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The murder of Rural Medical Practitioner Dr Abdul Mannan (70) of Charghat upazila nearly seven months ago is still shrouded in mystery. No one is still certain why Mannan was brutally stabbed to death. Family members and people of the locality have expressed their disappointment at the long delay in...
Instead of purchasing books of printed papers, photocopied pages of books have been purchased from the press at Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology at a cost of Tk 10 lakh. Even, the price of those photocopied books have been shown several times more than the prices of those printed bo...
The 'Rajanigandha' bus which was 'stolen' from in front of Rajshahi Seroil Bus Terminal has been recovered from beside Sirajganj-Bogura highway at Boalia crossing under Sirajganj district after 12-00 noon on Saturday. Owner of the bus named Rajanigandha Majedul Islam informed th...
Several frontier routes including eight routes of Rajshahi and three routes of Chapainawabganj have turned to safe haven for gold-bar smuggling from Bangladesh to India. It is learnt, gold-bars are smuggled to India through more than 50 frontier routes of which 11 routes of Rajshahi and Chapain...
Five-type of Bananas developed through tissue culture of flowers after five-year research by Professor Dr Anowar Hossain of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Rajshahi University have got a great popularity from the farmers of 64-districts of the country. These newly developed b...
Once upon a time, Rajshahi city was termed as the city of ponds but even within the last one decade, more than 97 percent ponds of the city have been filled up and high-rise buildings have been constructed there. At present, the number of ponds in the city has been reduced to less than 2...
Women from various walks of life formed a human chain demanding to reserve 100 seats in the National Parliamentary Elections aiming at the empowerment of women at the Zero Point of Shaheb Bazar from 10-00 AM to 11-30 AM on Wednesday. Speakers at the human chain demanded to increase the reserved...
The number of slum dwellers is increasing in Rajshahi, a survey conducted by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and the Centre for Urban Studies revealed the fact.It is learnt that, there having no industrial infrastructures, Rajshahi remains a city consisting mainly of students, teachers and professio...
Date juice extraction and making of jaggery or gur (molasses) has turned to a profitable business in Bagha and Charghat upazilas of Rajshahi district due to its huge demand and the high market price.More than 10,000 people of Bagha and Charghat upazilas are learnt to be engaged in extracting d...
Once the Barind region of greater Rajshahi district was famous for Pineapple cultivation but now-a-days, it is only a forgotten past. The Pineapple bushes are no longer seen in the region though hundreds of farmers of the region could become self-reliant by cultivating Pineapple in the fallow land a...
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A bicycle rally covering some 60-kilometres of roads was held demanding to save the Barind region from the adverse impact of climate change. The bicycle rally organised jointly by BARSIC, a non-governmental research organisation and the Barendra Region Jubo Sangathan Forum, started from Rajshah...
The flower named Gerbera is new for Bangladeshi people. It is a flower resembles to Sunflower and its leaf looks like that of the spinach. The flower has become very popular in this country within a couple of years or so.Almost 30 varieties of Gerbera flowers are available in the market of the count...
Environmentalists and rights activists on Saturday formed a human chain in Rajshahi demanding worldwide halt in the investment on fossil fuel to save the earth.The demand was raised at a time when the annual general meeting of the World Bank Group is being held in New York from 14 to 16 October.Huma...
Detective Branch of Police (DB), arrested three alleged arms peddlers with three nine MM pistols, two one shooter guns, five round of ammunitions, eight magazines and various weaponry tools from New Bismillah Engineering Workshop in the district town Friday night. DB police sources said t...
Over 90 percent of animals, birds and reptiles, deer of Shahid AHM Kamruzzaman Zoo ( Rajshahi Central Zoo) in Rajshahi have turned senile and nearing the age of natural death. Due to lack of initiative to collect and pen new, tender aged zoo-exhibits, visitors are losing interest to visit the zoo. C...
The Ganges Dolphin or Shushuk (Platanista gangetica ) is one of the critically endangered aquatic animals of Bangladesh and one of the red listed mammals as mentioned by the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature). It is one of the four fresh-water dolphin species left in the world wit...
For increasing the production of fish in Chalan Beel region, four sanctuaries were dug at a cost of Tk 2,000,000 (two million) several years ago but due to lack of care of protecting those and indiscriminate catching of fishes from there, those sanctuaries are failing in fulfilling their purpo...
Self-educated, winner of the President's medal for extraordinary contribution in the Agriculture sector, farmer Nur Mohammad of Gollapara village under Tanore upazila of Rajshahi district has now invented a new-variety of paddy which is longer than Zira Shail paddy in size.It is learnt, Nu...
The Ceramic (China Clay) project under Patnitola Upazila under Naogaon district is slumbering for decades due to negligence of the authorities concerned. According to sources, a very promising project of mining of China clay remained tapped under files for more than 50-year after liberation of ...
The crisis of drinking water has turned severe at Mundumala Municipality and surrounding areas of Tanore upazila of Rajshahi district. Somewhere under the municipality the existence of water is even not being traced under 1,100 feet deep under the earth. As a result, residents of the areas are facin...
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