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JCD leader dies at DMCH after being stabbed in Rangpur

A local leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Wednesday night, eight days after he was stabbed allegedly by a relative over a land-related dispute in Kaunia upazila of Rangpur...

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5 sent to jail over attack on Hindu homes

A Rangpur court sent five men to jail on Wednesday in connection with attacks on the homes of Hindu families in the district’s Gangachara upazila on July 26–27...

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Reconstructing killing through counter-forensics

ABU Sayed, a student activist at Begum Rokeya University in Rangpur, was killed on July 16, 2024. The death became a flashpoint in what would grow into the July uprising. While the Awami League government, toppled in the uprising,  then claimed that Sayed had been killed with bricks and firearms by other protesters, video footage shared widely on social media...

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Power crisis hits north

Multiple problems hit the publicly-owned 525MW coal-based Barapukuria Thermal Power Plant, accounting for almost half of the installed power generation capacity to meet the electricity demand in Rangpur zone, with its production dropping below 50 MW on Tuesday...

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Abu Sayeed murder deliberate extrajudicial killing

The murder of Abu Sayeed, a student at Begum Rokeya University in Rangpur, during the 2024 mass uprising was a deliberate extrajudicial killing by the police, according to a counter-forensic investigation jointly conducted by Drik Picture Library and Forensic Architecture, a London-based research agency...

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Seven people killed in one month

A four-kilometre stretch of the Rangpur-Dhaka Highway, passing through the Mithapukur upazila, has turned into a deadly zone, claiming at least seven lives in the past month alone...

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3 teenagers drown in Rangpur

Three teenagers, including two madrassah students, drowned while bathing in two separate rivers in Rangpur on Sunday afternoon...

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Formal charges pressed against ex-BRU VC, several others in Abu Sayeed murder case

The prosecution of the International Crimes Tribunal on Monday submitted formal charges against 30 individuals, including former Begum Rokeya University vice-chancellor Hasibur Rashid, eight police personnel, and several ruling party student leaders, over the killing of university student Abu Sayeed during the July 2024 mass uprising in Rangpur.

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Hasina among 30 named in ICT probe

The Investigation Agency of the International Crimes Tribunal on Thursday submitted a probe report accusing 30 people, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, of crimes against humanity committed during the July 2024 mass uprising in Rangpur...

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Woman raped on moving train

A woman was allegedly raped by a temporary railway employee on a moving train in Dhaka Wednesday morning...

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Flash flood advisory for Rangpur as heavy rain forecasted

Low-lying areas along the River Teesta in the Rangpur division may encounter flash floods due to heavy to very heavy rainfall likely to occur over vast swathes of land expanding from northern Bangladesh to upstream places across the borders in India, Bhutan and Nepal...

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ACC sues ex-Rokeya Univ VCs Kalimullah, Nur-un-Nabi

The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday filed a case against five people, including former Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur vice-chancellors Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah and AKM Nur-un-Nabi, on charges of embezzling Tk 4 crore from a development project through corruption...

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JP demands arrest of attackers

Jatiya Party leaders on Friday demanded arrest of the attackers who allegedly vandalised the house of the party’s chairman Ghulam Muhammed Quader in his residence in Rangpur in his presence on Thursday night.

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5 killed in road accidents

At least five people, including a Secondary School Certificate examinee, were killed in road accidents in Rangpur, Dhaka and Satkhira on Tuesday...

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Krishi Bazar app launched for safe produce

The Krishi Bazar Ltd mobile app has been inaugurated in Rangpur city aiming at building a healthy nation by producing safe agricultural products, including vegetables, and delivering those to consumers at fair prices...

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Nor’wester sweeps across Rangpur

Acres of cropland including paddy, maize, and mango orchards have been affected by the nor’wester that swept through different upazilas in Rangpur on Saturday night...

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Rangpur businesses shut for half-day

The Business and trading community in Rangpur city on Wednesday observed a half-day strike, expressing solidarity with the oppressed people of Gaza...

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Students block highway in Sirajganj 

A group of students linked to the Students’ Against Discrimination blocked the Dhaka-Rajshahi-Rangpur highway, protesting at not being included in the newly formed Sirajganj district committee of the platform, in Sirajganj on Monday...