Wasim Bin Habib

The University Grants Commission has proposed introducing written examinations along with the existing multiple choice question in the admission tests for public universities.

Apparently not content with being confined to public universities and colleges, Bangladesh Chhatra League now moves to form committees at schools.

"Why did the intellectuals kill?"

Uniform admission test for students' enrolment in public universities, overdue for seven years, is likely to be introduced partially next year.

The much-hyped elevation of primary education up to class-VIII is not going to happen anytime soon.

Six-year-old Jashim sat, dressed in a grey T-shirt and trousers smeared with mud, amid piles of donated clothes strewn along the Cox's Bazar-Teknaf road. He suddenly started running after a slow moving car.

As the sun's first light fell across the hills of Balukhali in Ukhia, a frailly built Mohammad Syed could be seen trying his best to walk quicker with the help of a wooden stick.

Mohammad Zafar held one of his twin sons tight in his arms and kept the other in the lap as the trawler bobbed up and down in rough waters amid heavy rain.

Dark clouds started to gather on the horizon near Teknaf yesterday morning and soon they covered the entire sky. The wind picked up

Wrapping his two-year-old daughter in a towel, Jiraman Ali was walking fast towards a medial camp near their temporary shelter at Balukhali in Ukhia.

Rashmati Sharma had celebrated Durga Puja with her family and neighbours in Myanmar with due religious fervour last year. Her

The morning sun brought some relief for Shariful Islam as a little rain, he feared, would put his journey back home in jeopardy.

The clock struck 3 in the afternoon of August 21, 2004. At Sudha Sadan, the residence of Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, preparations were underway to head for Bangabandhu Avenue where the party was holding an anti-militancy rally.

It was not dawn yet.It was not dawn yet. At House 677 on Road 32 in Dhanmondi, a contingent of security personnel comprised of police and army was on duty at the residence of President Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Seventy-year-old Shah Jamal grew up on the bank of the Shitalakkhya witnessing countless events centring on the river. A ragpicker,

Shamsunnahar Nupur always tries to hide a framed photograph of her husband Jahangir.

For the parents of Bishwajit, the past five years have been agonising.

City dwellers yesterday woke up to find that most of the capital has virtually turned into a swamp following rains.

Resentment is brewing among non-government teachers and employees of MPO-enlisted schools and colleges as the government has

It was a quiet afternoon at the Holey Artisan Bakery in the capital's Gulshan on July 1, one of the last days of Ramadan in 2016. As the sun went down, the Western-style café with 19 staffers in the posh neighbourhood got busier. Diners started arriving and ordering tapas, pizzas, croissants, pastries and cakes.