Hossen Sohel of DOT The pass rate for this year’s eighth grade Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations is 85.83 percent, reports bdnews24.com. This year 68,095 students have received a GPA 5.0. The pass rate has increased 2.18 percentage points from last year, but the number of students who received a…
Andrew Hammond, Associate at LSE IDEAS at the London School of Economics/Gulf News If the crisis escalates, there will be pressure to toughen western sanctions on Moscow United Kingdom Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson visited Ukraine on Friday and told Kiev that it does not stand alone during the current high tensions with Russia, which continues…
DOT Desk Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday put emphasis on modern technology-based education to build hunger- and poverty-free prosperous Bangladesh, reports The Daily Star. “We’ve set our goal to make the country prosperous. To make that happen, I always think it’s only education that can lead the country towards prosperity,” she said. The Prime…
DOT Desk BNP’s candidate for Shariatpur-3, Miah Nuruddin Apu was attacked yesterday during his election campaign in the area and left in a “critical state”, reports The Daily Star. He was campaigning in Gosairhat Upazila this afternoon when unidentified assailants pounced on him, a close associate said. Apu is being taken to Dhaka for better…
Robyn J. Whitaker, Senior Lecturer in New Testament, Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity/The Conversation, Australia Dear tiny Jesus, with your golden fleece diapers, with your tiny little fat balled-up fists … Dear 8 pound 6 ounce newborn infant Jesus, don’t even know a word yet, just a little infant so cuddly … So goes…
Tanzina Tanin of DOT Security analyst Major general AK Mohammed Ali Shikder said that it has turned into a matter of international concern that Jamaat is participating in election with “Dhaaner shish” which is the symbol of BNP. A proposal has been made in the US congress to ban Jamaat as a terrorist organization….
Hindustan Times : Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday said he will “show” the Narendra Modi government “how to treat minorities”, amid a controversy over Bollywood actor Naseeruddin Shah’s remarks on mob violence in India. Shah finds himself at the centre of a major controversy over his remarks on the spate of mob lynching…
Abrar Hussain of DOT: The death toll from a volcano-triggered tsunami in Indonesia has risen to 222, with more than 800 people injured, officials said yesterday. “222 people are dead, 843 people are injured and 28 people are missing,” according to a statement by Indonesia’s national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho. “This number is…
Pratiti Shirin writes for DOT : A recent survey carried out by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) revealed that in Dhaka, 70 per cent of divorces are initiated by women. The same report also found out that divorce rates almost doubled while separation tripled in the last decade. Some of the common reasons are…
Wion News : Pakistani Christian Asia Bibi will celebrate Christmas under guard, despite being cleared of the blasphemy charges that kept her in jail since 2010. Bibi — a former labourer who was on death row for eight years — remains a prime target in conservative Muslim-majority Pakistan, with extremists calling for her blood and…