RAJSHAHI: Rajshahi Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (RWASA) has been implementing a project by spending around Tk 34 crore aims at bringing a qualitative change in the city's water supply system, reports BSS. According to officials concerned, implementation works of the two and half-year project…

A petrol team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-1 has seized 480 bottle foreign bears from a private car at city's Gulshan area yesterday. The RAB-1 team led by Major Ishtiaq Ahmed detained a private car and recovered 480 canes foreign bears in five paper made cartoons inside the car after searching…

Customs officials arrested a Dubai returned passenger along with four gold bars, weight of around half a kilogram, worth about Tka 24 lakh from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital early yesterday, reports BSS. "Acting on a tip-off we arrested one Awlad Hossain, of Gazipur, from…

Although winter still lingers at the evergreen Jahangirnagar University (JU) campus, avian guests have left its water bodies earlier than usual, due to…

At least 416 people, including 54 women and 55 children, were killed in 350 road accidents reported across the country in January up almost a full quarter over the reported number of fatalities in December, 2016. Some 1012 individuals escaped with injuries from the January accidents. The figures were…

RAJSHAHI: Speakers at a discussion yesterday urged industrial labourers to learn about their rights and unite in demand of their rights, reports BSS. They also stressed the need for creating wider awareness on occupational safety and health among the workers and employers of the industrial sector in…

RAJSHAHI: A three-day flower fair began on Zila Parishad premises in the city yesterday. Bailkali Sangha, Rajshahi organised such an exceptional three-day floral show where hundreds of varieties of flowers were exhibited in 16 stalls. Shafiqul Islam, BPM, Commissioner of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police…

2 shops fined Tk 7,000 in Rajshahi Two food shops were fined Tk 7,000 on charges of selling unhygienic and substandard foods in the district yesterday. A team of Department of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) conducted the raid in Kakrabari area and found Hazi Stores and Anwar Store guilty.…

Reunion of JU geography dept Mar 3 SAVAR: The ‘3rd Reunion Programme’ of Geography and Environment department of Jahangirnagar University (JU) will be held on March 3.  Mokbul Huda Choudhury, the convener of the Publicity committee of this reunion programme, disclosed it through a press…