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Movement of people and vehicles in Rajshahi city is gradually turning to normal as a large number of people as well as vehicles are seen to move through the city streets during the last couple of days by defying restrictions imposed by law enforcement agency members on the backdrop of the coronaviru...
On the backdrop of the Coronavirus turmoil throughout the country, neither Rajshahi City Corporation nor the Rajshahi Medical College Hospital has so far taken any advance measure to check the spread of and to treat the patients attacked with another looming epidemic- Dengue. According to sourc...
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Usually the poor who depend on for daily wages for living are most vulnerable when the trends in the economic growth go negative and that too in a small city like Rajshahi where economic activities are generally far less distinct. At a time like this when the entire world is literally fighting a war...
Prices of all sort of eggs, chicken and vegetables have fallen abnormally in rural hats and markets of the district since there are no sufficient customers of those due to panic of Corona virus spread.Moreover, due to failure of reaching the wholesale traders in various hats and markets of the distr...
All the eight major rivers crisscrossing greater Rajshahi have almost been dried up even before starting of the dry season. For this reason, more than five million people who used to depend for their livelihood direct on these rivers have become unemployed and displaced.The rivers are the Padma, Moh...
A total of 135 new persons have been put under home quarantine in the Rajshahi district totalling the number to 299, informed Dr Enamul Haque, Civil Surgeon of Rajshahi. Civil Surgeon office sources further said, a total of 366 persons so far been taken under home quarantine, of them, 67 were r...
A mobile court in Rajshahi conducted raid at the whole sale rice market at Kumarpara of the city on Thursday morning and realise a fine of Taka 5,000 from the owner of a rice shop for selling rice at a higher price than the normal on the back drop of coronavirus panic. According to sources, Ra...
About 126 prisoners at Rajshahi Central Jail, who have served 20-year of their life-term imprisonment, are now expecting to be released under Section-569 of Prisons Act 1894. The decision has been taken on the occasion of observing the Mujib Barsho on March-17. According to sources, releasing of pri...
A joint rescue team of divers comprised of Fire Services, BGB, River Police and BIWTA recovered dead body of a newly married bride from the river Padma on Monday morning, three-day after she was drowned in the river as two boats carrying them capsized in the middle of the river. The rescue tea...
The mile long forest created under Social Forestry Programme at the char land of Faradpur under Godagari upazila is being devastated by some influential quarters of the locality. Under the cover of darkness after evening, large trees of the forest are being felled and plundered. Local people a...
Police of Bagmara thana were desperately searching for three construction workers who allegedly managed to escape with valuable treasures hidden in an earthen pitcher under an under-construction building of Alamgir Hossain son of Abdul Aziz Joarder of Chanpara area under Bhawaniganj Municipality of ...
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A base line survey report through a press conference held at the conference room of Association for Community Development-ACD in Rajshahi on Thursday has revealed that the Tobacco Control Law is being violated worryingly in various government offices, educational institutions, health care facilities...
Ornithologists at a survey have detected presence of 37 species of birds at the char-land of the river Padma near Rajshahi. It is learnt, the survey of the migratory and local birds known as 'Birds' Census' was conducted under the World Bird Monitoring Programme of International Uni...
Incidents of snatching by muggers by using motorbikes have been continuing to rise in Rajshahi for a long time. By riding on motorbikes, the muggers were approaching their target with a high speed and were escaping fast by snatching bags from the pedestrians and rickshaw riders in the city streets. ...
Ferrying of passengers at the Bangladeshi Char (Shoal) villages on the river Padma through boats has been suspended from last Saturday due to protests since the Indian Border Security Force (BSF).The BSF through a letter sent to BGB has prohibited the movement of boats through the frontier areas of ...
Dozens of fishing boats with nets are tied-down in rows beside the river Padma as the fishermen in Rajshahi district don’t go for fishing in the river fearing retaliation from the River Police. They complained, the River Police was seizing their boats and were indiscriminately torching th...
Due to an exorbitant price of drugs, the drug addicts in Rajshahi were using some alternative, low-cost, available drugs to quench their addiction. According to sources, drug addicts were using Cinta tablets and Pentadol, Pentad or Pentode and Cilostozol tablets as the alternative for the Yaba, a co...
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The freshers' orientation-2020 of Varendra University was held at Kazi Nazrul Islam auditorium of Rajshahi University of Monday. About 2,000 students of ten departments of VU attended the orientation. Dr Osman Gani Talukder, Vice-Chancellor of Varendra University, presided over the function...
Parts of Rajshahi City Protection Embankment turned vulnerable due to on rush of water during the full-monsoon last year. Concrete blocks of the embankment have been loosened and removed from some areas. Last year, the vulnerable parts of the embankment was repaired somehow by dumping sand-bag...
The White Egret or heron (stork), known as Sada Bok in Bengali, is now rarely seen to stand beside water bodies to catch its prey.The number of canals, water bodies and rivers being dumped and large trees and bamboo groves being felled, these birds have lost their habitats and are on the verge of ex...
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