylhet’s Lakatura Tea Estate under the state-owned National Tea Company, has been working at the estate for 40 years. He resides in the workers' colony of the ...

May 3 -- Tea workers in Sylhet threatened to block Sylhet Airport road on Sunday, to press home their 11-point demand including payment of their dues. Some 2500 workers along with their families ...

On Sunday, the protesters blocked the Sylhet-Dhaka highway as they escalated the strike. The workers’ union is demanding a 150 percent (300 taka or $3.15 a day) rise in their daily wages.

However, the first commercial tea garden was established in 1857 in Malnicherra, in the eastern city of Sylhet. At the same time, concern over the environmental and ecological damages of tea ...