Started early Eid shopping despite higher prices of Eid items, including clothes, much ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr festivity to avoid abnormal rush at the last moment in the city markets.According to the market sources and local observers, Eid shopping in all markets, shopping malls, complexes and makeshift wayside markets marks huge sales amid tight security measures in the divisional city. Hundreds of men, women, housewives, students, girls, boys, youths and adolescents have been buying Eid items on their own choices...
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Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) announced annual budget of Tk 500.14 crore for the fiscal 2014-2015 without increasing the existing taxation rates for the city dwellers on Wednesday. Rangpur City Corporation (RCC), Mayor Alhaj Sharfuddin Ahmed Jhantu announced the budget at a function arranged at ASOD Training Centre conference room in the city in the presence of RCC councilors, officials, local elites and journalists. Announcing the budget the RCC Mayor said “It is a development-oriented one aiming at providing better civic...
Sale of Piranha fish is going on rampantly at different markets in Rangpur district. Sources said, in 2008 the government imposed a ban on cultivation and selling of piranha, a tropical American river fish which is hostile to animals as the fish eats live animals. But some dishonest people are cultivating the fish in their water bodies and also marketing it with the assistance of some fish traders defying the ban.Presently piranha is being sold ceaselessly at different markets of...
Farmers in different upazilas under Rangpur district are happy as they are making good profit through cultivation of Okra (lady’s finger) on their lands during the current season. Disgruntled over low price of paddy, jute and other crops many farmers of the region became interested in the cultivation of vegetable this year and its cultivation proved more lucrative than the cultivation of other crops. Golap Hossain of Baniapara village under Taraganj Upazila in the district told The New Nation he...
Mango production is likely to suffer a setback in Rangpur division this year as immature mangoes are falling off trees due to a drought like situation which has been prevailing in the region for long. Expressing apprehension a number of growers said despite massive sprouting in the very beginning of the season, production of mango might fall this year due to scanty rainfall which caused massive dropping of growing mangoes. Sources said, buds are getting dry and feeble resulting massive...
A three-day long “Women and Development” Fair 2014 has begun here at Begum Rokeya University (BRUR) ground in Rangpur city on Tuesday morning. United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Begum Rokeya University have jointly organised the fair. State Minister for women and children affairs Meher Afroz Chumki formally inaugurated the fair as the chief guest. Presided over by VC of Rokeya University Dr. AKM Nur-un-Nabi among others Rangpur city corporation (RCC) Mayor Sharfuddin Ahmed Jhantu, USAID Mission Director...
Speakers at a view exchange meeting put emphasis on giving special importance to assist the ultra-poor people for expanding livestock sector in order to enhance their socio-economic uplift in rural areas of the region. BRAC organised the daylong meeting under its Challenging the Frontiers Poverty Reduction- Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR-TUP) Project at taragonj upozala livestock office on Tuesday. Presided over by Upozala livestock officer Dr. Mahafugar Rahman district livestock officer Rangpur Dr. Dulal Chandra Bhadra deputy addressed the meeting...
With the rise of water level, the erosion by the river Teesta has taken a devastating turn, devouring a large portion of the Teesta dyke at Soudpara Chilakhal area under Gangachara upazila in the district during the last few days. According to sources, water level of Teesta has risen alarmingly due to on rush of water from the upstream during last four days as result breaches developed at 500 feet portion of the embankment, creating panic among the people of...
As many as 61 candidates will vie for the posts of chairman, vice-chairman and woman vice-chairman in the elections to Rangpur Sadar, Gangachara, Kaunia and Pirgachha upazila parishads scheduled for May 19.Of them, 24 are contesting for chairman post, 21 for four vice-chairmen posts and 16 for woman vice-chairman posts in the upazilas, district election office sources said.In Rangpur Sadar upazila, six candidates are contesting for chairman, six for vice chairman and three for woman vice chairmen posts.Five people are...
Law enforcers arrested 20 Jamaat-Shibir men, including a union level ameer of Jamaat, raiding different areas of Sadar , Mithapukur , Taragonj upazilas of the district on Friday night.Sofikul Islam, officer-in-charge (OC) of kotualy Police Station, said police conducted drives in five Sadar and arrested 20 Jamaat-Shibir men including Sha Alam , 27 was a former Rukon of Rangpur district unit of Jamaat, ameer of Taragong union unit of Jamaat-e-Islami.Of the 20 arrestees– 12 are Jamaat activists while the rest...
Education, management and administrative works are being hindered at Govt. Primary Schools in Rangpur Division as a total of 693 posts of headmaster are lying vacant since long.Rangpur divisional primary education office sources said, there are 4,367 government primary schools in 58 upazilas under 8 districts in Rangpur division. Out of these schools, 693 are running without headmaster since long. Sources said that posts of headmaster are lying vacant in 141 out 701 government primary schools in Rangpur district, 129...
A day long workshop for journalist on the issue of Women’s Empowerment was held at R.D.R.S Rangpur today. The workshop is supported and organized by USAID and VOA in partnership with Radio Today Media Academy. It was actively participated in by 50 Journalists of Rangpur from both print and electronic media.Legendary journalist and advisor to the caretaker Govt Mr. Mahbubul Alam intiated the discussion and responded to concerns raised by the journalists providing insights from his own experiences at home...
