4 kids hurt

Four children were injured when three crude bombs blew up while they were playing with those at Abhaynagar upazila in Jessore
9 August 2015

The Curious Case of HSC Result Trends

For the past few years, board exams in Bangladesh followed a common trend: each year there was a higher passing and GPA 5 rate than the year before.
8 August 2015

HSC results tomorrow

The results of Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations will be published tomorrow.
7 August 2015

British schoolgirl has higher IQ score than Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking

Nicole Barr, a 12-year-old from Essex in England scores a 162 on her Mensa IQ test — that's two points higher than what Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking scored, reports the Mashable.
6 August 2015

Switching Academic Goals

Commerce or Science? When choosing subjects for our first board exams, and consequently our future careers, are we really confined to those binary alternatives?
5 August 2015

THE NIGHT BEFORE THE EXAM

It is a fact well known that the night before the exam is the most important for a university student.
5 August 2015

Kushtia Jubo League leader held in police assault case

Police yesterday arrested Abul Kasem Joardar, president of Mirpur upazila unit of Jubo League in a case filed for assaulting two on-duty
3 August 2015

Elephants kill two in Rangamati

Two people were killed and another was injured in an attack by wild elephants at Shiber Aga village in Longodu upazila of the district
30 July 2015

Missing weaver found dead in Sirajganj

A handloom worker, who went missing from Shahjadpur upazila of Sirajganj on July 24, was found dead yesterday.
26 July 2015

7 killed in Gopalganj road crash

Seven people including three women killed in a bus-microbus collision in Kashiani upazila of Gopalganj as death toll on highways continues to rise.
25 July 2015

Man found dead

Police recovered the body of a mentally challenged elderly man from a pond in Sadar upazila of the district yesterday morning. The
23 July 2015

Posing with endangered River Dolphin

In a mindless act of disregard to endangered Gangetic River Dolphin, a Facebook user has posted photos in which he poses with a dead dolphin calf.
22 July 2015

A Right or a Commodity?

Sumaya Sarah has enrolled in an MBA programme in a private university. The tuition fee of the one-year-long MBA programme costs 300,000 takas. Sumaya, the daughter of a retired government officer does not want to impose this burden of tuition fee on her
16 July 2015

KolpoKoushol: A Knowledge Initiative

The World Bank's Knowledge Economic Index ranks innovation in Bangladesh at 191 and shows a long and winding road ahead for innovation and technology here.
15 July 2015

Study Clans

So this one time my maths teacher at university told us that 1+1>2 when it comes to group studies.
15 July 2015

4 maunds of hemp seized

Police in a raid seized four maunds of Indian contraband hemp worth about Tk 20 lakh from a truck on Rangpur-Kurigram road in Teesta
15 July 2015

Body recovered

Police recovered the body of an unidentified man, aged about 40, from Chiteshwari village in Mirzapur upazila of the district on Tuesday.
15 July 2015

Bank official among 3 held for Tk 1.18 cr embezzlement

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday arrested three people including a bank official and his wife for embezzling Tk 1.18 crore from Sonali Bank's Tanore branch in the district.
15 July 2015

Sabrang's Termite House and a Dream of Prosperity

Who is it that would live in a house full of termites?
15 July 2015

Fishermen, traders happy as hilsa abundant in Bay

Plenty of hilsa fish is being netted for the last several days in Patuakhali and Barguna districts, much to the happiness of fishermen and traders.
14 July 2015