Wasim Bin Habib

Academic activities in public schools, colleges and universities are being badly affected as teachers continue their protest over the new pay scale, but the government has yet to take any visible measure to diffuse the unrest.

The ongoing teachers' movement over the new pay scale is disrupting academic activities at public educational institutions, especially at university and college levels. Teachers yesterday staged fresh protests at several universities over the finance minister's remark on their movement, demanding that AMA Muhith withdraw his remark in 24 hours.

After failing to keep its electoral pledge to eradicate illiteracy from the country by 2014, the government seems unlikely to meet by this year the Millennium Development Goal of hundred percent literacy of the population above 15 years.

At first glance, it looks like the entrance of a tunnel.

Although the government has completed the second phase of the class XI admission, more than 2 lakh students could not yet get admitted to any college,

UU Laboratory College, an institution in Uttara's Azampur, took approval from the authorities around six years ago, but never enrolled any student. As a

The cost of education in private universities, private medical and engineering colleges might go up if the finance minister's proposal to levy 10 percent VAT on them goes through parliament.

Although the budgetary allocation to the education sector rises every year, it is still inadequate for ensuring quality education.

After a six-year uptrend, the SSC results this year show a significant drop in pass rates and the number of GPA-5 achievers, which is largely blamed on political unrest and students' not performing as expected in mathematics.

April 24 -- a day that the survivors of Rana Plaza collapse find too difficult to forget as the day turned their world upside down.

Anjuara Begum made her way through a crowd with small steps towards the piles of the debris-strewn disaster site in Savar. She

Shahnaz Begum is numb from the shock of her husband's death just three days ago. Yet the thought of the future of her two minor children sends shudders down her spine, unsettling her.

Court officials cannot tell when a gold smuggler was punished last time. What they can tell though that there is no such instance in the past 10 years. This, they say, has contributed to the recent surge in the smuggling of the yellow metal.

More than 1,000kg of gold worth around Tk 450 crore was seized in the last one year by Customs Intelligence and other agencies.

Gold smuggling has gone remarkably up of late. Big haul of the most-sought-after metal makes headline all too frequently.

Many of the government officials working on food safety are corrupt, observed Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan, general secretary of the Consumers Association of Bangladesh.