Rajshahi, Bangladesh News

The police have completed investigations of the deaths of a very few of the 17 students reported to have been killed in violent incidents on university campuses in the past three years.

Crowds in cinemas in Rajshahi have thinned remarkably, leading to the closure of most of the cinemas in the district including those in the city.

Sheikh Shaharirar Zaman bdnews24.com Senior Correspondent Dhaka, Feb 9 -Bangladesh government has protested against the Indian Border Security Force chief's remarks that firing along the border can never be fully stopped.

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Monday announced a 'citizens' inquiry committee' to probe the killing of five people in Chandpur, Lakshmipur and Rajshahi during the opposition's 'mass processions' on January 29 and 30.

The Bangladesh Computer Samity Digital Expo 2012 in the Rajshahi city drew a good crowd on the weekend - Friday and Saturday.

Participants at a meeting in Rajshahi city urged the government to fix quota for hermaphrodite people in education and job sectors.

THE Awami League-Jatiya Party government seems to be fast metamorphosing into an autocratic regime, if, that is, it has not turned into one already, so suggests its employment of the police, of course, along with the musclemen of the ruling alliance, apparently to disrupt countrywide processions by the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party ... (more)

An activist of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party died and several others were injured Monday when party activists clashed with police, a media report said.

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party's Rajshahi metropolitan unit has called a half-day strike in the city on Tuesday after one person was killed in a clash between Jamaat-e-Islami activists and police on Monday.

They made the call at a human chain and a seminar jointly organised by Parisbesh Bachao Andolan and Shathi Sangathan at Chandpur Bazar in Natore, said a release received in Dhaka.

By Mizan Rahman Dhaka Bangladesh Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has asked foreign and home affairs ministries to take up the issue of the atrocities of Indias Border Security Force on the frontiers with the Indian side.

The authorities said the severe yarn crisis had forced at least 60 out of the 72 private silk factories in the region to close down in 12 years.

Inter-cropping with sugarcane has been found as more beneficial to the farmers as it can boost total crop production per unit area along with ensuring sustainable sugarcane cultivation with higher economic benefit compared to other crops.

National minority women in the Rajshahi city on Saturday demanded end to repression against them and sought government initiatives to ensure human rights.

The horror of December 9, 2011 still haunts Habibur Rahman, the 22-year-old cattlerunner at Satera Rashiya of Shibganj in Chapainawabganj, who was brutally tortured by India's Border Security Force at Mairashi camp in Murshidabad after being stripped for failing to pay them Tk 2,000 in 'bribe.' 'It seemed to me that it was the end of my life.

The identity of the Bangladeshi youth severely tortured by Border Security Force personnel at the border has been established.

Media should play a courageous role in protecting human rights in the country and there should be a specific 'code of conduct' for monitoring media, observed a group of trainers while addressing a workshop in Rajshahi on Sunday.

Dense fog suspended ferry service on Paturia-Daulatdia and Mawa-Keorakandi routes and steamer service on different routes for hours till Friday morning causing serious difficulties to travelers.