RU Correspondent
Agitating students of Rajshahi University Folklore Department on Thursday staged demonstration at the department demanding return of one of their class rooms allocated to the history department students. They kept the department chairman and other officials under key and lock for six hours to press home their demand. Departments sources said, the then university authority allocated one of the folklore department’s class rooms at Sayed Ismail Hossain Siraji Bhaban for the history department in 2008. On Wednesday, the students of history and folklore departments locked into a scuffle over assaulting each other, and later the folklore department students declared class boycotted programme for indefinite period demanding return of their room. Witnesses said, the department students locked the room history department room no. 121 and staged a sit-in-programme in front of the room. They later locked all the offices of the department including keeping the department chair under key and lock as the department chair urged them to open the history department room. Agitating students alleged that they had long been facing great difficulty to carry out their academic activities in their rooms’ no. 120 and 122 as in the absence of teachers the history department’s students often create anarchy in their room no. 121, next to their (folklore) class rooms. The history department’s students also threatened if they were protested, agitating also alleged. Contacted, the history department students alleged that the folklore department students intentionally involved in altercation with them to grab their room.
Organic vegetables bring luck for Gaibandha farmers
Gaibandh:Chemical-free way of farming brought good fortunes for vegetable growers in Fulchhari’s Bhasharpara village in the district. Take Belal Miah as one glaring example of how going green becomes a new trend in vegetable farming. On the shores of the river Brahmaputra, Belal Miah successfully managed cultivating vegetable varieties – cucumber, bitter gourd, red spinach, and pumpkin without the use of any chemical fertilizers. He got good harvest only applying organic manures. Others have emulated what he tried to do and have experienced similar success, bringing financial stability to their families. “I’m making good profit by cultivating vegetables free of chemical fertilisers. But if we get support from the agriculture department, farmers like us will be able to produce more,” said Belal. He added that government needs to keep rising costs of irrigation and agro-inputs under control. Ruhul Amin, deputy director of the district’s agriculture extension, told UNB that they would take measures to provide assistance to growers who practices organic way of vegetable farming, reports UNB
Rangpur mosque khadem remanded over madrasah student killing
RANGPUR: A court here on Sunday placed the khadem (caretaker) of a mosque on a five-day remand in a case filed over the murder of a madrasah student. Judge of Kotwali cognisance court Tarik Hasan passed the order after sub- inspector Zabed Ali of Kotwali Police Station, also the investigation officer of the case, produced Nazmul Haque, khadem of Bhagibalapara Central Mosque, before the court seeking a 10-day remand. Police recovered the beheaded body of Tanvir Abdullah Talha, 14, a student of Rahmania Nurani Hafizia Madrasah and son of an Army sergeant working at Rangpur cantonment, from the first floor of Bhagibalapara Central Mosque adjacent to the madrasah on Thursday afternoon, a day after he went missing. Following a murder case filed by victim’s uncle Zahidul Islam, police arrested Khadem Nazmul Haque on Friday. They also detained headmaster of the madrasah Hafez Mehedi Hasan, assistant teacher Hafez Imran Hossain, Moyazzem of the mosque Taskirul Islam and madrasah students Azahar, Rezaul Karim, Manik, Arman and Ferdous for interrogation, reports UNB.
