Hossen Sohel: The cabinet yesterday approved the draft of a new law recognizing the highest qualifications offered by Qawmi madrasas as equivalent to general education post-graduation degrees. The law will recognize Qawmi Madrasa Hadith (Taqmil) Level as equivalent to master’s degree (Islamic Studies and Arabic), reports Bdnews24.com. “We have been recognizing them (Qawmi qualifications) but…
The USA Today: A strong aftershock has shaken the island of Lombok where tens of thousands of people are homeless after a powerful earthquake. School children in Bali could be seen fleeing their classrooms as the island felt the tremor from neighboring Lombok. JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) – The death toll from the earthquake that…
Bdnews24: Bangladesh has signed a $510 million financing agreement with the World Bank to enhance the quality and effectiveness of the secondary education system. “This will benefit 13 million students studying in grades 6-12,” the World Bank said in a statement on Monday. Kazi Shofiqul Azam, secretary of Economic Relations Division, and Rajashree Paralkar, acting…
M Humayun Kabir: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the relation between Bangladesh and India has now reached a newer height as both the countries duly value each other.The premier came up with the observation when State Executive Member and Adviser to President BJP, West Bengal of India Dr Anindya Gopal Mitra met her at her…
Desk Report: Academics and experts have urged the village people to boost commercial sheep rearing, reports Financial Express. They said it would meet the nutritional demand besides providing valuable wool for expediting the huge opportunity of wool-based textile. The observation came at the closing and certificate-giving ceremony of a sheep farming training course on Narkelbaria…
Kabir Humayun: Actr-ess Quazi Nawshaba Ahmed was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) yesterday afternoon after she fell ill. Nawshaba , who is on remand in a case filed under the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act, was admitted to DMCH around 3:30pm as she was feeling ill, DMP Deputy Commissioner (Media) Masudur Rahman…
Desk Report: The government has nationalised 271 private colleges across the country, raising the number of public colleges and equivalent educational institutions to 598, reports Financial Express. The Education Ministry issued an order in this regard on Sunday. The order came into effect from August 8, reports UNB. According to bdnews24.com, the government had pledged…
BBC: Our primate cousins have surprised and impressed scientists in recent years, with revelations about monkeys’ tool-using abilities and chimps’ development of complex sign language. But researchers are still probing the question: why are we humans the only apes that can talk?That puzzle has now led to an insight into how different non-human primates’ brains…
Russia Today: Belarusian athlete Volha Mazuronak claimed European championship gold in the women’s marathon race on Sunday overcoming a horrendous nosebleed that caught her flat-footed just 30 minutes after the start. The pre-race favourite Mazuronak was forced to run almost a quarter of a 42km distance trying to stop bleeding which only increased due to…
BBC: It was a research station on the side of a volcano, 4,000 metres above sea level, that picked up the key signal: despite an international ban, someone, somewhere, was emitting an ozone-damaging pollutant. Stephen Montzka of the US’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) was the first to notice. He had been analysing data…