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Due to decades of over-extraction, more than 40 percent of unions in High Barind, an already water-stressed region of Bangladesh, are experiencing severe depletion of groundwater, says a recent study. While climate change is impacting on the aquifer recharge, the study says, the depleting areas, spread across three districts of Rajshahi, Chapainawabganj, and Naogaon, are expanding, limiting people’s access to water for both drinking and irrigation. Hired by the Water Resources Planning Organisation (WARPO), the Institute of Water Modeling (IWM) conducted the study titled 'Hydrological investigation and modeling of the state of the surface and groundwater resources in the High Barind region’. Beginning in 2018, the study works completed with WARPO approving the draft final report on June 25, 2023, says Md Rezaul Maksud Jahedi, director general of WARPO. The final report is likely to be published in August, he said. The figure shows the dry season groundwater situation in the High Ba

 

A high-level committee probing the death of Sultana Jasmine, a Naogaon land office employee, visited Rajshahi today. Md Mahmudul Hossain Khan, secretary of the Coordination and Reforms wing at the Cabinet Division, told our Rajshai staff correspondent that the eight-member committee convened by him began the investigation a day before in Naogaon. Sultana, an office assistant of Naogaon municipality and Chandipur union land office, died on March 24, two days after she was detained by a team of Rab-5 on her way to work. Her death triggered criticism and the High Court questioned the authority of Rab in detaining her without any case. The ministry formed the committee on May 22 and asked it to report in 15 days. Mahmudul said they talked to Sultana's family members and government staffers in Naogaon. This morning, they went to Rajshahi circuit house and talked to Enamul Haque, deputy director of local government at the office of Rajshahi's Divisional Commissioner. They also visite

 

Ruhul Amin, who studies textile engineering at the Bangladesh Polytechnic Institute, has successfully used the image implanting method to produce high-quality designer pears at his pond in Chhoto Palsa village under Mohonpur upazila of Rajshahi. Having taken up aquaculture a few years back in a bid to fund his education, Amin began the venture by farming breeds of carp before adding oysters to mix in July 2022 to make more profit. Oysters generally produce pearls when an irritant, such as food particles or a parasite, get lodged in their mantle, where the internal organs are stored. To defend against such foreign bodies, the oysters ooze a type of carbonate mineral and protein that create a material known as nacre, which is the nucleus of a pearl. Layers of nacre are added over time with the pearl growing in size with each excretion. However, it can take up to three years for pearls to reach an adequate size for harvest using this method while the image implanting technique shaves down

Enjoy the Eid holidays. Eid Mubarak! Here's my tribute to Dil Afroze Khuki who loved and lived an incredibly extraordinary life full of struggles to keep alive the love for her husband. রাজশাহীর দিল আফরোজ খুকি। অল্পবয়সে বিয়ে হয়েছিল তার। বিয়ের কয়েকবছর পরে স্বামীহারা হন। স্বামীর ভালবাসা বাঁচিয়ে রাখতে আর বিয়ে করেননি। সংবাদপত্র বিক্রি করে জীবন সংগ্রামের পথ বেছে নেন। ভালবাসার ইতিহাসে তিনি অমর হয়ে থাকবেন কি না তা সময়ই বলে দিবে।  ভালবেসে অনন্য খুকি