With students now on their Ramadan and Eid holiday, Wahiduddin, on his final day as adviser yesterday, once again promised that the books would be delivered by March 10.
Both the previous government (Awami League) and opposition groups recruited, paid, and used children in violence during the July uprising, a United Nations Fact-Finding Mission has reported.
Instead of dismantling organised crime, the interim government appears to be using law enforcement as another tool for political persecution
A month on, there is still no justice for violence against adivasis
The government’s advisory committee on primary education reform has proposed a new system for teacher recruitment.
The United Nations fact-finding report has exposed disturbing accounts of gender-based violence during the July uprising last year, with women protesters facing physical assaults, rape threats, and arbitrary detention.
Enforced disappearances have long been a dark stain on Bangladesh's history, with Aynaghar standing as one of the most harrowing symbols of this systemic abuse.
A government-appointed advisory committee yesterday recommended scrapping the Primary Education Completion Examination and similar tests.
For years, extrajudicial killings have almost been a hallmark of Bangladesh law enforcement practices
Two weeks after the attack on adivasi protesters, the attackers still roam free
The University Grants Commission is considering a new public university named “July 36 University” for the seven government colleges that were under Dhaka University.
In Joypurhat, a group of people stormed a football field and forced a women's match to be cancelled
Admission seekers are set to face increased hassle with at least 10 public universities no longer participating in the cluster-based admission test system. They are holding entrance exams on their own.
Despite assurances from police of a zero-tolerance policy, citizens have seen a surge in crime
Police arrest hospitals staffers and a doctor for the death of a protester shot by law enforcers
Only 37% of 40.15cr textbooks distributed till first half of Jan
They risked everything for a better future, a better Bangladesh
At least 20 persons were injured yesterday in an attack on an indigenous group and its supporters protesting the removal of a graffiti from textbooks featuring the word “indigenous” (adivasi, in Bangla).
