India's Modi-led NDA government has made clear there is no prospect of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigning, sources tell NDTV, as NEET paper-leak protests led by the Cockroach Janata Party continue.
Several Bollywood stars have begun speaking out on India's continuing student protests over the NEET paper leak; actress Alia Bhatt voiced support for the protesters on social media.
Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar has weighed in on the paper-leak protests across India, calling for a transparent system in which no student feels their hard work has gone unrewarded.
A police driver at Kishoreganj Sadar Model Police Station, sent to an accident scene, had to recover the body of his own 10-year-old son, killed when a cement-laden truck ran over him.
Protesters say Indian law-enforcement used pellet guns to break up a Cockroach Janata Party demonstration at Jantar Mantar; a government hospital's records note pellet injuries, but Delhi Police call the claim baseless.
A fourth-grade schoolboy was killed in a road accident in Kishoreganj; the police constable who went to recover the body found it was his own 10-year-old son.
Five more children have died with measles symptoms across Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services said, with 1,137 people newly affected in the same period.
Government primary schools in Rajshahi division have lost about 1 lakh 37 thousand pupils in a dozen years while kindergartens and private primaries have grown, in a shift analysts read as a change in…
Months after a missile hit the Shajare Tayyebe primary school in Minab, southern Iran, killing 156 people including 120 children, a surviving teacher and bereaved families describe what happened.
Students and young people from across India have travelled overnight to Jantar Mantar for the Cockroach Janata Party's protest over exam paper leaks — some slipping away from home without telling their families.
The Cockroach Janata Party has called peaceful protests across India on Friday over the NEET paper leak and other issues, renewing its demand for the education minister's resignation as its Delhi sit-in grows.
IIT Madras has told students to remove social-media posts and videos backing the Delhi student movement, a student said, after several posted Instagram videos in solidarity with the Jantar Mantar protest.
A video posted by the Mumbai Congress shows a uniformed policeman telling detained students he will plant drugs on them if they return to the protests; Mumbai police have announced an inquiry.
Cockroach Janata Party chief Abhijit Deepak said it took Prime Minister Narendra Modi 34 days to admit the paper leak, calling the silence “shameful” and accusing the government of still protecting the education minister.
A Cumilla tribunal sentenced Mofizul Islam Mofu to death for the rape and murder of a third-grade schoolgirl in 2024, concluding the trial in 19 working days, the prosecutor said.
Khulna University students detained a canteen worker over allegations that a mobile phone was secretly placed in the women's washroom at Bijoy '24 Hall, causing alarm across the hall; the provost says an inquiry…
Health Minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Hossain announced a “home-to-home health screening” programme to detect serious illness early, to be run by 100,000 health workers — 80 percent of them women.
The Public Service Commission published the 50th BCS written results on Thursday, with 6,165 candidates passing — seven days ahead of schedule. Viva voce begins August 11.
Khulna University students halted all academic and administrative activity and padlocked buildings after a canteen worker was detained over allegations of secretly filming in a women's hall washroom; the provost says an inquiry is…
Supporters across India — and from abroad — are ordering food and drinks through Swiggy and Zomato and asking delivery riders to hand them out free to the protesters at Jantar Mantar, delivery workers…
Bollywood actor and MP Kangana Ranaut drew anger from protesters after saying who holds office cannot be decided by pressuring the government through demonstrations, and that parliament is the proper forum for such debate.
Information Minister Zahir Uddin Swapan told a Jagannath University seminar that Bangladeshi nationalism is an inclusive civic identity embracing every language, religion and ethnic group within the country's borders.
Ten people, including five schoolchildren, were injured when a motorcycle lost control and hit pupils crossing the road outside a secondary school in Chougacha, Jashore, police said.
Bangladesh Open University's 2026 HSC programme exams begin nationwide on Friday, July 24, at 216 centres, with 47,041 candidates sitting across the first and second years.
The High Court has summoned two former directors general of the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education for defying a court order, directing them to appear and explain on August 12.
Allegations have surfaced that former Barishal City Corporation mayor Serniabat Khokon Abdullah left the country with about 16 crore taka as the Awami League government fell, later routing it abroad through hundi; the ACC…
Police recovered the body of a Barishal University student from a mess room near the campus on Tuesday night. The cause of death will be determined after an autopsy, police said.
Six more children died with measles symptoms in the past 24 hours, taking the toll since March 15 to 803, as 133 new confirmed cases and 1,037 hospitalizations were recorded, the health directorate said.
Jashore's Ad-din Children's Hospital has provided low-cost care to 725,000 children over 22 years — 610,000 as outpatients and 115,000 admitted — earning particular praise for treating newborns and malnourished children.
Amid student protests over a medical-exam paper leak, Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal sharply attacked PM Narendra Modi, warning against threats, as Delhi Police filed five FIRs over Monday's clashes.
The drama club of University of Creative Technology, Chattogram staged Humayun Ahmed's classic play 'Nimful' to mark the death anniversary of the legendary writer and filmmaker, with students performing to an engaged audience.
