An arrested JMB operative makes judicial confession about his involvement in murder of RU teacher AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee, police say. According to them, Maskawat Hasan is Rajshahi region's operational commander of the banned militant outfit.

An Awami League (AL) rebel chairman candidate is stabbed at Kismat Gonokoir union of Durgapur upazila in Rajshahi.

A sub-inspector along with his “aide” allegedly forged documents and signature of a magistrate and sold 23 stolen motorbikes at so-called auctions at Birganj Police Station in Dinajpur.

A man, who was critically injured in violence over the fourth phase of the union parishad polls held on May 7, died at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital.

Education ministry dissolves managing committee of 148 non-government schools under Rajshahi education board for taking extra money in tuition fees and registration fees for the SSC examinations.

Law enforcers open fire on activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir during a clash in Rajshahi.

Two more victims, who were injured in UP polls violence in Rajshahi and Mymensingh, have died.

Less than half a month back a university professor was brutally murdered in the district. Almost in a similar fashion, a pir (spiritual leader) was killed there by unknown assailants on Friday night.

A Pir (spiritual leader) has been hacked to death in Rajshahi’s Tanor upazila in a fashion that bears the hallmark of previous murders of bloggers and secular activists. This killing is the latest in the spate of grisly murders that has been haunting the north since last year.

Election Commission withholds all process for holding elections to all the 16 union councils of Bagmara upazila of Rajshahi.

The fate of the music school that slain Prof AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee had endeavoured to give an institutional structure has

Police yesterday claimed to have important information regarding the killers of Rajshahi University teacher Rezaul Karim Siddiquee.

Students of the Rajshahi University blocked the Dhaka-Rajshahi highway for three hours demanding justice for Professor AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee.

Four days into the killing of Prof Rezaul Karim Siddiquee, the police yesterday said they got information that the teacher had incurred wrath of fanatics by setting up a music school at his village Dargamaria in Bagmara upazila.

Family members of slain Prof Rezaul Karim Siddiquee yesterday urged all to remain alert for any propaganda campaign to portray the teacher as an atheist.

Teachers and students of Rajshahi University continue their protest, boycotting classes for the third consecutive day demanding punishment to the killers of Prof AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee.

A Rajshahi district Awami League leader was found dead yesterday.

While a reported statement of Islamic State labelled him as a promoter of atheism, Prof AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee was a

Rajshahi University teachers are getting murdered one after another because the real perpetrators are not being tried, according to victim families and colleagues of the slain teachers.

A local leader of ruling Awami League has died in Rajshahi shot from his own pistol. Blames have been placed on a friend who went into hiding soon after the incident.