Will Altadighi come back to life?
According to folklore, King Vishwanath dug a lake to address the people’s drinking water problem, prompted by his queen’s dream. The queen’s stipulation was that the lake should be dug as far as she could walk barefoot. When the queen continued walking over a mile, the king’s ministers intervened fearing a near impossible lake digging project. They stopped her by sprinkling alta (red dye) on her feet, claiming she was bleeding.
7 May 2024, 18:00 PM
Farmers enjoy uninterrupted power
A sigh of relief has swept over Boro paddy farmers in Rajshahi, who were deeply concerned about irrigation due to electricity shortage just two weeks back.
19 April 2024, 18:00 PM
Mangoes and litchis taking a hit from the heat
It’s painful for Tajul Islam to see what has happened to his beloved mango orchard in Rajshahi city’s Borobongram Namopara.
19 April 2024, 18:00 PM
Onion farmers in the north stare at losses
Even after a bumper harvest of onions this season in four districts of Rajshahi, a sharp decline in the price of the vegetable has left farmers struggling.
5 April 2024, 18:00 PM
The north remembers
In Kurigram, a district in northern Bangladesh, there’s a house with a collection of over 5,000 war artifacts.
23 March 2024, 18:00 PM
'Coaching showed me a path to survive’
Michael Collins, also known as AHM Taswar, was the first coach from the Rajshahi Tennis Complex to take up a coaching job abroad, pioneering a path that many have followed since. After trying to make it as a tennis player from 1992 to 2004 and representing Bangladesh in the Davis Cup thrice, he turned to coaching and has worked in China, Japan and the USA since. While on vacation in Rajshahi recently, he spoke with The Daily Star’s Anwar Ali where he shared the story of how his dream shifted from being a tennis star to becoming a tennis coach.
9 March 2024, 01:30 AM
Rajshahi’s tennis dream finds new avenue on coaching court
Back in the 80s, the Boalia Tennis Club in Rajshahi, a humble facility with just one hard court, was a place where the locals of the region got a taste of a game that was mostly accessible to the elites of the society.
9 March 2024, 01:00 AM
When bending the rules deserves praise
Bangladesh Railway's West Zone and Rajshahi University take extraordinary measures so that 700 admission seekers do not miss their exams
7 March 2024, 13:48 PM
Desperation over accommodation
As feared, many admission seekers of Rajshahi University (RU) and their guardians were desperate to find a place to stay yesterday, and the situation was exacerbated by unusually high accommodation rents in the city.
4 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Where will all the students stay?
Every year, during Rajshahi University’s (RU) admission tests, the institute’s halls welcome thousands of admission seekers from different corners of the country. According to teachers, student leaders and guardians, the dormitories usually house around 50 percent of admission seekers, particularly students from non-affluent families and those from far flung areas.
28 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Road expansion project in Rajshahi that never ends
Even after eight years, Rajshahi Development Authority (RDA) could not complete a 5km road expansion and construction work of the city’s first ever flyover.
26 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Development the priority, not nature!
To make space for new administrative and academic buildings, authorities of Rajshahi University of Engineering Technology (Ruet) have felled around 50 trees recently, most of which are over half a century old.
15 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Life-saving equipment lying unused
At a time when intensive care unit (ICU) support is so much in need, a state-of-the-art ambulance worth Tk 1.5 crore has just been lying idle at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) for over two years.
10 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Mango farmers’ hopes shattered
With over 50 per cent of mangoes yet to be harvested, the nationwide lockdown beginning yesterday has upended the normal marketing system, upsetting the already disappointed farmers of Rajshahi region.
1 July 2021, 18:00 PM
RMCH Covid unit overrun
When Khadiza Khatun took her Covid-infected grandmother to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital on Sunday night, she never imagined that she was going to experience such a shock.
29 June 2021, 18:00 PM
A mom’s ordeal with Covid positive infant
A one-and-a-half-month old girl has been infected with the coronavirus in a rare case of Covid-19 in an infant.
27 June 2021, 18:00 PM
‘So much air but not a bit for him’
Just four years ago, Papia Sultana donated a kidney to save her husband Aman Vardar.
24 June 2021, 18:00 PM
RMCH turns into a Covid hotspot
Faced with the challenge of treating coronavirus patients as well as general ones under the same roof, Rajshahi Medical College Hospital has become a Covid-19 hotspot.
18 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Boro Farming in Barind: Hope lost in debt woes
The yield was good, the weather was favourable for harvesting Boro paddy and the prices too were acceptable, if not fair, to farmers.
16 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Writing was on the wall
Most of the patients who started overwhelming the coronavirus unit of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital in the third week of May were from the frontier district of Chapainawabganj.
12 June 2021, 18:00 PM
‘Painful to watch patients gasp for air’
“They groan and cry out just to get some oxygen. Most of them can do nothing but wait for a patient to get better and be released from the hospital, freeing up a bed. Watching the patients gasping and struggling to breathe is painful. Unfortunately, we can do nothing but watch them suffer.”
10 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Cry for ICU beds at RMCH
On May 31, Niamat Ali (70) of Naogaon’s Niamatpur upazila, who was suffering from breathing complications, died while waiting for ventilator support at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital’s (RMCH) intensive care unit (ICU).
6 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Recommendation for Lockdown: Mango gets in the way in 7 districts
Despite the health directorate’s strong recommendations for strict lockdown, officials in seven districts of Rajshahi and Khulna divisions opposed its enforcement right now, saying it will deal a heavy blow to around Tk 3,000-crore mango trade in the regions.
30 May 2021, 18:00 PM
NBR seeks bank info on former RU VC
The National Board of Revenue has asked different banks to provide it with detailed financial information of former Rajshahi University vice-chancellor Prof Abdus Sobhan and four others of his family.
27 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Patients rush to Rajshahi as district hospitals struggling
With district-level hospitals unable to provide adequate facilities, Covid-19 patients have been rushing into Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) in the divisional headquarters.
26 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Misplaced priorities?
Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has taken up a Tk 850-crore project for constructing flyovers at five more locations in the city, but has skipped the city’s most traffic-congested area, Shaheb Bazar.
22 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Ensure budget support for farm industry in north
The national budget for fiscal 2021-22 should include measures that will help sustain the rich agriculture industry in the country’s northern districts, according to various economists and businesspeople in the region.
22 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Reckless recruitment racks up RU budget
In the last 10 years, Rajshahi University’s annual expenditures has risen by Tk 278.67 crore.
20 May 2021, 18:00 PM