Indian PM Narendra Modi called for building a foolproof public-examination system amid protests over a medical-entrance paper leak, after a youth-led “Cockroach” movement's march on Parliament ended in clashes that left about 180 injured.
Rail links between Rajshahi and the rest of the country were restored after an eight-hour blockade by Rajshahi University students, once authorities agreed to their demands and suspended a ticket examiner accused of assaulting…
Dhaka University has decided to waive the tuition fees of students injured in the July uprising, a decision taken at a June 22 syndicate meeting, as it marks the movement's second anniversary with month-long…
Jahangirnagar University temporarily expelled eight physics students of the 54th batch over allegations of mentally abusing and intimidating new students, after the incident surfaced on social media.
Police recovered the body of a nine-year-old schoolgirl about 11 hours after she went missing in Kaliganj, Satkhira, and an enraged crowd then beat to death a woman suspected in the case; police say…
The Education Ministry has returned the power to recommend hiring of non-teaching staff at MPO-listed private institutions to their managing committees, cancelling a 2025 circular that had given the role to deputy-commissioner-led committees.
The funeral of Parichhan Nesa, 91, mother of Rajshahi University student Ayub Ali — whom Islami Chhatra Shibir describes as its third martyr — was held Tuesday in Alamdanga, with Jamaat and Shibir leaders…
A social-media notice claiming the HSC exam schedule has changed is fake and motivated, the Inter-Education Board Examination Coordination Committee said, urging students and guardians to rely only on official channels.
Students of Government Titumir College protested demanding hall fees be cut from 8,000 to 6,000 taka, calling the administration's 200-taka reduction a “mockery,” and also demanded the principal's resignation.
Parents and teachers at a government primary school in Sreepur, Gazipur, allege that the headteacher rented out the school field to store a factory's construction materials, leaving the ground pitted and unusable and halting…
The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education has directed all educational institutions to form sports management committees for the Prime Minister's Gold Cup national football tournament 2026.
The Technical Education Board has directed technical institutions not to use Prime Minister Tarique Rahman's photo on banners, festoons or billboards for government events, following a Cabinet Division circular.
Iran's supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei has warned of an 'unforgettable lesson' for the United States as strikes continue for an eighth day, with Iran's health ministry reporting at least 50 killed since the fighting…
The three-domed 'Jamadar Mosque' at Kayemkola in Jashore, said to date to the mid-18th century, is the village's most important historical monument — but salinity damage has prompted calls for state conservation.
MPO-listed madrasa teachers and staff are to be paid salaries and allowances by EFT. The Directorate of Madrasah Education has ordered online records corrected first.
The Inter-Education Board is preparing to publish the SSC and equivalent results targeting 20 July, but no specific final date has yet been announced, the Dhaka board chairman said; 18,57,344 students sat the exams…
Jihua Zhang, a professor at China's Shandong University and a visiting teacher in Chittagong University's oceanography department, has married a CU student after converting to Islam and taking the name Al Amin.
The Primary and Mass Education Ministry has revised its rules for transferring and posting government primary-school teachers, scrapping the disputed 'notable person' provision and adding seven new transfer conditions.
NCP chief coordinator Nasiruddin Patwary said students protesting over exam-centre hardship are not seeking auto-pass or exam cancellation, and that tagging and harassing them politically shames a democratic state, urging the government to talk…
Millions of students await this year's SSC and equivalent results, which will be published soon; preparations may take about another week, the Inter-Education Board Coordination Committee said.
Former Dhaka University Chhatra Shibir president and DUCSU VP Sadiq Kayem said destructive politics would never be allowed to return to the campus, speaking after a 'Catch the League' marathon marking 'Terrorism Resistance Day'.
A feature on the long tradition of Bangladesh's Islamic scholars in humanitarian work — from free madrasa education for orphans to disaster relief by foundations such as As-Sunnah — and the case for making…
A feature on how Islam frames natural disasters — through patience, repentance, practical preparation, standing by the afflicted, resisting rumour and profiteering, and long-term rehabilitation — as a shared responsibility of the whole society.
Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir marked 'Terrorism Resistance Day' at Dhaka University with a 'Catch the League' marathon and a three-day photo exhibition, 'July in Blood', recalling the 2024 expulsion of the Chhatra League from…
A discussion meeting, along with prayers, marking 'July Martyrs' Day 2026' was held with due solemnity in Chougacha of Jashore, where the father of local July martyr Al Amin was honoured by the upazila…
The US military will screen troops aged 30 and above for testosterone deficiency as part of their annual health check, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth says, with optional hormone-replacement therapy for those found to have…
An eighth-grade schoolgirl drowned while bathing in a stream in Madati union of Kaliganj upazila in Lalmonirhat on Thursday; her body was recovered after about two hours, police say.
Amid student protests, road blockades and rallies over HSC exams held in bad weather and errors in the physics question paper, Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed said some quarters were trying to embarrass the government…
The Bangladesh Technical Education Board has granted 654 private independent technical institutions permission to run lower-secondary (vocational) classes six through eight, and asked institutions that have not yet collected their permission letters to complete…