Category: Miscellaneous

DSHE DG Mahbubur Rahman passes away

Director General of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) directorate Prof Md Mahbubur Rahman died at a hospital in Singapore on Saturday. He was 57. Mahbubur Rahman breathed his last around 12:20 pm (Bangladesh time) while undergoing treatment at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore. The DG, who

Hacked Facebook Private messages for sale

Hackers appear to have compromised and published private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook users' accounts. The perpetrators told the BBC Russian Service that they had details from a total of 120 million accounts, which they were attempting to sell, although there are reasons to be sceptical a

President for more investment in people, education

President M Abdul Hamid today emphasized the need for more investment in people, their education and skill development to build human capital for the future. “We must invest more and more in our people, in their education and skill development . . . Only the right investment in our human capital ca

Journalists continue protests against Digital Security Act

Journalists on Wednesday staged protest against the Digital Security Act saying the law would be the death bell of free media in Bangladesh. Factions of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists and Dhaka Union of Journalists protested against the law in front of National Press Club, covering their f

Madrasa student struck and killed by bus in Dhaka

An 11-year-old boy has been killed after being struck by a bus on Dhaka’s Pragati Sarani. The accident took place near Jamuna Future Park in the Baridhara area around 6:45am on Thursday, said Kamruzzaman, the chief of Bhatara Police Station. The deceased has been identified as Atik, a madrasa stud

Govt makes education accessible to all: Maya

Disaster Management and Relief Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya has said education has been made accessible to all the general students through nationalising schools and colleges at upazila level. “Now, no student would stop study for want of money as the government implemented the visionar

Bus runs over 2 schoolgirls

Two schoolgirls were killed in a road accident in Goalanda upazila of Rajbari district on Saturday morning. Deceased Zakia, 15, and Chandni, 15, were students of Class IX at Doulatdia Model High School in the upazila. Rajbari Highway Police Station sub-inspector Masud Parvez confirmed the matter,

Govt to distribute 35 crore free textbooks

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid today said the government will distribute about 35 crore textbooks free of cost among primary and secondary level students next year. “Printing works of these textbooks have already been completed. We’ve reached around 11 crore textbooks at different educational

Revise Digital Security Act: UN

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights today called upon the Bangladesh government to urgently revise the Digital Security Act, to ensure that it is in line with international human rights law. “We call on Bangladesh to urgently revise the Digital Security Act, to ensure that it is in line with inte

US duo William Nordhaus and Paul Romer win Nobel Economics Prize

US economists William Nordhaus and Paul Romer on Monday shared the 2018 Nobel Economics Prize for integrating innovation and climate with economic growth, the jury said. Nordhaus, a professor at Yale University, and Romer, a former World Bank chief economist now at New York University’s Stern Scho

Congolese Mukwege, Iraq's Murad win 2018 Nobel Peace Prize

Denis Mukwege, a gynecologist helping victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Nadia Murad, a Yazidi rights activist and survivor of sexual slavery by Islamic State, won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize today. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it had awarded them the prize for

Abused children carry the trauma in their cells: Study

Children subjected to abuse may carry the physical hallmark of that trauma in their cells, scientists said today, in research that could help criminal investigations probing historic mistreatment. The imprints may also shed light on whether or not trauma can be passed on between generations as has l

Nahid for promoting skill-based education

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid today laid emphasis on skill-based education to build an economically advanced Bangladesh. “We have attached top priority to expansion of technical and vocational education to ensure better access of students to job markets,” he told a function at the Institutio

US, Japanese pair win Nobel Medicine Prize for cancer therapy

Two immunologists, James Allison of the US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan, won the 2018 Nobel Medicine Prize for research that has revolutionised the treatment of cancer, the jury said on Monday. The pair were honoured “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation,”

Digital Security Act is draconian: TIB

Transparency International Bangladesh’s (TIB) Executive Director Dr Iftekharuzzaman has dubbed the Digital Security Act as draconian and gravely concerning. Speaking at a programme at Dhaka University, he said the law will not only curb freedom of speech in the country, but also restrict free journ

164 US-Bangla passengers escape unhurt in Chattogram

An aircraft of US-Bangla Airlines narrowly escaped an accident as it was forced to make an emergency landing at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram due to its non-functional nose gear. The aircraft with 164 passengers, including 11 children, on board made an emergency landing at the air

43 secondary schools nationalized

A total of 43 more private secondary schools of the country have been nationalized as part of government’s latest nationalization processes. Education Ministry has issued an order to this effect on Monday (today). On August 28, a total of twelve more secondary schools of the country have also been

Digital Security Act overly broad, ripe for abuse: HRW

The Digital Security Act, which replaces the much-criticised Information and Communication Technology Act (ICT), retains the most problematic provisions of that law and adds more provisions criminalising peaceful speech, Human Rights Watch said today (25 September) . 'The new Digital Security Act i

Female madrasa student found dead in Dhaka

A 15-year-old female student was found dead at a madrasa in Dhaka’s East Rampura area this afternoon. officer-in-charge of Hatirjheel Police Station told that, Sanzida Rashid Meem a resident student of hafez section at Ulon Jatiya Mohila Madrasa, was found hanging from the ceiling in a toilet on th