A private car displaying a sticker of the Ministry of Home Affairs was allegedly used to transport yaba, with three suspected drug traffickers arrested in Cox’s Bazar’s Ramu upazila. Law enforcement officials said 6,000 yaba tablets were recovered from a hidden compartment inside the vehicle’s dashboard during the operation. The arrest was made on Wednesday […]

Students demanding the resignation of the education minister took to the streets for the second consecutive day as part of their announced ‘Long March to the Education Ministry’ programme. However, tensions emerged among the protesters over their plan to enter the Secretariat, with disagreements reportedly turning into internal clashes. Allegations also surfaced that a number […]

A headteacher of a government primary school in Chuadanga has been named in a court case over allegations that she physically assaulted a young pupil during a school assembly, adding a new dimension to an incident that has already attracted widespread public attention across Bangladesh. The case has been filed against Kaberi Karim, headteacher of […]

Six representatives of protesting students entered Bangladesh’s Secretariat on Wednesday afternoon to present a revised six-point set of demands centred on Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations, dropping their earlier demand for the resignation of the Education Minister from the formal agenda for talks. The delegation left the area in front of the Education Building at […]

The government has announced special arrangements for students who were unable to attend the ongoing 2026 Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations because of severe weather, flooding and other unavoidable circumstances. It has also confirmed that all candidates will receive full marks for two faulty questions in the Physics First Paper examination, ensuring that […]

Protesting Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) candidates gathered outside the Education Building in Dhaka on Wednesday after marching towards the Ministry of Education, where they were met by a police barricade. The demonstrators continued their sit-in while chanting slogans demanding the resignation of Education Minister A N M Ehsanul Haque Milon, insisting that he had lost […]