Looking Back 2017: Education plagued by question leak
The government in the outgoing year failed to check question leak in public exams; it rather spread to the school-based terminal exams of elementary education, causing further slide in the already declining standards of education
PM visits Jessore today
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina is set to visit Jessore on Sunday to join the President Parade-2017 marking the commissioning of Bangladesh Air Force officers and inaugurate different development projects in the district.
Pry pass rate falls to 8yr low, jr school to 7yr low
Pass rate of primary completion examinations fell to its eight-year low while combined pass rate in Junior School Certificate and equivalent examinations dropped to its seven-year low. Pass rate of Ibtedayi completion exam fell to its five-year low, show results published on Saturday
BSF shoots dead B’deshi, abducts another
The Indian Border Security Force shot dead a Bangladeshi trader and injured another along northern Lalmonirhat border in early Saturday when a senior-level meeting between border guarding forces was underway in south-eastern Chittagong
DEMO FOR MPO Teachers to begin hunger strike today
Khulna University graduate Abhishek Mondal never bent down to poverty on his way to achieving ‘first class’ at all levels in his academic career.After completing his master’s in sociology, he joined Shimu Reza MP College in Satkhira as a lecturer in 2012 with maintaining all official procedure
LOOKING BACK 2017 Soaring prices sapped consumers
Abnormal price hike of daily essentials, from rice to garlic and salt to onion, remained a matter of worry for the consumers throughout the outgoing year, with traders and importers making whatever they could out of the situation amid allegations of lapses in monitoring by the government agencies concerned.
Locals vulnerable to diphtheria outbreak among Rohingyas
Rapid spread of diphtheria among Rohingyas is turning into a matter of concern for locals as they are coming in touch with ethnic minorities for carrying out humanitarian assistance and others services.
Yaba factory busted in Ctg
The Detective Branch of Chittagong Metropolitan Police on Wednesday arrested four people along with 2,50,000 pieces of contraband Yaba tablets from a factory unearthed in Bapari Para area in Chittagong city.
Remain alert to safeguard independence, sovereignty PM tells army
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday asked the newly-commissioned officers of Bangladesh Army to remain always alert and ready for safeguarding the country’s hard-earned independence and sovereignty
Two combat aircraft crash
Two combat trainer aircraft Yak-130 of Bangladesh Air Force crashed at Moheshkhali of the country’s south-eastern Cox’s Bazar on Wednesday evening. Inter-Services Public Relations director Lieutenant Colonel Muhammad Rashidul Islam said all the four pilots were safe.
