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In observance of the 'World Bee Day', Paba Upazila Sobuj Samhati and the development organisation Barsic jointly organised a human chain at Borgachhi Bazar of Paba Upazila on Wednesday. In the human chain, the farmers demanded to stop using the banned insecticides and to enact a separat...
Rajshahi City Press Club and Bangladesh Sangbadik Sangstha, Rajshahi, jointly organised a discussion on Press Club premises on Monday in remembrance of 11 Bangla language-movement martyrs of Assam on May 19, 1961. On that day, 11 of Bangla Language movement protesters were killed in police gunf...
Two teenagers died when the motorbike on which they were moving in a high speed hit the road divider near the Meherchandi flyover under Motihar police station of Rajshahi Metropolitan area Saturday evening. Both the deceased were students of class X of local Kharkhari High School. The dea...
The income from freight trains of Bangladesh Railway, Paksey division, has decreased drastically in recent years. Specially, the income from this sector in 2024 was the lowest in the last four years. According to the Commercial Department of Paksey Railway Division, the income from the freight ...
Lawyers of Rajshahi formed a human chain and staged a demonstration in protest against the murder of Lawyer Saiful Islam Alif in Chittagong in front of the office of the Rajshahi Advocate Bar Association at 10:00am on Wednesday.Among others, the human chain was addressed, by the President and the Ge...
The income from goods trains of Bangladesh Railway, Paksey division, has decreased drastically during the recent years. Specially, in 2024, the income of rail was the lowest in the last four years. According to the Commercial Department of Paksey Railway Division, the income from the goods trai...
Several hundred people under the banner of 'Alem Ulama and Touhidi Janata, Rajshahi', attacked Prothom Alo office at Boalia Thana crossing in Rajshahi city on Monday and set fire to the signboard of the office.Earlier, they took out a procession from Rajshahi Shaheb Bazar Zero point of the c...
As the Winter approaches in the country's Northern region, hundreds of low-income groups were seen thronging at the footpaths' warm clothes make-shift markets of Rajshahi city. However, many people think the winter is being delayed this year. Though it is the third week of November, man...
Dr. Dewan Muhammad Humayun Kabir, Divisional Commissioner of Rajshahi and the President of Rajshahi Divisional Minority Ethnic Cultural Academy launched the keyboard for the mother language of the Paharia ethnic group at the auditorium of the academy on Saturday. After the launch, Divisional Co...
Zonayed Saki, Chief Co-ordinator of Gonosanghati Andolon claimed that the deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had attempted to establish the rule of BAKSAL 2.0 like that of her father.Zonayed Saki came up with the assertion while addressing a mass dialogue held at the Shaheb Bazar Boro Masjid premi...
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Two people, including an army member, were killed in a head-on-collision between a CNG-run autorickshaw and engine-run three-wheeler at Mohanpur upazila in Rajshahi.The deceased were identified as Md Palash, 22, son of Mamtajur Rahman and Abdul Kuddus, 40, son of Tota Hajji of Manda and Raninagar up...
Rajshahi University (RU) Vice Chancellor (VC) Prof Golam Sabbir Sattar resigned from his post on Thursday. 'VC Prof Golam Sabbir Sattar resigned from his post at 3:02pm,' said Mir Shahjahan Ali Zakir, secretary of the RU vice chancellor office. The vice chancellor stepped down from...
Presidium Member of Awami League and Mayor of Rajshahi City Corporation AHM Khairuzzaman Liton visited the injured Police member (CTSB) Saiful Islam at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) on Saturday afternoon. Saiful Islam was injured in the attack of the anti-quota movement protester rec...
The train services from Rajshahi resumed on a limited scale on Thursday after 12 days of unrest centring the anti-quota movement.In the morning, two trains -- Rajshahi-Chapainawabganj bound 'Local 563' and the Rajshahi-Khulna bound 'Mohananda Express – left Rajshahi rail station.&n...
The Mango Special Train has become very popular among the farmers and mango traders in Rajshahi. This special train service is under operation for the last five years. Several varieties of mango weighing 820kgs were sent to Dhaka from Arani Rail station under Bagha upazila by the Mango Special ...
Fishermen at a pond of Digha Naodapara village under Bagha Upazila caught three rare predator Sucker fishes on Saturday evening. Owner of the pond Jamir Uddin informed he released small fish fries of various local varieties of fish like Ruhi, Katla and Mrigel earlier. On Saturday evening the fi...
Rajshahi Division is on the brink of being entirely free from landless and homeless families. Sixty-six of its 68 upazilas have already achieved this status, with the remaining two set to be declared landless and homeless-free by June 10-11, according to Rajshahi Divisional Commissioner Dr. Dewan Mu...
The first mango consignment produced under 'Contract Farming' was exported to England and France from Bagha on Tuesday. A total of two metric tonnes of Khirsapat variety of mango has been exported under the initiative of the Square Industrial Group. Bagha Upazila Agriculture Office sour...
The prices of most of the local seasonal fruits such as mango, litchi, Java plum, jackfruit and banana are very high in the markets of Rajshahi. Many of the fruits are out of the purchasing capacity of the low and middle-income people in the district. Several people claimed that the prices of ...
Mango trading in various hats and markets of Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj has not started in full swing due to insufficient supply of quality mangoes. Now, at the first week of June, the low-quality Guti or seed mangoes are mainly being sold at various hats and markets. The good quality Goplabh...
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