While schools are primarily responsible for facilitating schooling activities for the students, there are other factors as well that play crucial roles in ensuring the best learning experiences. Community partnership is one of them.

On the occasion of International Literacy Day, proclaimed by the United Nations in 1966, there will be pronouncements with much fanfare about the vital role of literacy in national development and the progress that has been made.

When you first read it, it may seem like something scripted for the silver screen: the story of a Bangladeshi woman who is struck by an awful tragedy—her 17-year-old daughter lured away by traffickers and forced to work in a brothel in India.

As Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla was wrapping up his talks with senior US officials in Washington on the evolving situation in Afghanistan,

A syndicate of bureaucrats, politicians and officials of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) in Cox’s Bazar have systematically siphoned off Tk 78 crore in public money from three development projects.

Saying that government officials’ anger towards the general public  or misbehaving with them is tantamount to corruption, State Minister for  Public Administration Farhad Hossain yesterday said public servants’  attitudes represent those of the government.

The government is working on a programme that aims at providing basic literacy knowledge to 50 lakh people aged 15 and above and skill development training to five lakh of them.

Jamuna Group has retracted its plan to invest in Evaly after analysing the beleaguered e-commerce platform’s assets and liabilities and business strategy, said a top official of Jamuna Group yesterday.

India had opened a meaningful dialogue with China and the USA, as with many other countries, on the Bangladesh issue. Some significant developments were expected soon after Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s visit to the USA.

Cuba on Monday became the first country in the world to vaccinate children from the age of two against Covid-19, using home-grown jabs not recognized by the World Health Organization.

Myanmar’s shadow government, formed by opponents of military rule, called for a revolt against the junta yesterday, setting out a strategy that included action by armed militias and ethnic forces and urging bureaucrats to leave their posts.

Sawano’s works have been featured in various pieces of media.

Mobile courts assisted by Rab members fined 205 traders across the country Tk 97.28 lakh for producing and storing adulterated or sub-standard food in an unhygienic environment.

Suspended police inspector Liaqat Ali shot Major (retd) Sinha Rashed Khan and then former officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das confirmed Sinha was dead, an eye witness today told the court in Cox’s Bazar.

Over 2000 cases were recorded in just seven days of September indicating the fast-rising trend of the disease.

Judgment in a case filed against journalist Probir Sikdar, under Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act, 2006, will be delivered tomorrow.

Tidal surge has marooned nearly five thousand families of 100 villages under six upazilas of Patuakhali.

Fifty-six people died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8am today, said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Bangladesh’s Information Minister Hasan Mahmud today met Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in New Delhi, during which they discussed bilateral cooperation “progressing steadily across all domains and media and public perceptions in that regard.”

More than 42 million old vehicle tyres dumped in Kuwait's sands have started to be recycled, as the Gulf state tackles a waste problem that created one of the world's largest tyre graveyards.