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.
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.
It’s painful for Tajul Islam to see what has happened to his beloved mango orchard in Rajshahi city’s Borobongram Namopara.
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.
In Kurigram, a district in northern Bangladesh, there’s a house with a collection of over 5,000 war artifacts.
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.
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.
Bangladesh Railway's West Zone and Rajshahi University take extraordinary measures so that 700 admission seekers do not miss their exams
Rajshahi Fruit Research Centre, a wing of Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), has added two new varieties to Bangladeshi fruits.
Before the January 16 municipal polls, he was blamed for inciting violence. Even his own party -- Awami League -- decided not to nominate him.
Rajshahi was freed on this day, two days after the country’s victory in its Liberation War.
War-time documents reveal Mojaheed’s outline for a ruthless Al-Badr that wouldn’t spare even ‘nearest relatives’
A young woman, sitting with a man, was smoking near Rajshahi’s Circuit House Road -- a public space -- on Sunday afternoon when a man appeared and started shouting at her, asking to leave immediately. Soon, some other men joined him in rebuking her for “smoking in a public place”.
Not an isolated incident, say women in Rajshahi
Giving away her hard-earned income to the destitute, Dil Afroze Khuki of Rajshahi chose a life of constant battles. In her 60s now, she has been a newspaper hawker in the northern city for 30 years.
Giving away her hard-earned income to the destitute, Dil Afroze Khuki of Rajshahi has chosen a life of constant battles.
Having already invested Tk 100 crore to establish an industrial estate in Rajshahi’s Godagari upazila in 2017, Pran is planning expansions there, subject to government assistance, including the supply of natural gas.
While malnutrition remains a major hurdle, milk that contains powerful nutrient values are less consumed, produced in low volume and often wasted for dearth of a fitting processing and distribution system in the country, official data says.
