Rajshahi

Teachers, students protest RU teacher’s murder

Students at Rajshahi University have been staging demonstration on the campus, protesting the murder of professor AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee. Miscreants kill Siddiquee, a professor of English department of the university, in Shalbagan area of the city.
23 April 2016, 06:27 AM

Double murder in Rajshahi hotel room

Police yesterday recovered the bodies of a male and a female university student from a hotel room in the city's Shaheb Bazar area.
22 April 2016, 18:00 PM

'Couple' found dead at Rajshahi hotel

A man and a woman are found dead at a hotel room in Rajshahi city, cops say.
22 April 2016, 09:04 AM

RMCH interns strike protesting ‘attack’ over dead patient

Intern doctors of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) observe a three-hour strike protesting alleged attack on them by the police and others.
15 April 2016, 12:56 PM

Nature Quest: The bird land

Rajshahi has an impressive bird-habitat quite unrivalled by any in other cities or towns. In the dry season, anyone can reach this delightful spot just by crossing the shallow Padma River quietly flowing along the outskirts of Rajshahi city. Locals call the place Majher Char, meaning the middle island. As the
10 March 2016, 18:00 PM

3 JMB suspects held with bombs in Rajshahi

Three alleged members of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh are detained with 23 bombs in Baghmara upazila of Rajshahi, says Rapid Action Battalion.
6 March 2016, 05:42 AM

2 kids tortured inhumanly

In yet another incident of cruelty against kids, two teen boys were tortured badly in Rajshahi over a flimsy claim that they may have stolen a mobile phone.
14 February 2016, 18:00 PM

15 Rajshahi BNP-Jamaat men jailed for life

A speedy trial tribunal of Rajshahi hands life term prison to 15 activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, Jamaat-e-Islami and the BNP over a violence case of December 2013 during a blockade sponsored by BNP-Jamaat.
2 February 2016, 15:14 PM

BCS preliminary test tomorrow, no watches allowed

The 36th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) preliminary examination will be held tomorrow. Aspirants have been asked not to carry watches, along with any other electronic devices, in the test venues set up through Dhaka, Chittagong, Rajshahi, Barisal, Khulna, Sylhet and Rangpur.
7 January 2016, 07:20 AM

4 dead in Dhaka, other areas after 6.7 quake

Three persons die in Dhaka, Rajshahi and Lalmonirhat after a 6.7 earthquake, epicentered in India’s Imphal, rocked Bangladesh.
4 January 2016, 05:01 AM

3 ATN News journos held in Rajshahi

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) men detain a journalist and two cameramen of ATN News for violating the electoral code at Puthia municipality in Rajshahi.
30 December 2015, 02:36 AM

Bomber still not identified

Three days have gone by since a suicide attack in an Ahmadiyya mosque in Sayedpur Chalkpara of Rajshahi but police still do not know who the bomber was.
27 December 2015, 18:00 PM

IS claims credit for Bagmara blast: SITE

IS claims credit for the suicide attack at an Ahmadiyya Muslim mosque in Rajshahi that left the attacker dead, says US-based SITE Intelligence Group.
26 December 2015, 15:28 PM

Bagmara blast linked to past attacks: Home minister

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan says the bomb attack on a mosque of Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Bagmara of Rajshahi’s is linked to all other terrorist attacks in the past and there is an international conspiracy at its source.
26 December 2015, 08:13 AM

Cylinder blasts at RCC function, 4 hurt

A gas cylinder explodes at the annual sports day programme of Rajshahi Cadet College (RCC) today injuring four people in Charghat upazila of the district.
26 December 2015, 06:28 AM

Autopsy verifies dead youth as bomber

As police sue two unknown assailants over the Bagmara Ahmadiyya mosque blast in Rajshahi, autopsy report confirms the dead youth as one of the attackers. None of the attackers have been identified yet and none held.
26 December 2015, 04:36 AM

‘Attacker’ killed in Rajshahi Ahmadiyya mosque blast

At least one person is killed and three others are injured in a bomb attack at a mosque of Ahmadiyya Muslim community during Juma prayer in Rajshahi.
25 December 2015, 09:19 AM

No 2nd time admission at RU too

Rajshahi University authorities decide to allow only freshly passed HSC students to appear in its admission tests for a single year from the 2016-17 academic session.
19 December 2015, 13:09 PM

4-vehicle pile-up in Rajshahi kills 7 (video)

At least seven passengers are killed and 30 injured in a four-vehicle pile-up after a head-on collision between two buses in Rajshahi city.
15 December 2015, 09:30 AM

Ruet BCL leader ‘kidnapped’ using Rab identity

A leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) at Rajshahi University of Engineering Technology (Ruet) is allegedly kidnapped from his home using identity of the elite force Rapid Action Battalion.
11 December 2015, 13:36 PM