Pneumonia surge fills Chuadanga hospital, 556 children in 22-bed ward
Weather swings have driven a sharp rise in childhood respiratory illness, with patients treated on floors and corridors as just two doctors handle hundreds of daily cases.
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Education Desk, page 5
997 reports translated from the Bengali original, most recent first. বাংলা সংস্করণ
2 friends killed in motorcycle crash after exams, day out
Nine friends were riding three motorcycles back home in Kurigram when two of the bikes collided, leaving two of them dead and several injured.
200 school students missing in Nepal floods
Nepal's education ministry says 19 schools were damaged in the worst-hit districts, with roughly 20 students swept away and one school bus lost to the floodwaters.
HSC exam after Ramadan: education minister
Ehsanul Haque Milon says moving the exam earlier would have left students without enough time to review before sitting it.
Nepal headmaster's quick thinking saves 900 students
Rajendra Dawadi evacuated Tribhuvan Trishuli Secondary School just 10 minutes before floodwaters hit, after four separate warning calls convinced him to act.
Best-teacher selection to use 14 criteria, medals and awards planned
DSHE says the criteria, ordered by PM Tareque Rahman, weigh everything from subject knowledge and classroom technology use to campus cleanliness.
Russian attacks destroy more than 10 million books in Ukraine
A missile strike flattened a Kyiv-area printing house mid-run on 1.3 million new school textbooks, part of a wider campaign against Ukraine's publishing industry.
SSC, Dakhil exams to share common question papers
The Madrasah Education Board has aligned Dakhil-level subject codes with the general SSC stream, effective from the 2027 Dakhil examination.
No bachelor's degree, yet appointed Rajshahi University registrar
A former pro-vice-chancellor and the outgoing registrar both say seniority and qualification rules were bypassed to install A H M Aslam Hossain in the post.
National University Honours final results out today
Vice Chancellor A S M Amanullah says releasing the 2024 results this quickly will be a record for the university.
PM's Gold Cup: order issued to prepare football grounds
DSHE wants five football-ready pitches in every upazila ahead of a September 10 nationwide tournament expected to draw roughly 50,000 school teams.
Victoria College again tops list of exam-cheating cases
Cumilla's Victoria College and Government Women's College each had 10 students punished in National University Honours third-year exams, part of 287 total penalties.
Cabinet forms special committee to ease student visa process
Education Minister A N M Ehsanul Haque Milon says a teacher-exchange program with China will also launch within one to one and a half months.
Dakhil 9th grade registration begins September 6
The Madrasah Education Board's online e-SIF process runs through late September, with fees, data entry and final submission on separate deadlines.
Good news for students who failed the SSC exam
Adviser Mahdi Amin says a special policy will route failed students toward technical training and entrepreneurship support, calling this year's ungraced results genuine.
Chhatra Shibir favors reforming, not banning, student politics
President Nurul Islam Saddam told Chittagong University students the group wants a campus code of conduct, not an end to political organizing.
Nationwide school feeding program to launch in 2027 academic year
State Minister Bobby Hajjaj says the timeline could slip slightly if the ongoing pilot reveals problems, but the program will still launch within 2027.
Chhatra Shibir protests 14-year disappearance of two IU students
Marking International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, marchers demanded the whereabouts of Waliullah and Al Muqaddas and accountability from the university.
7 universities announce admission test dates
Dhaka, Khulna and MIST will hold tests in December, while Rajshahi, Jagannath, Chittagong and KUET follow in January and February 2027.
Habiganj Medical College fight leaves 8 students expelled
One student's eye was nearly destroyed in an August 19 dormitory brawl; the college's academic council approved punishments ranging up to a seven-year expulsion.
Army chief stresses ethics and integrity
Gen. Waker-uz-Zaman inaugurated three new buildings at BUP's western campus, saying a university's real success lies in shaping responsible human resources.
Journalist attacked by mob in Jhenaidah's Maheshpur
Shamim Osman was assaulted with hockey sticks and pipes after filming an altercation at a football match, leaving him with a head wound requiring seven stitches.
What the law minister said on the Mecca agreement and India
Md Asaduzzaman said the government will weigh all factors before deciding on the Mecca agreement, and that India and Bangladesh will each follow their own foreign policy.
Nepal flood: school swept away, 8-year-old boy survives by climbing a tree
The 8-year-old survived by hiding in a mountain forest and climbing a tree, and was reunited with his mother days later with help from a Reuters journalist.
US tightens rules on international student internships
The Trump administration warns universities they could lose authorization to enroll foreign students over expanded curricular-training approvals; UCLA and UC Berkeley have paused some applications.
Drug influx from neighboring countries a plot to rob nation of talent: water resources minister
Md Shahiuddin Chowdhury Annie told a Lakshmipur reception for top scorers that prioritizing education is key to freeing society from decay.
After a century of failure, success in cancer vaccine
A personalized mRNA vaccine from Moderna and Merck has shown promise in a late-stage melanoma trial, the first therapeutic cancer vaccine to do so.
Power shortage to ease next summer: state minister
Anindya Islam Amit says solar incentives should push output to at least 3,000 megawatts before summer, and warned his own party against interfering in schools.
2 more die of dengue, 996 new hospitalizations
The health directorate says Dhaka division accounted for the largest share of the new admissions in the past 24 hours.
France bans student mobile phone use in high schools
The nationwide rule takes effect September 1, though enforcement details will vary by school under France's new law.
