DHAKA: The preliminary test of the 36th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) will be held on Friday (January 8) with participation of 2.15 lakh job seekers.The test will be held from 9:30am to 11:30am at 162 centers in Dhaka, Rajshahi, Chittagong, Khulna, Barisal, Sylhet and Rangpur

DHAKA: Bangladesh Public Service Commission (BPSC) has imposed ban on carrying all kinds of electronic devices including wristwatch, calculator, mobile phone sets in 36th BCS Preliminary test on January 8.BPSC issued a notice in this regard on Sunday. It reads, the authorities concerned

DHAKA: Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid Friday said though Bangladesh not a rich country, its children are not poor at all in terms of education. He said this while addressing a book distribution program at Government Laboratory School in city this morning marking ‘Textbook Festival

DHAKA: Amid festivity, the government has distributed a total of 333,762,772-crore textbooks among around 44,416,728-crore students from class-I to class-IX across the country on Friday (January 1).Education minister Nurul Islam Nahid inaugurated Textbook Festival Day 2016’ at

CHITTAGONG: The authorities of Chittagong University (CU) has been suspended 20 students temporarily for torturing female students, suspected militancy link, creating unstable situation on the campus.The information was revealed in a press briefing at proctor office of the varsity on

DHAKA: As many as 98.52 percent students have passed in the Primary Education Completion (PEC) and Ebtedayee examinations this year.Besides, 92.31 percent of students in the Junior School Certificate (JSC) and 92.46 percent in the Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations have passed

DHAKA: The results of Primary Education Completion (PEC), Ibtedayee, Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations have been handed over to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday morning.Chairmen of respective education boards handed over the results

DHAKA: As many as 98.52 percent students have passed in the Primary Education Completion (PEC) examination this year.Of those, 98.74 percent passed in Dhaka Division while 99 percent in Rajshahi, 98.97 percent in Khulna, 98.41 percent in Chittagong, 98.30percent in Barisal, 96.79 in

DHAKA: The results of Primary School Certificate (PSC), Ibtedayee, Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations are set to be published on Thursday (December 31).Education minister Nurul Islam Nahid and primary & mass communication minister Mostafizur

DHAKA: The results of Primary School Certificate (PSC), Ibtedayee and Junior School Certificate (JSC) will be published on Thursday (December 31).Education minister Nurul Islam Nahid and primary & mass communication minister Mostafizur Rahman will hand over the results to Prime Minister

DHAKA: Teachers of schools and colleges under the government’s MPO (monthly pay order) coverage will get their enhanced salary as per eighth national pay scale from July 1. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid made the disclosure to journalists at his secretariat office Sunday.Teachers

RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY: The authority of Rajshahi University (RU) has cancelled the opportunity of taking part in the honors admission test for the second time.RU Registrar Professor Entajul Haque told Banglanews that the decision was taken in an academic council’s meeting on Saturday

KUSHTIA (Islamic University): The authorities of Islamic University (IU) of Kushtia district closed the varsity on Saturday as two groups of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) locked into a clash.The IU administration came up with the decision after holding a meeting around 2:00pm.The

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate a two-day book festival at Ganabhaban in city on December 31 (Thursday).Education ministry deputy secretary Subodh Chandra Dhali confirmed the matter to the media on Thursday.He said the government will distribute more than 34-crore

DHAKA: The results of Primary School Certificate (PSC), Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations are set to be published on Tuesday (December 31).Directorate of Primary Education director general M Alamgir informed the matter of banglanews on

DHAKA: The embassy of the Republic of Korea in Dhaka is continuously assisting to improve the information and educational environment of the ‘Korea Corner’ in central library of Dhaka University (DU) to enhance knowledge about Korea.This ‘Korea Corner’ is playing a strong role as

DHAKA: Dhaka University (DU) vice-chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique announced that the university has severed all sorts of relations with Pakistan.He made the announcement at a press conference on Monday afternoon.The VC further said the decision had earlier taken in a syndicate meeting of

DHAKA: The logo of Science Olympiad-2016 was unveiled at the office of ATN Bangla, a Bangla digital cable television channel, in city Monday with the view to encourage students to study science.First Security Bank Ltd managing director Syed Wasiq Mohammad Ali, additional managing director

DHAKA: Education minister Nurul Islam Nahid said that books of different classes will be distributed to the students across the country on January 2.He told the media that the ‘book festival’ will be celebrated across the country on January 2 as January 1 is a holiday.The minister

DHAKA: The results of Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations will be published within December 28-30.Inter-education board has placed a proposal for publishing the results to the education ministry.Inter-education board coordination sub-committee