News Desk : dhakamirror.com The music department of Rajshahi University on Sunday celebrated its 22nd founding anniversary amid enthusiasm and festivity on the campus. RU vice-chancellor professor Golam Sabbir Sattar inaugurated the day-long programme by lighting a lamp and rendering the national anthem in front of the Syed Ismail Hossain Siraji Academic Building at about ... Read more
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RU cancels ‘controversial’ recruitment policy
News Desk : dhakamirror.com The authorities of Rajshahi University cancelled the ‘controversial’ teachers recruitment policy and formulated a new one to recruit meritorious students at the university. According to the new policy, a student must have a thesis for being eligible to apply for the post of a lecturer at the university. The teachers recruitment ... Read more
UIU Debate Club emerges as National Champion
The fest was held at Rajshahi University News Desk : dhakamirror.com United International University Debate Club (UIUDC) became champions at the Martyred Dr Shamsuzzoha Memorial 6th Gold Bangladesh National Debate Fest 2022. The fest was held at Rajshahi University on September 2-3, 2022, according to a press release published on Wednesday. Rajshahi University vice-chancellor Golam ... Read more
Four jailed for taking proxy exam
News Desk : dhakamirror.com Yesterday, four people — two of whom were Dhaka University students — were given prison terms for taking the rajshahi University (RU) admission test on behalf of candidates. Dr. Shamir Ray, a lecturer at the Gazi Medical College in Khulna, was given a one-year jail term. Ekhlasur Rahman, a student at ... Read more
RU introduces health insurance for students
News Desk : dhakamirror.com Rajshahi University introduced health insurance and life insurance facilities for its students for the first time in its history. Under the insurance, a student of the university will get insurance facilities up to a maximum of Tk 80,000 if he/she falls ill and is admitted to a hospital for treatment, while
RU halts teacher’s promotion over sexual harassment of 2 students
Rajshahi University authorities have suspended the four-year increment of a teacher, and also his promotion, for harassing sexually and mentally two students of the university’s Institute of Education and Research (IER). The decision was taken against Assistant Professor Bishnu Kumar Adhikari at the university’s 514th Syndicate meeting chaired by Vice-Chancellor Prof Golam Sabbir Sattar yesterday
To ‘discourage TikTokers’ RU bans unnecessary movement on campus during Eid
RU authorities banned unnecessary movement on the campus during the 10-day vacation starting Wednesday (April 27, 2022). Prof Pradeep Kumar Pandey, Administrator of Public Relations Office, issued the notice, our Rajshahi staff correspondent reports
RU, CU postpones in-person classes for 2 weeks
The authorities of Rajshahi University and Chittagong University have postponed in-person classes for the next two weeks following the government’s decision to keep educational institutions closed till February 6 amid sharp rise in Covid-19 transmission. The two universities issued separate notifications in this regard
DU resumes the classes on campus, RU reopens halls today
Dhaka University is set to resume in-person classes while Rajshahi University reopens the residential halls today after one-and-a-half years’ closure since March 18, 2020 due to the Covid outbreak in the country. Dhaka University academic council on October 7 decided to resume in-person classes from October 17 as per the recommendation of the Provost
RU summer vacation begins Sunday
Summer vacation of Rajshahi University will begin on Sunday. On the occasion of summer vacation, May Day and Buddha Purnima, the university will remain closed from 28 April to May 31, said a press release of RU public relations administration. During the vacation, halls will also
RU students rally demand violence-free campus
A students’ rally at Rajshahi University on Sunday accused the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party of patronising Jamat-Shibir terror and called for ensuring peaceful campuses. About three hundred students of the university joined the rally organised by Bangladesh Chhatra League on the campus in the morning.
RU accords reception to freshers
Rajshahi University authorities accorded a reception to the freshers under the academic session 2012-13 at Kazi Nazrul Islam auditorium on the campus on Saturday. RU vice-chancellor Professor Muhammad Mizanuddin presided over the reception programme while pro-vice-chancellor Professor Sarowar Jahan
Students rally against two-day weekly holiday at RU
Rajshahi University students on Sunday went on demonstrations on the campus, demanding that the university syndicate’s decision to execute a two-day weekly holiday should be cancelled to mitigate the session gam. The university syndicate at a meeting on January 5 decided to implement a two-day weekly holiday for all when no classes and examinations will ... Read more
Registration deadline for RU convocation extended
The Rajshahi University authorities have fixed October 18 as the deadline of registration for the 8th convocation of the university in spite of October 6, says a press release on Monday. Earlier, the registration began on September 7. The convocation was scheduled to be held on December 2. The authorities in a press release said ... Read more
Swanan celebrates 31st anniv
Rajshahi University based recitation troupe Swanan organised a two-day recitation programme to celebrate the 31st founding anniversary of the troupe. The programme ended on Friday with a reunion of former and present activists of Swnan followed by a poems recitation programme at the Kazi Nazrul Islam Auditorium. Earlier the two-day long programme featuring procession, reunion and recitation ... Read more
Unidentified miscreants set fire to a bus at RU
Unidentified miscreants set fire on bus of the students of Rajshahi University early on Tuesday on the campus. Two night guards— Saidur Rahman and Obaidur Rahman— said that they suddenly saw flames and smoke coming out of the bus parked at the university bus stand at 12:10am. On information, fire service vehicles rushed to the spot ... Read more
Withdrawal of case against 13 RU students demanded
Rajshahi University teachers and students observed “Student-Teacher Repression Day” yesterday, calling upon the government and authorities concerned to withdraw the case filed against 13 RU students over the August 22, 2007 unrest on the campus. That day, law enforcers assaulted RU teachers, students and staff who were protesting
Students submit memorandum to VC
Restoration of RU Ambulance Service Students submit memorandum to VC Following The Daily Star’s August 4 report “Both RU ambulances out of order”, some 100 students of Bangabandhu Hall of Rajshahi University yesterday submitted a memorandum to the vice-chancellor demanding restoration of ambulance services. The memorandum, containing signatures of over 200 students, was handed over ... Read more
RU students hold demo for RUCSU election
Rajshahi University students on Tuesday went on a demonstration on the campus, demanding immediate election to the university’s central students’ union and revival of Teachers-Students Cultural Centre of the university. At around 11:30am, under the banner of ‘progressive students’ union’, around a hundred leaders and activists of the university unit Bangladesh Students’ Union,
Students go on rampage over substandard food at RU
Residential students at 16 halls, 11 for males and 5 for females, of Rajshahi University are being served ‘unhygienic and substandard’ foods in the dining halls. Many students have alleged that stale foods are served while dust and insects are often found in the foods. A number of residential students said that despite repeated complaints, the