Used textbooks hamper studies of 80 lakh primary students
Recycled books have pages missing,
exercises filled in
About 80 lakh Class III, IV and V students face problems in their studies as a half of the textbooks they have been given are used, by students of previous years, and often have pages torn and exercises filled in. The government provides every academic year each of the students with three used and three new textbooks to save resources. Many students even receive more used than new textbooks, said some primary schoolteachers...[ + ]
British govt wants emergency to go
for democracy
The visiting British foreign secretary, David Miliband, on Friday stressed lifting of the state of emergency in Bangladesh, saying a fully functioning democracy does not operate under emergency. ‘I will be exploring with ministers (advisers) over the next 36 hours discussing more widely how we can ensure as soon as possible Bangladesh becomes a full functioning democracy bringing all the benefits to the people,’ he told reporters after a meeting with the foreign adviser, Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury...[ + ]
Juba Dal secy Alal arrested, remanded
in custody
Former BNP lawmaker Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal was on Friday remanded in police custody for two days hours after his arrest at Lalmatia in Dhaka on charges of breaching the emergency rules. The police produced Alal, also the general secretary of the party’s youth front Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal, in the chief metropolitan magistrate’s court seeking him to be remanded for three days for interrogation...[ + ]
Detained DCC commissioner
dies in hospital
BNP demands probe into death
Mohammad Quayyum Khan, a detained ward commissioner of Dhaka City Corporation and city BNP leader, died at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Friday. Dhaka Central Jail wardens took him to the hospital in the morning after he had fainted in the prison toilet. ‘His condition was very much critical and we referred him to the medicine ward immediately,’ said emergency medical officer Dr Shamse Ara Sweety...[ + ]
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