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Private practitioners go online

The private practitioners in various clinics and private hospitals in Rajshahi have now adopted to treat patients' on line' or through 'Video Conferencing' in the wake of Coronavirus pandemic. As a result, patients are being deprived from getting a proper treatment and many of t...

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RCMH authorities protest Construction of trash STS

Nurses, doctors, employees of Rajshahi Christian Mission Hospital and local people of Chandipur area of Rajshahi city on Monday morning protested the move of Rajshahi City Corporation to construct a Secondary Transfer Station of trashes in front of the Hospital.It is learnt, a temporary STS was in o...

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Rajshahi farmers expect a bumper paddy output

Harvesting and threshing of paddy has started in full swing in the fields of Rajshahi. Due to extreme heat and a favourable climatic condition, farmers of the district are expecting a bumper production of paddy this year.Sources of Department of Agriculture Extension, Rajshahi, informed the harvesti...

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Fruit bagging of mangoes begins in Rajshahi

To ensure safe and insecticide-free fruit production, bagging of some 50 lakh mangoes starts in the orchards of Rajshahi.It is expected that at least 1,000 metric tonnes of mangoes will be processed under 'fruit bagging' system this year of which at least 300 metric tonnes of mangoes will be...

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Rajshahi borders vulnerable to Coronavirus spread

The movement through frontier routes connecting Bangladesh and India remained suspended from April-25 due to a terrible situation of Corona virus infection in India. Due to a sudden closure of all immigration routes, thousands of people, both Bangladeshi and the Indians, remained trapped on both sid...

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Transport workers demand resumption of vehicular movement

Transport labourers took out procession and held a way side meeting in front of Seroil Bus Terminal area  of the city on Sunday morning demanding resumption of movement of intercity and the local bus services to and from Rajshahi. After parading various streets of the city, the agitators organi...

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Stock of Covid vaccines waning in Rajshahi

The stock of Corona virus vaccines is declining rapidly in Rajshahi. Until Thursday (29 April), the total stock of Covid-19 vaccines in Rajshahi district and under Rajshahi City Corporation areas was only 15,000 which would be exhausted within a couple of days. Rajshahi Civil Surgeon offic...

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Armed forces distribute relief in Rajshahi

Members of Bangladesh Army have distributed relief materials among the jobless, poverty stricken people of Rajshahi during this prevailing Coronavirus crisis. All the relief materials including food and essential commodities were gathered and distributed from the own fund of the armed forces members...

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Unripe mangoes, litchis falling for extreme heat

Extreme heat and a long absence of rainfall for months is perishing young mangoes and litchis on the orchards while destroying standing paddy in Rajshahi region. Habibur Rahman of Haripur area under Paba upazila was pouring water through a bucket at the feet of the Litchi (Lychee) trees. He sai...

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Re-excavation of Boral River needed soon

Once a turbulent Boral River is now a narrow canal like a drain. The mighty branch of the river Padma, Boral is now a cultivable land where paddy and seasonal crops are being grown for more than a decade. Constuction of a Sluice Gate on the entrance of the river at Charghat, drying up of the ri...

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Durgapur farmers hopeful of bumper Boro yield

Despite hot, dry weather without any rainfall, the growth of Boro paddy in the fields of Durgapur upazila is satisfactory and the farmers are hopeful of getting a bumper paddy production if the weather condition remains favourable for the next one week. Farmer Nurul Islam of Durgapur Municipal ...

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Pick-up vans distributed among fishermen in Bagmara

Department of Fisheries under its National Technology Programme, Phase-2, has distributed two pick-up vans at a subsidized rate among fishermen members under CIG Association through a function held at Bagmara upazila parishad premises on Sunday noon. Among others, the function was attended by U...

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Corona infection declines in Rajshahi

In the aftermath of the second wave of the Coronavirus infection, the number of Covid-19 virus infected patients starts to increase in Rajshahi. More than one hundred patients are detected with the Coronavirus in the laboratory of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital in an average daily. Most of such i...

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Rajshahi div to get 30 more ICUs

Rajshahi division is getting 30 more ICUs to be used in the hospitals of Rajshahi and Bogura districts, informed Dr. Habibul Ahsan Taluder, Director of Health, Rajshahi division to the journalists recently. It is learnt that Rajshahi Divisional Health Directorate sought 121 ICUs to the Ministry...

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Traders reopen shops defying lockdown in Rajshahi

Traders of RDA market, the largest market of Rajshahi City, have reopended their shops and business establishments from Thursday morning by defying the ongoing 'lockdown'.It is learnt, on Wednesday morning, leaders of RDA Market Traders Association declared to start a street agitation and mo...

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Lockdown reduces patients at RMCH

The number of patients at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital has been reduced after the imposition of an 'all-out' lockdown to control the Coronavirus situation. Specially, the number of daily patients at the Outdoor of the hospital has been reduced drastically. The total number of patients i...

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Vegetables, chicken prices rising in Rajshahi markets

Prices of all types of vegetables, chicken and essential commodities registered a rise during the second phase of Corona lockdown in Rajshahi. Though the traders in Rajshahi predicted a non-increase of prices of essentials including the vegetables during the holy month of Ramadan, in reality, the pr...

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Frustrated, underaged wife kills husband at Mohanpur

Mohanpur police arrested Karima Khatun (14) for killing her husband Harunur Rashid(28) from Bishohara village of the Mohanpur upazila on Wednesday morning. Karima Khatun informed, being frustrated with an increased physical demand from her husband, she strangled him dead after administering him slee...

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Body of young woman found in Rajshahi

The dead body of a young woman aged 20-22 years has been recovered from inside a drum abandoned in a water body at the City Haat area under RMP on Friday morning. The identity of the victim could not be identified immediately.It is learnt, locals watched a human leg peeping through a drum abandoned ...

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Traders urge reopening of shops soon

Shop Owners leader of Rajshahi has pleaded to the government to reopen shops by following the necessary health rules. President of Rajshahi Shop Owners' Association Golam Sarwar Swapon in a statement said during the lock-down of last year all the traders in Rajshahi like those in the entire...