Wasim Bin Habib

Adult literacy rate in the country rose to a 12-year high of 72.3 percent last year. The rate was 51.6 percent in 2004 and 64.6 percent in 2015, says a report titled “Sample Vital Registration System (SVRS)” prepared by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics.

Amid growing concerns of tailbacks on highways, holidaymakers have started leaving the capital for homes to celebrate Eid with their loved ones, and the rush is expected to gain momentum today.

An anti-money laundering taskforce will ask the government to introduce a permanent attorney service with competent lawyers to fight militancy.

Ezaharul Haque has been upset since he learned about the government's decision to impose a uniform 15 percent VAT this July. The thought of more money going out of his pockets to purchase necessary goods and services concerned him.

Thousands of Eid holidaymakers may suffer immensely in traffic jam if the authorities fail to control heavy traffic on some key points of the highways. Traffic either slows to a crawl or goes haywire at these points, leaving people trapped in gridlocks for hours during the Eid rush every year.

Even two and a half years ago, worry over water for irrigation would cast a shadow on Uday's hope for a good harvest.

Shayla Sultana could not believe her ears when she heard that the much-talked-about uniform VAT rate of 15 percent will be applicable to English medium schools.

Although the government has increased budgetary allocations for the education sector over the years attaching top priority to it, the

The more degrees you obtain, the more you run the risk of remaining unemployed. It may sound odd, but it's true if we go by a latest government survey. Conducted by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics between December 2013 and June 2015, the survey shows that unemployment rate was the highest among people having tertiary education.

Mazhar Hossain stopped counting the number of copies of his curriculum vitae submitted seeking jobs since he completed his

The High Court yesterday declared illegal annual readmission and session fees charged by English medium schools, much to the relief of students and their guardians. HC bench of Justice Sheikh Hassan Arif and Justice Md Badruzzaman delivered the verdict after hearing two writ petitions filed by two guardians in 2012 and 2014, challenging the legality of the fees.

A mother she is of 40 children. She has not given birth to them but that doesn't make any less satisfactory the motherhood she tastes when she prepares food for them, gets them ready for school, holds them with affection as they fall sick and tells them stories in bed before sleep.

The government plans to take up a massive $16 billion programme for secondary education to transform the sector by improving the quality of education and developing employability skills of secondary graduates.

The slump in this year's SSC results thanks to introduction of a new evaluation method reinforces the long-held notion about the teachers' being liberal in checking the answer scripts.

The success rate in this year's SSC examinations has suffered a significant fall thanks to the introduction of a new method of evaluating answer scripts and students' poor performance in English and Mathematics in Comilla board. The pass percentage of the Secondary School Certificate exams under the eight education boards has come down to 81.21 percent, dipping 7.49 percentage points from last year, show the results published yesterday.

Canadian explorer Niko Resources has left behind a hard-to-miss corruption trail, showing how it won an unsolicited energy deal and dodged responsibility for the subsequent blowouts, by bribing influential people linked with the last BNP-led government. The company, having been floated only in 1987, was so desperate that it did not even hesitate to appoint a consultancy firm, owned by a Bangladeshi-born American, for $4 million to handle the dirty work in Bangladesh, according to evidence obtained by The Daily Star.

Everything changed as soon as twilight descended on Jagannath Hall of Dhaka University on March 25, 1971. A ghostly calm took hold

Amit Chakma was only three when the construction of Kaptai dam ended in 1962. The dam, meant to generate hydroelectric power,

With the ongoing transport strike intensifying and spreading across the country, a number of transport workers yesterday said they called the shutdown with full backing of some top leaders of their association.

The news of gas price hike caught Amanul Karim by surprise. It took him some time to grasp the details of the news report on the television on Thursday night.