Four students of Jahangirnagar University, including a leader of the university unit Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), were arrested today (February 4) for allegedly raping a woman on campus last night after confining her husband in Mir Mosharraf Hossain Hall. The incident, which took

The Canadian province of British Columbia will stop approvals of new colleges seeking to enroll international students until February 2026, the government of the Canadian province said on Monday. The province will set minimum language requirements at private training institutions and

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched a brand new multi-purpose disaster shelter and school building at Bogachotor Government Primary School in Cox’s Bazar. The new facility is one of 25 multi-purpose disaster shelters built in Cox’s

The government decides to hold Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations of this year will begin on February 15.  The examination will start with Bengali first paper. A total of 20 lakh 24 thousand 192 students of nine general, madrasa and technical boards

The Admission and Financial Aid office of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) organized the Orientation program for the incoming students of the Spring 2024 semester on January 18 at the university auditorium in the Bashundhara Residential Area in Dhaka.  Faruque Hassan,

Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh are working on establishing a new Arabic language institute in Dhaka, officials say, as they want it to follow the Kingdom’s teaching curriculum to help professionals prepare to work in the Middle East. Nearly 3 million Bangladeshis live and work in

More than 100 days of intense Israeli airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip have demolished schools and classrooms, displaced or killed teachers, and shuttered access to learning for the hundreds of thousands of children coping with daily horrors as education becomes the latest casualty

The education ministry today (January 24) formed a five-member committee to review the story namely ‘Sharifar Golpo’, in the seventh grade history and social science textbook. The committee will be led by Islamic Arabic University Vice Chancellor Professor Abdul Rashid,

Authorities in five districts of Khulna division closed all primary and secondary-level education institutions from today as the temperature dipped below 10 degree Celsius. The order will remain in force until further notice, according to the Department of Primary and Secondary

The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Sunday announced to hold cluster admission test for first-year undergraduate courses in GST (general, science, and technology) consisting of 24 universities under the academic session of 2023–24 on 8 March. The decision was taken in a

The 46th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) preliminary examination will be held on March 9 (Saturday).  Bangladesh Public Service Commission (BPSC) issued a press release in this regard on Thursday (January 18). According to the press release the examination will be held from 10

Estonian authorities arrested a professor with Russian citizenship on charges of allegedly spying for Russia, the Estonian media outlet ERR reported on January 16, citing information from Estonia's Internal Security Service (ISS). Estonia has long been concerned about undue

Speaking to reporters on Friday, on her first school visit as minister, Oudéa-Castera defended her decision to educate her three boys at the prestigious Stanislas school – a private Catholic institution in Paris – rather than in the public system. "Loads of

Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) has retained its spot as the leading private university in Bangladesh in the AD Scientific Index 2024 in terms of total number of citations of Scopus-indexed publications by faculty members.  IUB has also retained the second position among

The High Court (HC) in a judgment today (January 14) asked the government to appoint 285 physically challenged candidates, who have already passed the written tests, to the posts of primary school teachers under the quota system. HC division bench comprising Justice Naima Haider and

Claudine Gay, the first Black president of the prestigious US university Harvard, resigned from her position on Tuesday, citing personal threats and a "racial animus." Gay had come under fire after she was brought into a congressional hearing to answer questions on the

Ten faculty members of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) from non-engineering backgrounds have successfully completed the first ever computer programming training workshop for faculty members organized as part of the university’s unique “Coding for All”

The Textbooks Festival - distribution of free textbooks among school students for the 2024 academic year - is being celebrated across the country. The distribution of free textbooks kicks off in all the primary schools and high schools of the country with festive moods. Alongside

Bangladesh Public Service Commission (BPSC) has recommended 2,805 candidates of cadre and non-cadre through 43rd Bangladesh Civil Service (BSC) examination.  The BPSC published the results today (December 26) after holding a meeting in the afternoon. The meeting decided to

The admission test for the MBBS course in the country's government-run and private medical colleges for the academic year 2023-24 will be held on February 9 next year. The decision was taken during a meeting at the health ministry on Sunday with Health Minister Zahid Maleque in the