Budget allocation to consider university rankings: UGC chairman
Prof. Dr. Mamun Ahmed says a domestic ranking system, alongside international benchmarks, is being developed for universities.
Two journalists attacked, phones snatched while filming exam malpractice in Gangni
Journalists Rabbi and S.M. Tariq say a group led by a college teacher attacked them and held them in a room for nearly an hour at Kajipur Degree College.
Women's development will move the country forward: social welfare minister
Dr. A.Z.M. Zahid Hossain distributed roughly 15 million taka in welfare grants and bicycles for girl students in Ghoraghat, Dinajpur.
Free eye camp treats 5,000 people in Bogura
The Al-Basar International Foundation camp, backed by the Ziaur Rahman Foundation, identified 500 cataract patients for free surgery.
17,280 dengue cases so far this month
The Directorate General of Health Services reported 342 new hospitalizations in the past 24 hours, with no new deaths in that period.
Two journalists attacked, phones snatched while filming exam malpractice in Gangni
Journalists Rabbi and S.M. Tariq say a group led by a college teacher attacked them and held them in a room for nearly an hour at Kajipur Degree College.
Two confess to strangling teacher, family of three in Rangpur
Police say the suspects killed retired teacher Ganapati Chakraborty and his wife, daughter and 12-year-old son after he caught them using drugs on the roof.
From BCS cadre to compost: one farmer's integrated agriculture bet
Ekhtiar Uddin Ahmed Munna left a secure banking career to build MM Agro, a Kishoreganj farm where fish, cattle, poultry and vermicompost feed into each other.
Khoksa school holds anti-drug, anti-eve-teasing awareness meeting
Police OC Molla Zakir Hossain told students and guardians at Moragachha Secondary School that preventing these crimes takes a shared community effort.
84 Palestinian schools face demolition threat
The UN says schools serving roughly 13,000 students in the West Bank's Area C and East Jerusalem are under demolition or stop-work orders.
Holy Cross College bars married students, TC issued if one weds
The Tejgaon college's 11th-grade admission notice for 2026-27 says married applicants need not apply.
Dakhil 8th-grade scholarship exam form-fill begins September 2
The Madrasah Education Board says the process runs through September 12, with a total fee of 600 taka per examinee.
Snake scare at Education Ministry
Officials suspect more snakes may be hiding in storage after three were spotted on the 19th floor of the Secretariat, an unusual sighting for Dhaka.
‘Home minister condescends in parliament — we didn’t come here to be his students’
Leader of the Opposition Dr. Shafiqur Rahman accused Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed of talking down to lawmakers since the session began.
96% oppose political leaders on school managing committees
A Dainik Shiksha survey backs Deputy Speaker Kaiser Kamal's call to bar party leaders from school committees and involve retired teachers instead.
Mother-cooked mid-day meals to launch soon in primary schools
The state minister for primary education says Bangladesh will pilot a Sri Lanka- and Tamil Nadu-style model with mothers cooking using locally sourced ingredients.
Good news on primary head-teacher appointments
The Directorate of Primary Education has begun filling more than 32,000 vacant posts after the Appellate Division resolved a long-running seniority dispute.
12-foot Burmese python rescued at Chittagong University
A volunteer rescue team freed the roughly 20-kilogram snake from a building near the south campus mosque and released it into the university's forest.
550 new dengue patients admitted to hospitals
No deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours, the health directorate says, as the year's toll stands at 88 dead and over 31,000 hospitalized.
Government issues 7 directives to schools on football tournament promotion
Institutions must display banners and mascots and inform students about the Prime Minister's Gold Cup, which kicks off September 9 in Chattogram.
10 newborns die in a day at West Bengal hospital
Malda Medical College Hospital says eight of the infants had been referred in critical condition from other facilities, as the state health department seeks a report.
Bangladesh, China discuss expanding higher-education opportunities
Officials met in Guangzhou to explore university partnerships and technical-education cooperation between the two countries.
10 products ordered withdrawn from market for failing to meet standards
BSTI found Bombay Sweets spice mixes and several ghee brands, including Baghabari, substandard in lab testing and has threatened to revoke their licenses.
‘Who is this judge to speak about our religion?’: Owaisi slams hijab ruling
The AIMIM MP's sharp rebuke of an Allahabad High Court ruling that hijab isn't essential to Islamic practice has ignited fresh controversy in India.
RU Shibir demands announcement of RAKSU election schedule
The student organization also called for a 100% residential-housing roadmap and a housing allowance, crediting RAKSU's existence for campus improvements.
Nagarpur college student strangled, buried; one arrested
Anik confessed to strangling final-year student Md Shamim after allegedly demanding ransom money from the victim's family using his phone.
Narail Chhatra Dal leader expelled after yaba video goes viral
G.M. Mashrafi, a college-unit propaganda secretary, was expelled for violating organizational discipline after footage of his drug use spread on Facebook.
Directive orders all government primary schools to report vacant posts
The Directorate of Primary Education wants updated vacancy data by August 24 to complete the ongoing teacher recruitment process.
Madrasa education to become more career-focused
UGC member Prof Dr Abdullah-Al-Mamun says a curriculum overhaul, developed through a bottom-up process, will be finalized this month.
46 Motijheel Ideal teachers transferred overnight in one order
Teachers who had worked continuously at the main branch for five to seven years were moved to the Banashree and Mugda branches with governing-body consent.