Eminent citizens demand withdrawal of textbooks
Education ministry on Tuesday punished yet another National Curriculum and Textbook Board official responsible for errors in textbooks amid a call of 85 eminent citizens to immediately withdraw all books with mistakes.
Mosquito menace increases
Mosquito menace increased sharply in the capital in last five weeks causing untold sufferings to residents.
Sanders urges Dems to challenge -- but not obstruct -- Trump
Bernie Sanders said Senate Democratic leaders discussed Monday whether the party would flatly oppose any nomination President-elect Donald Trump makes to the Supreme Court.
North Korea sends message to Trump amid threat to fire missile 'at any time'
North Korea says it could launch an intercontinental ballistic missile "at any time," even as Pyongyang appeared to offer Donald Trump an avenue for future talks.
Jared Kushner to be named senior adviser to the president
Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, will be senior adviser to the president, a senior transition official told CNN Monday.
Brennan says Trump ignores intel community at nation's 'peril'
Outgoing CIA Director John Brennan says President-elect Donald Trump's failure to appreciate the value and importance of the intelligence community could put the nation "at great risk and peril."
E-textbook evades students
National Curriculum and Textbook Board has failed for the fourth consecutive year to provide the electronic version of textbooks introduced to ease the teaching method and make education entertaining.
PM pays homage to Sheikh Mujib on Homecoming Day
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday paid rich tributes to country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the occasion of the Homecoming Day of the great leader.
22,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar to Bangladesh in one week: UN
At least 65,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar – a third of them over the past week – since the army launched a crackdown in the north of Rakhine state, the UN said Monday.
2 NCTB officials made OSD over
Education ministry on Monday made two high officials of National Curriculum and Textbook Board officers on special duty for their failure to check errors in textbooks.
