About Us
by st editor Monday 18th January 2010
The Award Winning Newspaper – now online.
First Issue Published Jan 2008 – 100% Online Digital Publication from Jan 2010
The Sylhet Times has won awards and received much praise for its friendly “good news” approach
concentrating on stories of positive achievement by and from the Bengali community relevant
to the local, national and global community.
Published from Oldham, Greater Manchester in the Northwest UK. We follow in the footsteps
of pioneers such as “Somachar” a Bangladeshi paper by Oldham Libraries ethnic minority project
in 1993 and the London newspaper Surma which has been published for the Sylheti-speaking Bangaladeshi
community since 1978.
We have come a long way since our first issue in January 2008 and in 2010 two great years after
our first printed edition moved the publication on-line in a big way.
The Sylhet Times Digital will be the No.1 portal for up-to-date Sylheti and general interest stories
and images from around the world with a truly unique angle. Special issues will be printed on occasion
but the main game will be right here.
This is the future. Local, National and International News, Reviews, Features and Classifieds,
totally fresh, dynamic, interactive and on-line.