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‘Green Broiler’ safe for consumption

A research team of Rajshahi University (RU) has developed antibiotic-free and chemical-laced free 'Green Broiler' chicken which is completely safe for consumption. According to sources, a team of researchers headed by Dr. Shariful Islam and Dr. Hakimul Haque of the Department of Veterinary a...

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Char children engaged in manual labour

Hundreds of children of various charlands of Rajahahi are being engaged as child labourers by leaving schools due to utter poverty and absence of facilities of education. Specially, amid the Coronavirus pandemic and the devastating erosion of the char villages on the river Padma have rendered hundre...

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Rainwater harvesting project proved successful under BMDA

An 18-kilometre long canal re-excavated by Barind Multipurpose Development Authorities (BMDA) in Naogaon is contributing hundreds of farmers of the region by supplying them with irrigation water as well as fishes. The canal is also playing a vital role in the water thirsty ‘Tha Tha (bone-dry) ...

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Prospect of ell fish farming bright in the country

Kuicha or Kuincha, Kunchia fish, Kuchia alias Kuchey Baim or Asian Swamp Eel is a fish belonged to Eel species under Sybrabcgudae family. The scientific name of the fish is Monopterus Kuchia. According to Wildlife (Preservation and Safety) Act, the fish is a preserved species. This long, serpen...

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Uttara Gonobhaban resounds with chirping of birds

While Corona virus pandemic was threatening the existence of human beings throughout the globe, the natural environment of Uttara Gonobhaban has imbued with the serenity and tranquility with the chirping of hundreds of varieties of birds. However, the nature lovers in Natore have expressed thei...

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Dried fish production reduce alarmingly in Chalanbeel areas

Despite there being a huge demand of dried-fish caught and processed from Chalanbeel areas, production of fish has been decreased alarmingly at the Beel now-a days. As a result, more than five hundred dried-fish producing villages and thousands of fishermen dependent on dried-fish processing and pro...

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Steps needed to save Bon-Murgi from being extinct

A group of bird-lovers in Rajshahi had detected an extremely rare bird at the charland beside the river Padma in Rajshahi during the mid-leg of 2018. The bird was thought to be extinct from Bangladesh.The bird once thrived in abundance in Bangladesh but, due to indiscriminate hunting and killing, th...

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Scuttling for a safe shelter!

The village is just across the river Padma, one kiometre of journey on boat from Rajshahi city. Though the entire city of Rajshahi is throbbing with the panic of Coronavirus pandemic, the people of the village are completely free from the infection.When the river is full of water, people of the vill...

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Oxygen supply for corona patients a great challenge at RMCH

During the first phase of the infection, the Corona patients did not require Oxygen for treatment at RMCH but from the starting of March this year, Oxygen has become an essential element for treatment of Indian Delta variant infected patients. The demand of Oxygen at the hospital is also increa...

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Rajshahi mango growers in despair for lockdown

With the huge sized mangoes named 'Kumra Jali', Hanif of Durgapur was waiting at Baneswarhat for customers. Many inquisitive people were seen crowding in front of his van to watch such large sized mangoes but no one asked for the price. Another mango farmer Afaz Ali was waiting with the...

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Corona jab scarcity takes toll on Rajshahi people

People of Rajshahi are lagging far behind in accessing to the Corona virus vaccines. Though the number of daily infections and the number of deaths by being attacked with Corona virus are the highest in this frontier district, no emergency step has so far been taken from any quarter to vaccinate the...

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Black fungus worries physicians in Rajshahi

Several patients carrying the symptoms of black fungus are now being treated in various hospitals of the country. Already, the presence of Black Fungus is being suspected in the body of a patient who died during treatment in a hospital in Dhaka recently.  Some specialist physicians of Rajshahi ...

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Corona spreading fast in frontier areas of Rajshahi

After a slight decrease just before the Eid-ul-fitre, Coronavirus is spreading in a virulent form in frontier villages of Rajshahi, mainly in Chapainawabganj. As a result, the number of Coronavirus infected patients is once again increasing in Rajshahi Medical College Hospital. A half of the to...

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Environ-friendly bio-toilets to be set up in trains soon

Environment-friendly bio-toilets will be set up in all toilets of trains of the country soon.Kudrat-E-Khuda, Chief Mechanical Engineer of Bangladesh Railway, West Zone in Rajshahi, said this. He said, due to the absence of bio-toilets the environment of the railway track and the surroundings ar...

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Shakha artisans of Bagatipara facing crisis for Covid-19 situation

Over one hundred artisans of Shakha, a white bangle made of 'Conch Shell', of village Jamnagar under Bagatipara upazila of Natore district are facing an acute financial crisis due to non-selling of their products during the Coronavirus pandemic.  Many of the artisan families were often ...

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Rajshahi under Green Zone

No area of Rajshahi district is still under 'Red Zone' for Coronavirus infection that is why the district is still free from strict lock-down, informed Dr. Enamul Haque, Civil Surgeon of Rajshahi on Tuesday morning. CS Dr. Enamul clarified if 10 persons among 100,000 people of any area ...

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Al-Amin returns to light

At his early teenage, Al-Amin entered into the world of darkness. Later on, for last 10-year, he spends most of his time traversing through jungles and forest. He did not have the gut to enter his own home at day time. He visited his house at the darkness of night and again got out from there b...

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Ministry bashed for order over tobacco production

Lawmaker, local elites and various anti-tobacco organisations across the country have vehemently condemned the order of the Ministry of Industry to the officials concerned to assist and cooperate to continue production in tobacco industries, purchase of tobacco leaf, supply and distribution of tobac...

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Road being constructed again on Padma river bed

An influential political leader in Rajshahi was making a road through the dead riverbed of Padma defying an order of the district administration of Rajshahi. It is learnt, the same leader had started to make the road earlier by dumping sand and soil through the river bed but the district administrat...

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Seed, sapling crisis may hit onion cultivation

Onion cultivation in Rajshahi may be a setback due to an acute shortage and high price of onion seeds and young-saplings of onion this year.  Onion is mainly produced at Durgapur Bagmara, Puthia, Paba and Mohanpur of the district. The farmers of those areas are worried this year as they won'...