Rajshahi

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Rajshahi

(räjshä`hē), formerly

Rampur Boalia

(räm`po͝or bōä`lēä), city (1991 pop. 318,000), W central Bangladesh, on the Ganges River. It is the administrative center for a district that produces practically all of the country's silk. In the town are oil-pressing plants, match factories, and sawmills. Rajshahi also houses the Varendra Research Museum, a silk institute, and a university (founded 1953) with eight affiliated colleges.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Rajshahi

a city in Bangladesh, on the Ganges River. Capital of Rajshahi Division. Railroad station. Population, 76,000 (1969). A river port, the city has small establishments of the food and condiment, leather, and silk-weaving industries and produces handicrafts. There is a university, founded in 1953.

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Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) installed Bangabandhu Corner in ground floor of its Library building here recently aims at projecting the life and works of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to the people in general, reports BSS.

Bangabandhu Corner installed at RUET

Summary: Dubai [UAE], Jan 5 (ANI): Bangladesh off-spinner Mehidy Hasan is set to lead Rajshahi Kings in the sixth edition of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) 2019.

BPL 2019: Mehidy Hasan to captain Rajshahi Kings

Hafeez and Sami will play for Rajshahi Kings and Irfan and Tanveer will represent Sylhet Sixers while all-rounder Yamin, Afridi and Malik will play for Comilla Victorians.

Pakistani cricketers depart to play in BPL 2019

Bangladesh has arrested and charged an Islamist militant, Maskawat Hasan Sakib, for the murder of Rajshahi University professor (http://www.ibtimes.com/who-rezaul-karim-siddique-bangladeshi-rajshahi-universitys-professor-hacked-death-2358464) Rezaul Karim Siddique .

Bangladesh Arrests Militant Over Professor's Killing

The Friday attack took place at Chokpara mosque of Ahmadiyya community, in Rajshahi district, some 256 km west of the capital city.

Attack on Bangladesh's Ahmadiyya mosque leaves 1 dead

DHAKA -- Tamim Iqbal has submitted a letter to the BPL governing council, asking their assistance to clear the rest of his payments from Duronto Rajshahi. So far he has been paid 50 percent of his total amount for BPL 2013, and the franchise owner last month said that Tamim would not be paid anymore because he left during the Twenty20 tournament without prior notice.

Tamim asks BPL governing council for help with his payments

Dubai: More than 5,000 patients were examined for visual impairment during a six-day eye camp organised by the non-profit organisation Noor Dubai Foundation last week in Natore district of Rajshahi division in Bangladesh.

5,000 patients with visual ailments screened at a camp organised by Noor Dubai Foundation in Natore

The new deaths were recorded in the capital and Rajshahi on Monday while the new infections in 24 hours till Monday morning.

Two more die of dengue, 2093 infected

Summary: Dhaka [Bangladesh], April 11 (ANI): The Dhaka-Rajshahi Highway in front of the Rajshahi University was blocked on Tuesday by about 700 students over a demand for reforming the existing quota system for recruitment in government services.

Quota protest: Students block Dhaka-Rajshahi highway

He also taught at Rajshahi University and Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, says a press release.