CHANDPUR: Education Minister Dipu Moni on Saturday (April 27) said the existing errors in textbooks are being fixed through scrutinizing the books.   "There are some inconsistencies and faults in textbooks. We are reconsidering and reviewing all the textbooks this year," she said.

BOGRA: Miscreants hacked an HSC examinee to death in Shajahanpur upazila of Bogra Saturday (April 27) noon. Nahid, 18, the deceased, was son of one Matiur Rahman from Ghashira village. He sat for HSC examinations this year, from Bogra Cantt Public School & College. Locals said

DHAKA: Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) issued a directive asking all higher secondary schools teachers not to take betel leaf, zarda and gul before students and in the classroom.    Besides, DSHE also asked teachers not to smoke in front of students inside and

ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY: Students of applied science and technology faculty continued their demonstration till Wednesday (April 24) noon demanding engineering technology degree under their respective faculties. At one stage of their demonstration, with the help of University administration,

JASHORE: The authorities of Jessore University of Science & Technology (JUST) handed down lifetime expulsion to three of its students and one-year expulsion to five others each. Besides, a library staff of the varsity was sacked on charge of harassing a female student mentally. The

DU: Job seekers gathered at Shahbagh intersection in the capital city demanding extension of the age limit for entering the public services to 35 years. From the rally, police arrested seven people. The rally was arranged on Saturday (April 20) afternoon under the banner of Bangladesh

FENI: Islamic Arabic University (IAU) has scrapped the existing governing body of Feni’s Sonagazi Islamia Senior Fazil Madrasa over the death of its student Nusrat Jahan Rafi. Acting Principal of the madrasa Md Hossain Ahmad confirmed the matter Friday (April 19).   A five-member

CHATTOGRAM: As many as 10 spelling mistakes were found in the question paper for 4th year honors final test of political science department of Chattogram University (CU).   The misspelled Bangla words include Chattogram, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy,

SAVAR: Jahangirnagar University (JU) authorities have curtailed the celebration of Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangla New Year 1426, following the death of an English department student last night. Nuruzzaman Nibvrit, 22, a third-year student of the English department, died of

DHAKA: Education Minister Dipu Moni stressed the need of introducing a combined entry test to all the public universities vowing to minimize sufferings of the applicants.  “It is very urgent. I know that several universities oppose it because of various reasons. But, a combined

DHAKA: The government has introduced new guidelines for recruitment of teachers in government primary schools, fixing honors as minimum qualification of female candidates for teaching jobs. Besides, the age limit for the positions of head teacher and assistant teacher has been fixed

CHATTOGRAM: The agitating section of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists of Chittagong University (CU) has withdrawn their indefinite strike called demanding resignation of proctor for filing case against them. Enamul Haque, former vice president of Chhatra League of CU, withdrew

DHAKA: The Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations of April 17, 18 and 22 have been rescheduled due to public holiday for Shab-e-Barat and other issues.  The exams will now be held on May 9, 11 and 12 afternoon respectively, said Professor Md. Ziaul Haque,

DHAKA: A court here asked police to submit probe report over the murder of former principal of Eden Mohila College Mahfuza Chowdhury Parveen on May 7. Metropolitan Magistrate Saifuzzaman Sharif on Monday (April 8) set the new date as Alamgir Mazumder, sub inspector of New Market Police

CHATTOGRAM: At least seven persons, including a police official, were injured when a group of BCL activists locked in a clash with police at main gate of the Chattogram University. During the clash, strikers vandalized a vehicle of detective branch (DB) of police. Injured ---Police

DHAKA: Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Tajul Islam ordered an investigation into the school ceiling collapse in Barguna’s Taltali upazila that left a class-III girl killed.  The minister also mourned death of the minor. The local LGRD office has been

BARGUNA: A class-III student was killed and five other children injured as the ceiling of a primary school building had collapsed in Taltali upazila of Barguna Saturday (April 6). The deceased was identified as Mansura, 8, daughter of one Nazir Hossain in Pochakoralia union of the

RANGPUR: Hundreds of examinees in Rangpur town sat for their first exam of HSC and equivalent 2019 by the light of candles after Sunday night’s storm had caused power outage.   All the power connections in the town were snapped due to the last night storm, said Northern Electricity

JU: The Jahangirnagar University (JU) authorities Monday (April 1) suspended five students on charge of beating and mugging a person on the campus. The suspended persons are - Md Al Raji, student of Government and Politics (45th batch), Sanjoy Ghosh, student of Drama and Dramatics

DHAKA: Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations began across the country Monday (April 1). The exams were scheduled to begin at 10:00am. Education Minister Dipu Moni visited an exam center at Siddheswari Girls’ College in Dhaka, in the morning. As per