National,Front Page
As the days of the 12th parliamentary elections are nearing, various political party leaders have started lobbying to bag nominations from their respective party leaders as candidates to contest the elections.At the same time, speculations and imaginations are also gearing up among the workers and t...
City
Sultana Ahmed Sagorika, a member of transgender community, has been elected the Councillor for the Reserved Women seat of Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) by defeating five of the contestants. Sagorika contested for the post of Reserved Zone-7 comprised of wards-19, 20 and 21 in the elections of...
Country
Even at the middle of monsoon when the fields, roads and the surroundings are usually infested with heavy rainfall, people of Rajshahi region are being deprived of even a drop of rain for more than last one fortnight. Very hot weather with nearly 40 degree Celsius of day temperature has been prevail...
The 'Bir Nibash' (Homes for the heroes) allocated for the distressed and insolvent Freedom fighters are under the grip of influential and the solvent people, who are not even freedom fighters, at Durgapur upazila of Rajshahi district. It is learnt that the project for the 'Construct...
300 metric tons of mangoes from 220 farmers of Bagha upazila of Rajshahi are likely to be exported to various European and the Middle eastern countries this year. The Department of Agriculture earlier signed a deal with the concerned farmers to produce export quality mangoes in their orchards. ...
Rajshahi Medical University, the second Medical University of the country, is going to start its academic, research and medicare activities in the full fledges soon. A project amounting Tk 3,100 crore for the development of RMU is likely to be placed at the ECNEC soon. In addition to academic a...
National,Back Page
For over a century, dozens of landless families have been living by building shanties inside mango groves of Babupara Mahanandakhali village under Paba upazila. Locally, those shanties are termed as 'Tong Ghar'. Without having any basic facility for living, those homeless families someh...
Most of the high-rise buildings of Rajshahi city are being constructed without following any safety rule for the construction workers. As a result, there are frequent accidents and many construction workers are dying by falling from the under construction roof or high-walls of the buildings. For the...
It sound weird but it is true and a very fruitful step. Like human babies, 'Birth Registrations' of newly born calves are needed to be registered with the frontier outposts of Border Guard Bangladesh. Such a system of birth registration for a calf (both for cow and buffalo babies) has been i...
Nine accused persons were awarded the death sentence, and 22 sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment in the sensational BCL leader Shahen Shah murder case of Rajshahi. Rajshahi Metropolitan and Sessions Judge OHM Elias Hossain pronounced the judgement in a crowded court at 12-30 pm on Thursday....
Water supplied through pipelines in the houses, offices, hotels and restaurants of Rajshahi city through the Water and Sewerage Authority of Rajshahi is unsafe for human consumption. The water contains harmful Total Coliform bacteria and the human Faecal Coliform bacteria.It is learnt, recently the ...
People locally known as ‘Dhunkar’ belong to a professional group of people who earn their living by making quilts, pillows and mattresses with cotton and sheets of clothes.Nearly fifty Dhunkar have arrived in Rajshahi from the village Tokna under Monakosha union of Shibganj upazila of Ch...
Country,National
Demand for ‘thrasher machines’ produced in Natore and its surrounding upazilas has been increasing among the farmers of the country. After meeting local demands, the thrasher machines produced in Natore of greater Rajshahi are now being sold in other districts as well. These ...
All Section,City
Jungle Owlet- a tiny species of owl, supposed to be non-existent in Bangladesh, has been detected at the campus of RU by a group of bird-lovers of Rajshahi. It is learnt, recently Professor Dr Saleh Reza of Zoology Department of RU alongwith bird-lover Hasnat Rony heard the call of a new variety of ...
Papiya Akhter (12) was just promoted to class VI when her school was closed for Coronavirus pandemic. During the closure of the school, Papiya's father Rezaul Karim settled a marriage for her and now Papiya is the mother of a one-year aged male baby. Her school is now open but child Papiya ...
S peakers at a daylong workshop on Combating Illegal Wildlife Trade organised by Bangladesh Forest Department and Wildlife Conservation Society at Parjatan Motel on Saturday have emphasised on highlighting the information about illegal wildlife trade and trafficking in the media so that the concerne...
Traditionally, foxes and jackals are believed to be cunning animals. Due to intensive ravaging of forests, bushes and the rugged condition of soil, almost all the habitats of foxes and jackals in the country have been destroyed entirely. Moreover, indiscriminate hunting and killing of the anima...
A voluntary Tree lovers' group in Rajshahi is engaged in planting saplings of various trees in different places of the city to retain environmental balance and to save the biodiversity. Founder of the Tree lovers’ Group Akhter Hossain inaugurated its environment-friendly tree plantati...
Already the Monsoon or Rainy Season is nearing an end and during this period of time, the vast Chalan Beel region of the country is usually filled up with water. The fishermen of hundreds of villages also engaged in catching fishes with nets and boats braving the turbulent current but, the wate...
The seasonal raw-hide traders (the persons who are engaged in purchasing and selling of raw-hide after every Eid-ul-Azha) in Rajshahi are incurring a huge loss even after purchasing the hides of sacrificial animals at a lower price even below the fixed government-rate. They claimed, if the hoar...
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