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Three drug peddlers arrested with 1,400 grams of heroin, Yaba

A team of detective police under Rajshahi Metropolitan Police and the members of RAB-5, Rajshahi arrested three drug-peddlers with 1,400 grammes of heroin and 360 pieces of Yaba  from various places of the district on Monday and Tuesday. Three arrested drug-peddlers have been identified as...

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Hot spell, hailstorm damage mango orchards badly

The hot,dry-spell with no rainfall for a long time is badly hampering the smooth growth of Mango in Rajshahi and  Chapain­wabganj this year. A strong, sand-storm on Sunday afternoon in Rajshahi and Chapainawab­ganj and the hailstorm of last Friday in parts of Rajshahi will make an adver...

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Farmers losing interest in jujube farming

The farmers of Rajshahi are clearing down their Jujube (Plum or Kul) orchards because of a huge loss in the cultivation of the fruit during the last couples of years. According to the jujube farm owners, the first two years brought enough yield of jujube fruit but now the yield is not quite as ...

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Rajshahi traders demand their shops open during lockdown

By defying the lockdown imposed by the government due the Coronavirus pandemic, traders of Rajshahi kept their shops open at Saheb Bazaar and in RDA market on Wednesday (7 Apr). Most of the markets of Binodepur, Railway market, Shahlbagan and Rajshahi Court market also remain open today. Accord...

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‘Tobacco needs to be more costly to discourage smoking’

'To rid the country of tobacco menace, there is no alternative to further effective tobacco taxation. All government and non-government stakeholders must come together to do so,' said the Deputy Speaker of the  Parliament Fazle Rabbi Miah MP in a Webinar entitled ‘Tobacco Taxation...

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Lalpur cart-wheel industries facing extinction

The cart-wheel industries of Lalpur are on the verge of extinction due to decreasing demand of wheels, increase of price of the production-materials and the low sale price.Hundreds of artisans of the upazila have already abandoned their paternal profession of cart wheel making and adopted other prof...

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Language veteran Abul Hossain dies

Language movement veteran AbulHossain breathed his last at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital around 4-00 pm on Wednesday. He was 87 years old. Family members of AbulHossain said that they took him to the Emergency Department of RMCH where the attending doctor BillalUddin declared him dead. Brig...

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Rajshahi adjudged district prone to extreme climate

Rajshahi has been adjudged as the 'extreme climate prone' district of the country. In a research conducted on Environment and Public Health by Atik Ahsan, it is seen from reviewing temperature of nine districts of the country from 1980 to 2017 that Rajshahi and Jashore are the extreme c...

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17 killed in multi-vehicle crash in Rajshahi

At least 17 people, including 13 members of four families, were killed in a fatal multi-vehicle crash on Dhaka-Rajshahi Highway in Katakhali area in Rajshahi city on Friday (March 26). Three vehicles-- a bus, a microbus and a human hauler (Laguna)-- were involved in the massive pile-up at about...

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Menace of stray dogs in Rajshahi

The menace of stray dogs has increased in Rajshahi city during the last couple of years. No action is being taken by the authorities concerned of Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) to control the breeding of stray dogs. RCC authorities said, “The breeding of stray dogs could not be checked d...

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Doctor ‘commits’ suicide in Rajshahi

A doctor has allegedly committed suicide by consuming excessive sleeping pills during treatment at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital in the early hours of Monday. The deceased was identified as Lutaf Rahman, 27.He was admitted to RMCH around 4am where he died during treatment after half an hour...

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Peanut farming up in Rajshahi

Cultivation of peanuts (groundnuts) at the sandy charland of the river Padma in Rajshahi is getting popular day by day. Farmers have been earning a good profit by cultivating the peanut at a low cost. So they are interested in cultivating peanuts in the charland.According to the Department of Agricu...

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HBCOP forms human chain in Rajshahi

As a part of countrywide progra­mme, Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council, Rajshahi city, formed a human chain in protest against the attack on the people and houses of Hindu at Nayagaon village under Shalla upazila of Sunamganj district at the Zero point of Shaheb Bazaar on Saturda...

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OC closed for wearing indecent dress

Zillur Rahman, Officer-in-charge of  Katakhali Police station under RMP has been withdrawn and closed to police line for wearing erroneous dress during the celebration of the birth centenary functions and the National Children's Day. In accordance with the direction from the Police Headquar...

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Training aircraft crashes in Rajshahi

A Cessna-152 training aircraft of Bangladesh Flying Club crash-landed on a potato field in a place between Lalpur and Aradighi villages under Tanore upazila of Rajshahi around 2:00pm on Tuesday. However, no one is injured in the incident.The training aircraft was carrying a pilot and a trainee. Both...

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PM fulfilling Bangabandhu’s dream: Tajul

LGRD Minister Tajul Islam MP was awarded a civic reception by the authorities of Rajshahi City Corporation at the Green Plaza of Nagar Bhaban on Saturday evening.In his speech LGRD Minister Tajul Islam said in the function as the chief guest that Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahma...

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Rajshahi will turn an exceptional city: LGRD Minister

LGRD Minister Tajul Islam has said,' Rajshahi is being developed. Rajshahi would turn to an exceptional city in future.'LGRD Minister Tajul Islam was talking to the journalists during the inauguration of the 6.793-kilometre four-lane link road from Alif Lam Meem to Bihas crossing in Rajshahi...

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Onion-seed production doubles in Rajshahi this year

The production of onion-seed has increased nearly double this year (2021) than that of previous year in nine upazilas of Rajshahi.According to the source of Rajshahi Agriculture Extension Department, in 2020, onion-seed was cultivated on 256 hectares of land from where 166 metric-tonnes of seed was ...

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Miller for enrolment of more BD students in US varsities

Earl R Miller, US Ambassador to Bangladesh has focussed on education and cultural exchange programs between the two countries and emphasised on enrolment of more Bangladeshi students to US educational institutions. US Ambassador Earl Robert Miller pays a courtesy visit to AHM Khairuzzaman Liton...

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Training for transgender people held

A day-long training programme for transgender people was held at a local restaurant in Rajshahi on Monday. In cooperation with Manusher Jonno Foundation and financed by Global Affairs Canada, Diner Alo Hijra Sangha organised the training programme.Trainers and participants of the programme disc...