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RU honours, master’s exams begin Jan

The Rajshahi University authorities have decided to hold honours’ final year and master’s final exams from         January 2.Exams will be held offline with keeping the university dormitories closed. The decision came a meeting of the university’s academic counc...

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RU won’t join online admission test

The Rajshahi University authorities decided not to take online admission tests. The decision was taken in the 252th academic council held on Tuesday at the senate building of the university.Vice Chancellor of the university Prof M Abdus Sobhan presided over the meeting. University public relation of...

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2 RU students arrested on rape charges

Police arrested two students of Rajshahi University for allegedly raping an admission seeker. The arrestees were identified as Jahid Hasan Shovon of Public Administration department and Torun Kundo of Sociology department of the university.Police picked up both students from Shah Mukhdum Hall on Wed...

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Cancellation of 43 students’ admission demanded

The general students of Rajshahi University (RU) on Tuesday formed a human chain demanding cancellation of 43 students’ admission given an opportunity to those students to admit at the university after failing in the test of 2019-20 academic sessions.The students gathered in front of the unive...

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Laila relieved of RU student advisor position

Laila Arjuman Banu, a professor of Chemistry department of Rajshahi University, has been relieved from the post of student advisor. Prof MA Bari, acting registrar of the university confirmed the matter on Sunday through issuing an office order. In the office order, it has been said that Prof Laila w...

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‘Student bodies don’t want RUCSU polls’

“The existing organisations and its members wanted the election of Rajshahi University Central Students’ Union but their present demand is now converse. Many have said, there are not Rucsu election and senate sessions at RU.  We are always ready to hold the Rucsu polls but they have...

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Woman killed in Rajshahi road crush

An elderly woman was crushed under a bus on Rajshahi-Chapai Nawabganj highway at Railgate Bipass area of Godagari upazila on early Sunday. The identity of the deceased could not be known  immediately. Abdus Salam, Sub inspector of Godagari police station, said that the accident took place ...

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RU schoolteacher suspended for sexual harassment

Durul Huda, a teacher of Rajshahi University School and College, has been suspended for sexually harassing a female student in October last year. Professor Abul Hasan Chowdhury, director of Institute of Education and Research, confirmed the matter on Thursday.After issuing a suspension order from th...

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‘Sexual harassment prevention cell’ formed at RU

Prof Rezina Laz of Zoology department and Prof Rukshana Begum of Accounting and Information systems department have been made as president and general secretary of Rajshahi University sexual harassment prevention cell respectively.RU vice chancellor professor M Abdus Sobahn announced their respectiv...

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College student commits suicide in Rajshahi

A college student on Wednesday reportedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a mango tree at Bagha upazila in Rajshahi. The deceased was identified as Tanvir Ahmed, 22, a student of Shah Doula Government Degree College and son of Jafor Iqbal of Kaligram village under the upazila.Tanvir used t...

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RU Population Science department name won’t change

The Rajshahi University authority on Monday formed a meeting at the senate building of the university with the Population Science and Human Resource Development department students, who were forming movement demanding to get their department name changed to ‘Applied Statistics’.After hea...

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Seminar on heart disease prevention held at RU

A seminar on “Heart Disease Cure and Prevention” was held at Rajshahi University on Monday. RU vice chancellor professor M Abdus Sobhan inaugurated the two-day long seminar at the University’s Senate Bhaban in the morning as chief guest with chaired by Pharmacy department head prof...

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Seminar on heart disease prevention held at RU

A seminar on “Heart Disease Cure and Prevention” was held at Rajshahi University on Monday. RU vice chancellor professor M Abdus Sobhan inaugurated the two-day long seminar at the University’s Senate Bhaban in the morning as chief guest with chaired by Pharmacy department head prof...

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ERO provides edn aid to ethnic students

Equal Rights Organisation (ERO), a voluntary Organisation working to protect the rights of the ethnic minority and marginalised community’s people, distributed education materials among the community’s children.ERO provides the aid among hundred ethnic primary and high school students in...

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RU won’t join unified entry test system

The authorities of Rajshahi University on Monday have decided not to join the integrated admission test of public universities which is expected to begin from the academic session of 2020-21. The decision was taken at a meeting of academic council, said RU pro vice chancellor professor Ananda Kumar ...

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RU holds seminar on Tagore’s women thoughts

A seminar on ‘Rabindranath Tagore’s women thoughts’ was held at Rajshahi University on Monday. RU Institute of Bangladesh Studies organized the seminar at the conference room of the Institute around 11 am. RU IBS director professor Swarochish Sarker moderated the event while journa...

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26 gamblers arrested in Rajshahi

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a raid arrested 26 people while gambling at a place at Shiroil Bus Stand area in Rajshahi city early on Sunday.Those arrested were identified as Rafiqul Islam Babu, 46, Uzzal Hossain, 32, Selim Reza Bishu, 32, Shofiqul Islam, 42, Shentu Mandol, 23, Abu Hena...

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Two RU grocery shops fined

The Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection on Tuesday fined Tk 8,000 of two grocery shops of Rajshahi University for preserving and selling expired foods and drinks to the students. DNCRP conducted the drive on Tuesday morning in presence of the university proctors’ body.Hasan Al M...

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RU student remanded in rape case

A Rajshahi court placed a student of Rajshahi University on remand for two-days on Monday in a case allegedly of rape of a female student. Selim Reza, a judge of Rajshahi Metropolitan Magistrate Court, granted the  remand of Mahfuzur Rahman Sarad, a RU Economics department’s second year s...

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Lecture on use of visuals in citizen journalism held at RU

Shahidul Alam, an acclaimed photographer delivered a lecture on the usage of visuals in citizen journalism at Rajshahi University on Tuesday. RU Mass Communication and Journalism department arranged the programme in collaboration with Germany’s leading provider of international media training ...