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A cruel and unjustified recent eviction of slum dwellers has left some 2000 poor people living in the open sky in Rajshahi city’s GangparaThe evicted families are found to be living under open sky braving the bitter cold as mercury again dropped to minimum 9 degrees Celsius during the last wee...
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Onion cultivation in Rajshahi may be 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't ...
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The construction work of 'Bangabandhu Novo-theatre' in Rajshahi is going on in full swing the design of the Planetarium has not yet been finalised . it is learnt, already works of the foundation of Blocks of the Planetarium covering 39,800 square feet has been completed. N...
The Ganges Dolphin (Platanista gangetica) is one of the critically endangered animals of Bangladesh and one of the red-listed mammals in the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) record. It is one of the four freshwater dolphin species left in the world with no statistics of actual n...
An extremely rare and scarcely seen to visit Bangladeshi water-bodies, the Common Merganser or Goosander, a large duck of rivers and lakes in forested areas of Europe, northern and central Asia, and North America, was recently detected by bird-watchers in the river Padma near Rajshahi. As the ...
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Thousands of migratory birds have started to arrive in various water-bodies of Rajshahi University campus. According to sources, innumerous migratory birds were now seen flying and sitting on the branches of the trees beside the water bodies and swimming in water with clamourous sound all day long o...
Bee keeping is getting popular among the young men of Godagari upazila for its satisfactory profit against a small investment and labour.During this winter season when dried beels and char areas of Godagari upazila turned golden-yellow in colour with millions of mustard flowers, many young men...
Like that in Chattagram, selling of all sort of tobacco products including cigarettes, Bidi, Zarda and Gul has been banned in the shops adjacent to all educational institutions of Rajshahi city. Hamidul Haque, Deputy Commissioner of Rajshahi, recently took the initiative to impose a ban in sell...
Last minute's hectic lobbying and groupings are continuing among AL leaders in Rajshahi centering the district council of the party being held today (Sunday). Rajshahi city and adjacent areas have been decorated in colourful banners, festoons and gates on the occasion of the ensuing council.&nbs...
The 5th founding anniversary of Bangladesh Bio-diversity Conservation Federation was observed with colourful programmes at Singra Municipality under Natore district on Friday. Environmentalists from 117 environmental organisations participated the programmes. In observance of the programme, a c...
People of Badalgacchi upazila under Naogaon district have demanded to establish a university at the historical site of Paharpur at Badalgacchi upazila.Local people of Badalgacchi said that Paharpur Buddha Vihara or Sompura Vihara, established in the 7th and the 8th centuries by the Pala Emperors, is...
Baranoi river, a tributary emerged from the Beel Kumari at Tanore, was once a turbulent river connecting the famous Chalanbeel is now nearly dying due to indiscriminate dumping of wastes in the river.The water of the river Baranoi has turned poisonous and brackish due to disposal of the toxic ...
Political leaders, civil society members and non-governmental organisations, in separate statements, have demanded withdrawal of the National Board of Revenue decision to honour Md Kaus Mian, a harmful Zarda and tobacco product producer, as the Highest Taxpayer. They also protested the involvement o...
Murder is his addiction, he has killed at least 10 persons, nine women and one child cold-blooded during last six-year. He also raped five of the victims before killing them.This self-confessed, ferocious killer has been identified as Babu Sheikh alias Anowar Hossain alias Anar alias Kalu (55) son o...
Railway Minister Nurul Islam Sujon has said that the construction works of the Bangabandhu Railway Bridge on the river Jamuna is likely to be inaugurated on March 17, at the birth centenary of Father of Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.While talking to the journalists after visiting the prop...
For hundreds of years, female farm labourers of Barind region are being discriminated over payment of their wages. Still, a huge number of female farm labourers remained unemployed during the off-season of farming. Though underpaid and discriminated, those female farm-labourers used to work more wit...
Farmers, agriculturists and field-researchers in Rajshahi have emphasised using balanced Liquid Fertiliser to reap the highest crop production at a low cost.They opined, locally produced balanced liquid fertiliser contains 16 nourishing ingredients of growth of plant and is non-hazardous for nature ...
The critically endangered fish-eating crocodile commonly known as Ghorial (Gavialis gangeticus) which once used to live mainly in the river Padma near Godagari upazila of Rajshahi has started to lay eggs in captivity at Rajshahi Zoo. With the successful hatching of the eggs, the ghorial population i...
Due to accumulation of silt, emergence of shoals and encroachment, once a mighty river Boral which flowed through labyrinthine ways of Rajshahi, Pabna and Natore districts, is now only a mute reminder of a dry, infertile, barren canal. The drying up of Boral is also affecting badly the riverine...
It sounds unbelievable. A newspaper hawker travels 120 kilometres of arduous, troubled way of remote villages on a bicycle daily- almost 360 days a year- to reach newspapers to the rural customers! Moreover, unlike a traditional hawker, he is a teacher-turned-hawker.He is Mr. Moniruzzaman Maste...
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