NEARLY 13,587 students of 434 NGO-run primary schools in the district are yet to get textbooks though their distribution among the students of 690 government, registered and community primary schools is now at the final stage.
   The students of the NGO-run primary school need 41,064 copies of textbook.
   An official of the Natore District Primary Education office said distribution of textbooks among the students of the NG0-supervised primary school would start soon after the completion of survey of these institutions.
   There are 403 government primary schools, 250 registered primary schools, 35 community primary schools and 434-NGO run primary schools at six upazilas in Natore.
   Meanwhile, the Moulvibazar correspondent of New Age adds: About 36,000 copies of textbooks on different subjects are yet to be distributed among the primary school students in Moulvibazar.
   Sources in the department of primary education in Moulvibazar said that the demand of textbooks for nearly 2,50,000 primary school students of 900 primary schools in the district is 6,72,885 copies. Of this, 6,35,889 copies have already been distributed among the students since the distribution started on January 10.
   Some 12,806 copies of mathematics textbook have so far been supplied to the students of class five as against the demand of 26,342. Besides mathematics, the supply of textbooks on English is also far short of the demand, according to the sources.
   Some guardians of students alleged that different libraries have been selling textbooks at high prices violating the rules. These textbooks are meant to be distributed among the primary school students free of cost.
   They further said that important pages were missing from many of the old and used textbooks which were supplied to the students. Distribution of old and used textbooks with missing pages has frustrated the tender hearted primary school children, they noted.
   A primary school teacher said there is a provision for the distribution of 50 per cent new textbooks and 50 per cent old and used textbooks among the primary school students.
   The district primary officer said the rest of the books would be distributed soon.

A MADRASSAH teacher was stabbed to death by his elder brother following a land dispute at village Ganeshyampur under Mymensingh sadar upazila on Friday noon.
   The deceased was Shamim, 30, inhabitant of the village.
   Local people said there was a longstanding dispute between Shamim and his elder brother Golam Mostafa over sharing of their paternal land property.
   Distinguished villagers time and again tried to settle the dispute amicably but failed. On the fateful day during a family meeting over the issue the two brothers locked in an altercation and at one stage Mostafa stabbed Shamim indiscriminately leaving him critically injured.
   Locals took Shamim to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital where he died.
   A case was registered and the police arrested Golam Mostafa in this connection.

THE police arrested two fugitive convicts from Shubhapur bus stand in the Comilla town on Thursday night.
   Tipped-off, the police arrested Abid Ali and Neyamatullah of village Raipur under the upazila.
   The police said the convicts were members of the Patuya Bahini, a highway robbers’ gang. They were jailed for 10 years in criminal cases.

A HOUSEWIFE committed suicide at village Alishahashpur of Fatepur union under Nachole upazila of Chapainawabganj on Thursday night.
   According to the police and locals, Jannatun Ferdous, 20, took poison after her husband, Jewel Ahmed, had scolded her for not bearing any baby during their about four year’s conjugal life.
   The body was sent to hospital morgue for a post-mortem examination. A UD case was registered with the police.