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Automatic promotion for HSC examinees

To cancel or not the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations was a most critical decision. Finally, the decision came in favour of cancellation. No such decision can please everyone, particularly when the possibility of a stigma of automatic pass is likely to stick to an entire batch of students. Importantly,...

Elusive higher education, jobs

It's no other person than the country's Prime Minister who has lately alerted the people to the coming 'second wave' of coronavirus. She has sounded the alarm on several occasions. Given the disruptions caused by the pandemic for over 8 months to almost every sector of the country, the spectre...

Protecting new extreme poor

The World Bank in its last projection painted a gloomier global poverty picture than it did in its earlier August report. The report fears, globally, the Covid-19 pandemic might cause between 88 million and 115 million new extreme poor to join the existing multitude. Here the extreme poor are those...

Why not refund HSC exam fees?

The government has recently decided not to hold the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations due to the pandemic situation. But it will considerall the HSC and equivalent candidates as having passed without actually appearing in those exams. Like 1.37 million other students, my son will pass the HSC...

Death penalty answer to rape?

It has been reported that the government is mulling over amending the existing law against rapists to include death penalty as the highest punishment. Understandably, such move followed the ongoing protests against the increasing number of rape incidents in the country and due to the demand from some people in...

Security of NRBs

It's nothing new that Bangladeshi people living in South Africa have been living in an insecure atmosphere. They are hijacked, their properties are looted, and they are even killed, according to media reports from time to time. A section of locals and some foreigners are allegedly involved in such criminal...

Careless walking along rail tracks!

Many people are killed and injured while walking along the railway crossings and rail tracks in different places including Dhaka city. Certain restrictions are maintained for movement of trains but there are people who hardly follow safety rules. Some people walk through the railway tracks absent-mindedly.A new dimension has also...