Bangladesh News

Record 97pc pass

Bangladesh News — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:12:45 +0000

Primary education appears to have got a significant boost. This year, 97.26 percent examinees passed the primary education terminal tests, hitting a record high since the introduction of the examination in 2009. The pass rate rose by 4.92 percentage points from last year’s 92.34 percent. It was 88.84 percent in 2009. The results published yesterday [...]

Monipur best school in country

Bangladesh News — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:11:55 +0000

Monipur High School in the capital’s Mirpur has emerged as the best school in the country in this year’s primary terminal examinations. Seventeen among the top 20 schools are from Dhaka. The rest are from Comilla, Chittagong and Khulna which secured seventh, 14th and 18th positions. Monipur High School achieved cent percent pass rate in [...]

Ebtedayee students’ pass rate 91pc

Bangladesh News — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:10:27 +0000

The results of Ebtedayee Education Terminal Examination, 2011 were published yesterday with 91.28 percent students coming out successful. A total of 2,150 students secured GPA – 5 [Grade Point Average]. This year, around 2,50,000 class V madrasa students — over 1,16,000 boys and 1,32,000 girls — passed the examinations. The percentage of boys coming out [...]

Dropout still a major concern

Bangladesh News — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:09:18 +0000

Dropout at primary level remains a serious concern, casting a shadow over other successes such as high pass rate and record turnout in the examinations. Of around 23.16 lakh students who registered to take this year’s primary terminal and Ebtedayee exams, some 1.3 lakh did not appear at the test. The number of absentees was [...]

BNP to join talks

Bangladesh News — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:08:15 +0000

BNP yesterday decided to join the talks with the president on forming the next Election Commission. The decision came from a BNP-led four-party alliance meeting last night just hours after the main opposition got an invitation letter from President Zillur Rahman. “We’ve taken the decision to join the dialogue after discussion among the alliance components”, [...]

Education shines with success

Bangladesh News — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:07:03 +0000

Education is one of the few areas in which the achievements of this government in the last three years look bright. It has widened the free textbook distribution scheme, framed a national education policy and initiated updating the curricula as part of its electoral pledges for ensuring modern and quality education. Embarrassed due to a [...]

Death penalty for terrorism

Bangladesh News — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:04:37 +0000

The cabinet yesterday approved the final draft of the Anti-terrorism (amendment) Act, 2011 with a provision of death penalty for getting involved in, supporting or financing militancy and terrorist activities in the country. According to the proposed act, a convict will have to serve a minimum rigorous jail term of three years to a maximum [...]

PM reiterates commitment on free EC

Bangladesh News — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 05:55:44 +0000

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday reiterated her strong commitment of strengthening democracy and democratic institutions of the country, including the Election Commission, since, as she put it, she had always fought for establishing the rights of the people. She vowed to work for the welfare of the people until the end of her life. “We [...]

Charges sent back to prosecution

Bangladesh News — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 05:48:05 +0000

In a setback to the prosecution the International Crimes Tribunal has deferred until the first week of next month the hearing on the war crimes charges against Ghulam Azam because of flaws in the classification of the charges. The charges were not “properly arranged and classified”, the three-member ICT said during the 10-minute hearing yesterday. [...]

Ordinance issued to raise govt service age

Bangladesh News — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 05:46:11 +0000

President Zillur Rahman yesterday promulgated an ordinance to make effective the cabinet decision of increasing the retirement age of public servants by two years to 59. The cabinet on December 19 approved a proposal of increasing the retirement age by amending the Public Servants (retirement) Act, 1974. With the promulgation of the ordinance, the government’s [...]