Prothom Alo office in Rajshahi comes under attack
A group of people on Monday attacked the Prothom Alo office in Rajshahi city and vandalised and set fire to its signboard...
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Prof Masud appointed new RU registrar
Professor Iftikharul Alam Masud of the Arabic department has been made the new registrar (in-charge) of Rajshahi University...
Farmers block highway in Bogura for potato seeds
Farmers on Thursday blocked the Dhaka-Rajshahi highway at Sherpur upazila in Bogura demanding potato seeds at a fair price...
BNP leader stabbed in Rajshahi city
A group of youths hacked a leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party in Rajshahi city on Thursday...
Demo held protesting at irregularities at passport office
People from all walks of life on Wednesday staged a demonstration in Rajshahi city protesting at irregularities and mismanagement at the divisional passport office...
RCC dismisses 159 employees
Rajshahi City Corporation dismissed its 159 master-roll employees and served show cause notices on 38 other officials and employees on various allegations including irregularities, corruption and taking a stand against student-led anti-discrimination movement...
Lack of potato seed, high price worry northern farmers
With the beginning of potato cultivation season, farmers of the sixteen districts under Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions are worried about shortage of quality seeds and its high price...
RWASA should, rather, address non-revenue water loss
THE Rajshahi Water Supply and Sewerage Authority tripled the water tariff in February 2022 to cover losses in the production cost. The supply water agency spends Tk 8.90 on the production of a unit of water, or 1,000 litres, and sells it to household consumers for Tk 6.81 a unit and to commercial consumers for Tk 1.366 a unit over a supply network spanning...
Rajshahi WASA loses Tk 41cr in 5 years for system loss
Rajshahi Water Supply and Sewerage Authority incurred a loss of Tk 41 crore in the past five years due to non-revenue water loss, according to the audit report of the state-run organisation...
10 people injured in clash over football match on RU campus
At least 10 people have been injured after students of law department and marketing department of Rajshahi University clashed over sledging during an interdepartmental football match.The violence occurred on Monday evening, authorities said...
Legal notice served seeking cancellation of ward quota
A legal notice was served on the authorities concerned, seeking cancellation of the ward quota for the children and grand-children of the university teachers, officials and employees for the...
RU officials demand action against student movement leader
Four associations of Rajshahi University鈥檚 officers and employees on Sunday urged the university authorities to take action against Salahuddin Ammar, a leader of the...
Family wants justice over beating JL activist to death
Family members and relatives of a Jubo League activist who was beaten to death on October 26 urged the government to ensure justice for the murder...
Workshop on Iodised Salt Act held in Rajshahi
With the support of Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, a development partner, the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation organised a workshop on 鈥業odised Salt Act-2021鈥� at the conference room of BSCIC Rajshahi regional office on Sunday...
Students postpone hunger strike at RU
Rajshahi University students who went on a hunger strike on Thursday evening demanding cancellation of the quota facility for the children and grand-children of the university teachers, officials...
RU keeps ward quota, cancels quota for FF grandchildren
The Rajshahi University authorities on Thursday decided to cancel the quota facility for freedom fighters鈥� grandchildren, but to retain the five per cent quota for their children for admission to undergraduate courses under the 2024-25 academic session...
Highway blocked demanding advisers from northern region 聽
Hundreds of students from different educational institutes including Begum Rokeya University on Wednesday blocked Rangpur-Dhaka highway demanding the inclusion of advisers in the interim government from Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions...
ACC prosecutes聽3 suspended Grameen Bank officials
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday filed three cases against three suspended officials of Grameen Bank on the charge of embezzling customer鈥檚 money...
ACC presses charges against Rajshahi AL leader over accumulating illegal wealth
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Tuesday submitted a charge sheet against an Awami League leader in a case filed on charges of accumulating illegal wealth worth Tk聽1.36 crore...
58 more trainee sub-inspectors discharged from police academy
Fifty-eight more trainee sub-inspectors were discharged from the Bangladesh Police Academy at Sardah in Rajshahi on Monday allegedly for breaching discipline.
Bus service between Rajshahi-C鈥檔awabganj resumed
The inter-district bus communications between Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj was resumed on Wednesday, two days after the transport workers had enforced an indefinite strike on Monday morning over a trivial matter...
Eight districts get new deputy commissioners
The interim government has appointed new deputy commissioners in Joypurhat, Rajshahi, Rajbari, Sirajganj, Kushtia, Dinajpur, Shariatpur, and Natore districts...
Commuters suffer as bus strike continues on C鈥檔awabganj-Rajshahi route
Bus services on the Chapainawabganj-Rajshahi route remain suspended for the second consecutive day, following the alleged assault of a bus staff of Chapainawabganj...
Rajshahi-C鈥檔awabganj bus service suspended for 2nd day
People continued to suffer immensely as the inter-district bus communications between Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj remained suspended for the second consecutive day on Tuesday...
2 minor girls among 4 killed in road accidents
At least four people were killed in road accidents in Gazipur, Rajshahi, Narail and Jhenaidah on Tuesday.
ACC sues former Bagha mayor for embezzlement
The Anti-Corruption Commission filed two separate cases against the former mayor of Rajshahi鈥檚 Bagha municipality on charges of embezzling public money...
Rajshahi-C鈥檔awabganj bus service suspended
The inter-district bus communication between Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj was suspended on Monday after Rajshahi transport workers enforced a strike in the morning protesting against the attack on their fellows...
Professor Razzak made RUET VC
Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology electrical and electronic engineering department professor SM Abdur Razzak was appointed as vice-chancellor of the university on Sunday...
BCL activist beaten, handed over to police
An activist of recently banned Bangladesh Chhatra League, student wing of the Awami League, was beaten and handed over to police when she came to attend her examination at Rajshahi Government Women鈥檚 College on Sunday...
JL activist beaten to death in Rajshahi
An activist of Juba League, youth body of the Awami League, was allegedly beaten and stabbed to death in the Rajshahi city on Saturday night...