Noman News The country's only Heritage Archives in Rajshahi is a living museum of history
1. On 23 October 2022 at 13.00 hours, under Motihar police station of Rajshahi city, conducting an operation in Talaimari intersection area, they recovered (1) ganja-12.7 kg, (2) mobile-01, (3) SIM card-01 and accused 1. Md. Anand Mridha (20), father-deceased Monwar Mridha, Permanent Sang Chawga, Upazila/Thana-Vedarganj, District-Shariatpur, Present tenant of Sang Bus Mier Bari, Behind Islamia Hospital, Sayedabad, Upazila/Thana- Jatrabari, District-Dhaka. who arrested 2. Disclosure in the details of the incident:- Based on the intelligence information, the joint operation team of RAB-5, CPSC and CPC-1 of Rajshahi came to know that 01 passenger bus of Desh Travels
whose Reg No.-Dhaka Metro-B-14-6958 (Seat No.-G- 3) 01 person is coming towards Rajshahi along with narcotic ganja in passenger base. As soon as the matter came to know, the Motihar police station of Rajshahi metropolis conducted a check post on the Bhadra-bound highway in front of the under-construction building of Bangabandhu Square at Talaimari intersection. During the check post, the Desh Travels bus from Dhaka to Rajshahi came in front
of the check post and stopped on the side of the road with a signal. While searching the bus, the person was arrested while sitting in G-3 seat 01 inside the bus. 3. The accused was interrogated that the illegal drug marijuana was hidden in the back luggage box of the bus. He said that he would collect the narcotic ganja from an unknown place in Comilla district and sell it to an unknown person in Rajshahi district and earlier several times he had similarly collected ganja and transported it to drug dealers in different parts of the country including Rajshahi. In this regard, a case is being registered against the accused at the Motihar police station of Rajshahi city.
For the purpose of collecting and preserving Bangladesh's history and heritage materials, Professor Dr. He told the story of the beginning of the Mahbubur Rahman Archive Museum. This former professor of the history department said, 'I was once disappointed while doing a PhD on local history. The main reason was the lack of information. I went down to collect information and found that information about local history is not available anywhere. Then in the 90s, I went to an archive in the Netherlands and saw that posters, leaflets, banners, festoons and periodicals were collected there. From there I decided to build a heritage archives in Bangladesh as well.
Mentioning that he established this exceptional collection out of personal interest, he said, "In 1998, I started collecting leaflets, posters and various school-college memorabilia and anniversaries at home as a personal initiative. I used to teach students then. I used to tell them that if they get souvenirs and anniversaries in their schools and colleges, they should bring them to me. I got quite a response. Along with the students, friends also started giving leaflets, banners, posters, souvenirs and books. Every day I used to buy books and magazines at the rate of kg from the old book shop in Rajshahi's Sahib Bazar. In this way, I once bought two Bichitra magazines. I started collecting them at home from 2002.
