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Teachers and guardians blamed poor preparations, lack of awareness and tight examination schedule for the large number of dropouts in the first ever Junior School Certificate and Junior Dakhil Certificate examinations. This year, the education ministry introduced JSC and JDC examinations abolishing the junior scholarship examinations or term final examinations for class VIII

No trace of 3 youths missing during Rupganj violence a month ago It has been a month since Shamsher Mollah went missing during the clashes between villagers and law enforcers in Rupganj over purchase of land for an army housing project. Most of Shamsher’s family members now seem certain that he will never return. Considering ... Read more

A schoolgirl reportedly committed suicide in Dinajpur on Saturday after being harassed by a neighbour. The family said Shabnoor, 15, daughter of Aminul Islam, a resident of Farakkabad at Birol, had committed suicide after being harassed by Rabiul Islam, a resident of the village. She was a Class V student of the Farakkabad BRAC Primary ... Read more

Chaotic vehicular movement, reckless driving causing frequent accidents A highway policeman with almost no logistics has to keep vigil on average over a 12-kilometre highway, meaning major parts of the 11,806-kilometre roads always remain out of law enforcers’ watch. Lack of proper vigil by highway police allows drivers to disobey traffic rules at will that ... Read more

Four of a family died in a fire caused by the explosion of the gas cylinder of a CNG-run microbus on the Dhaka–Chittagong Highway at Gazaria in Munshiganj on Saturday. The police and witnesses said the cylinder of the microbus carrying eight people exploded after the vehicle had hit the road divider when it was ... Read more

Dhaka-Chittagong Highway Four-lane scheme delayed by a year New consultancy firm awaits govt nod Launching of the construction works to upgrade Dhaka-Chittagong highway would take more time although 11 months since the signing of the job contract have already been passed over consultancy glitch. Arifur Rahman Zinnah, director of the Tk 1,655 crore project, claimed ... Read more

A speeding bus from the opposite direction overtook a CNG-run auto-rickshaw and whizzed past the bus these correspondents were travelling by, missing a collision by a whisker. For a second it looked like there would be a head-on crash and those who watched it began to scream. This was one of six such close shaves ... Read more

A 23-year-old businessman was beaten to death by some assailants on Nasir Uddin Sardar Lane in the Dhaka city’s Sutrapur area Friday night, the hospital sources said. The victim, businessman Mahbubur Rahman Robin, was running a video-game shop at the area. He was beaten up by some assailants on Nasir Uddin Sardar Lane on Friday ... Read more

Bangladesh, 12 other countries meet in Russia today to draw up plan Leaders of a few countries, where tigers are still found in the wild, have gathered for a make or break summit in Russia to save the critically endangered animal and thrash out a global recovery plan to double its numbers by 2022. Premiers ... Read more

Tk 945cr project work starts next month to keep them flowing round-the-year Water in the capital’s river system — the Buriganga, Turag, Balu and Shitalakkhya rivers — will flow unceasingly round the year in three years, said Humayun Kabir, chief engineer (central) of Water Development Board. The inspiring news came with the launching of Tk ... Read more

Highways turn into death traps during Eid holidays At least 44 people were killed and scores of others were injured in road accidents across the country during the Eid holidays. In Pabna, five people were killed and 30 injured when a bus plunged into a roadside ditch at Baokola in Atgharia upazila

Attacked after he protested harassment of his granddaughter Stalkers strangled an elderly person for protesting the harassment of his granddaughter on Eid day in Kurigram. The victim, Abdus Sobhan, 74, of Noleya village under Bhurungamari upazila of the district, was killed by two local youths, Mostafa, 20, and Ripon, 24, said Sobhan’s family members and

At least 27 people, most of them cattle traders, landed in hospital after being drugged unconscious by organised gangs since Tuesday morning, the police and hospital sources said. Sources in Dhaka Medical College Hospital said 27 people who had been drugged unconscious received treatment at the hospital from the day before Eid-ul-Azha to

Five persons were killed in separate incidents in the capital and its suburbs during the three-day Eid holiday. A group of unruly youths beat up a 73-year-old retired bank official, Mahfujul Haque Khan, for protesting their gathering in front of his house in the city’s North Bashabo around 10:40pm on Wednesday. Mahfujul, a cardiac patient, became ... Read more

Eid-ul-Azha, one of the two major religious festivals of the Muslims, was celebrated across the country on Wednesday amid religious fervour, spirit of sacrifice and festivity. Affluent Muslims celebrated the day by sacrificing animals in remembrance of the sacrifice of Hazrat Ibrahim (AS), who was instructed by almighty Allah

Burglars stole valuables from four flats of a building while the residents were on Eid vacation and a gang of robbers looted a house at gunpoint in the city’s Sutrapur on Thursday night. Locals and police sources said a gang of thieves stole valuables from flats of Abdur Razzak and Hossain Miah on the ground ... Read more

Asian Games Silver for women cricketers The Bangladesh women’s cricket team made sure that the national anthem would be played in the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou despite their ten-wicket defeat to Pakistan in the final yesterday. The silver medal was confirmed for Bangladesh when they raced to a comfortable nine-wicket win over China to ... Read more

Home goers have started leaving Dhaka as the three-day public holiday on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha begins today. People who left Dhaka on Monday to celebrate the Eid festival in the countryside suffered long delays on different routes due to tailbacks,

Cabinet okays draft law to conserve forests The government is going for a tougher law to clamp down on rampant tree-felling in an effort to conserve forests. The cabinet yesterday approved in principle the draft of Forest Act (Amendment) 2010, prescribing longer jail terms and heftier fines for illegal logging and other related

Eid-ul-Azha, the second biggest religious festival of the Muslims, commemorating the sacrifice of Prophet Ibrahim, will be celebrated on Wednesday. The celebrations will begin with Eid congregations across the country followed by sacrifice of animals in the name of Allah