Mohiuddin Alamgir

Elections to 60 municipalities will take place today amid fears of further violence in many places.

The Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has detected financial anomalies in the Election Commission’s expenditure on paying many of its trainers ahead of the last parliamentary polls and upazila elections.

Eminent novelist Rabeya Khatun died in the capital yesterday afternoon.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said educational institutions will not reopen before the pandemic is contained.

When the Covid-19 outbreak led to a closure of educational institutions in late March, students, guardians and teachers alike speculated that the disruption would last a few months.

The government may defer next year’s Secondary School Certificate and Higher Secondary School Certificate examinations by three to four months due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The University Grants Commission now wants a uniform admission system for all private universities as the majority of public universities are set to introduce the new system next year.

The government is going to allow the private sector to import six lakh tonnes of rice with 25 percent duty to stabilise the rice market.

Twenty-four municipalities will go to polls today using Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) amid confusion among voters about uses of the machines.

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council yesterday extended a project to install prepaid gas meters in Dhaka households, which will see 1.2 lakh more prepaid connections by December 2022.

Bangladesh has moved up two notches in the Human Development Index this year, but remains behind four other South Asian countries.

Bangladesh moved up two notches in the Human Development Index -- to 133 -- compared to last year.

In a major development, 19 public universities announced the minimum requirement for appearing in the admission test and question patterns for what officials said would be the first-ever uniform admission test.

Teachers of Rajshahi University demanded immediate implementation of recent government orders, including relieving Prof Abdul Bari from the post of the university registrar.

Three years ago, the government undertook a project to preserve the sites bearing historic value of the Liberation War for future generations to learn about the country’s tumultuous birth.

Rajshahi University authorities would want to know from the education ministry the reasons for postponing all kinds of appointments to the university until further notice.

The government has asked Rajshahi University VC Prof M Abdus Sobhan to explain in seven working days why the appointments of his daughter and son-in-law to the university as teachers will not be cancelled.

They were the country’s leading intelligentsia who were the guiding light for Bangalees. These brightest sons and daughters of the soil were instrumental in the mass movements against the disparity and repressive measures of the Pakistani rulers and contributed to the 1971 Liberation War efforts.

Many public universities are in favour of holding semester exams for final year students to negate session jam and make students qualified for sitting in the upcoming BCS exams.

The government and the development partners plan to inject more money into the economy for its recovery amid the pandemic while the progress in implementing the stimulus packages for employment creation and revitalisation of the rural economy remains slow.