Rajshahi, Bangladesh News

Bangladesh is the most crowded place on Earth and will become even more impossibly packed in the next 30 years.

Law enforcers yesterday transferred three organisers of "Islam and Muslim", an offshoot of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh , to Rajshahi from Dhaka and produced them before a court seeking a seven-day remand for each.

BSS, Rajshahi Speakers at a meeting here on Friday called for reopening the closed Rajshahi Silk Factory for creating employment opportunities along with revitalising the traditional silk sector.

Tajikistan News.Net Friday 3rd July, 2009 Abdur Rahim alias Shahadat who played a key role in strengthening the banned Islamist militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh in bordering districts of India's West Bengal state has been arrested, the police said.

Police have arrested four Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh men, including two top leaders of the newly formed group of JMB at an area in Gazipur Sadar.

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Young volunteers departing from Panchbaria village in Rajshahi after holding an awareness raising meeting with the locals against child marriage and violence against women.Photo: STAR Amena Khatun, back from Rajshahi Known as Lal Bahini to the villagers for their red T-shirt and cap, a group of young volunteers are working for prevention of early ...

RAJSHAHI: A group of activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Saturday assaulted the partya s office secretary Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed when he was addressing a discussion marking the party founder Ziaur Rahmana s death anniversary in Rajshahi city.

RAJSHAHI: The Rajshahi district unit of Bangladesh Nationalist Party has demanded immediate resignation of foreign minister Dipu Moni and water resources minister Ramesh Chandra Sen for their recent false statements of receiving the agreed share of the Ganges water through Farakka barrage in India.

BSS, Rajshahi Mayor of Rajshahi City Corporation AHM Khairuzzaman Liton said a milestone has been introduced through connecting RCC with the information technology that advanced a footstep towards building Digital Bangladesh.

Bangladesh is a highly patriarchal society and gender discrimination is present at all community levels.

Militant violence, political turbulence and periods of authoritarian rule have plagued Bangladesh over the years and are cited by analysts as a negative factor for would-be investors and foreign aid agencies.

The closing ceremony of "Mango, Silk & Gomvira Utshov-2009" in Rajshahi was held on Sunday at the Green Plaza, Rajshahi City Corporation.

In a sensational revelation, a member of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh has said the militant group took part in the Kansat movement in April 2006 because they felt betrayed by the then BNP-led coalition government.

At least ten people including some teachers of Rajshahi New Govt Degree College were injured after some activists of Bangladesh Chhatra Moitri allegedly attacked them to press for admission quota for the party students.

BSS, Rajshahi Speakers at a press conference here on Sunday called for saving the mighty Padma from degradation through ensuring its due water-share for the sake of protecting the vast tract of barind area.

Another jawan of Bangladesh Rifles of 46 rifles battalion died of heart failure at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital yesterday.

DHAKA: Ethnic minority people took to the streets in Porsha of the northern Naogaon district Sunday in protest at the arson attack on a Santal settlement by henchmen of land grabbers in a bid to evict them from their land.

BSS, Rajshahi The Barind Multipurpose Development Authorities have been implementing various need-based projects to improve the socio-economic conditions and protect the environment in the vast Barind area in northern Bangladesh.

"Britain provided all possible assistance for Bangladesh's independence in 1971," Sayeedur Rahman Khan, who joined his new office yesterday, told bdnews24.com in an interview.