EKUSHEY BOOK FAIR: Cultural events attract thin audience
Cultural events failed to attract wide audiences to their programmes at the ongoing month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair on Thursday due to alleged mismanagement...
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98 new titles hit on fifth day
The numbers of new titles increased on Wednesday, the fifth day of the ongoing month-long Amar Ekuskey Book Fair being organised by the Bangla Academy at Suhrawardy Udyan and the Bangla Academy premises in the capital Dhaka...
Revision to Islamic studies textbooks stressed
Writers, researchers, academics and Islamic scholars on Wednesday stressed revisions to Islamic studies textbooks for primary- and secondary-level education...
EKUSHEY BOOK FAIR: Little mag corner mostly empty
Little Magazine Chattar, the area designated for little magazine publishers at the month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair, on Tuesday was seen mostly empty, but the overall visitor turnout was high on the fourth day of the fair being organised by the Bangla Academy at Suhrawardy Udyan and the Bangla Academy premises in the capital Dhaka...
EKUSHEY BOOK FAIR: Visitors rise on 3rd day, mismanagement on
The Amar Ekushey Book Fair witnessed a surge in the number of visitors on the third day of the month-long fair on Monday, as educational institutions across the country remained closed on the day due to Saraswati Puja, but allegations of unclean and dirty environment at the fair were raised by both publishers and visitors...
EKUSHEY BOOK FAIR: New titles, visitors start arriving
New books and visitors started arriving at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2025 on Sunday, a day after the inauguration of the month-long annual event...
Ekushey book fair rolls out amid chaos
The month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2025 was opened on Saturday covering the Bangla Academy premises and a large area of Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka city amid mismanagement with preparations at the venues still going on.
EKUSHEY BOOK FAIR:聽An inclusive stall allocation is the way
THE Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2025 has sparked significant dissatisfaction due to perceived irregularities in the allocation of pavilions and stalls. Notably, 14 prominent publishing houses received stall allocations...
DMP chief assures high security during Ekushey Book Fair
Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Sheikh Md Sajjat Ali has requested the Bangla Academy not to allow the display of provocative books at the month-long Ekushey Book Fair.
AMAR EKUSHEY BOOK FAIR 2025: Yunus to inaugurate fair tomorrow
The month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2025 will begin at Suhrawardy Udyan and on Bangla Academy premises tomorrow...
EKUSHEY BOOK FAIR: Preparations in final stage
The preparations for Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2025, which will begin at Suhrawardy Udyan and the Bangla Academy premises in the capital Dhaka on February 1, are in the final stage...
59pc textbooks yet to be distributed
More than half of the free textbooks meant for the students from the pre-primary level to the higher secondary level in the country are yet to be distributed among the students although the education ministry officials promised to distribute all books by today...
All pry students to get textbooks by Jan: adviser
The primary and mass education affairs adviser, Bidhan Ranjan Roy Poddar, on Sunday said that all primary students would get textbooks by January...
NCTB fails to incorporate uprising spirit in textbooks: seminar
Speakers at a seminar on Friday said that the National Curriculum and Textbook Board failed to properly incorporate the 2024 July uprising spirit in the newly revised textbooks.
bKash offers cashback, discounts on ticket bookings
bKash has rolled out numerous discounts and cashback on bus, airplane and train ticket bookings through bKash payment, said a press release...
Writ petition seeks probe into corruption allegations against NCTB chairman
A writ petition was filed with the High Court on Tuesday, seeking the court to direct the Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate corruption allegations against the National Curriculum and Textbook Board chairman....
Proposed refined curriculum for 2026 likely to be implemented in phases
The proposed refined national curriculum for the next year is likely to be implemented in phases, said National Curriculum and Textbook Board officials...
ATTACK ON NATIONAL MINORITY STUDENTS: Protests on as advisers say meeting all demands impossible
Adviser to the ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts affairs Supradip Chakma on Monday said that the government had all sympathy for the protesting national minority students but could not meet all their demands...
Claim over sheltering 鈥榓ccused鈥� at SSF DG鈥檚 house 鈥榝abricated鈥�: statement
Facebook posts claiming that the Special Security Force director general had sheltered crime accused Ali Hussain Shishir in his apartment are fabricated, said a spokesperson on Saturday...
Attacks on national minority student protests outrageous
THE attacks on the protests that national minority students held on January 15 and the attacks on a rally that mostly students held the next day in protest at the attacks on the January 15 protests are as unsavoury as equally outrageous. Students of national minorities, banded as the Aggrieved Indigenous Students and People, held protests at the...
Book fair should get off to good start, close to good ending
THE Bangla Academy organising committee appears to have already been embroiled in a horde of preparatory issues when Amar Ekushey Granthamela 2025 is knocking on the door. The allotment of stalls for the fair, which would begin on February 1 and run for the duration of the month, would be done in a lottery to be drawn on January 17...
AMAR EKUSHEY BOOK FAIR 2025: Organising committee faces challenges over preparations
The organising committee of the forthcoming Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2025 faces various challenges at the preparation level, said its member secretary Sarkar Amin on Tuesday...
NATIONAL MINORITY LANGUAGE GRAFFITI: 2 confronting platforms to hold demos before NCTB
Two confronting students鈥� platforms are scheduled to stage demonstrations today cordoning off the National Curriculum and Textbook Board building in the capital over removal of graffiti on the national minority groups from a textbook...
Remove misleading info about BNP in textbook: Rizvi
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Saturday said that the new textbook for the Class IX and X contained misleading information about the BNP and urged the government to remove the information immediately from the book.
Textbook crisis leaves students in limbo
THE 2025 academic year in Bangladesh began with a major setback as significant delays in textbook distribution disrupted classrooms nationwide. While the government introduced online textbooks as an interim solution...
27.4 per cent free textbooks distributed so far: NCTB
Most of the students across the country are yet to get the free textbooks as till Wednesday about 27.4 per cent books had been distributed...
Don鈥檛 know when all students will get textbooks, edn adviser says
The Bangladesh interim government education adviser, Wahiduddin Mahmud, on Tuesday said he could not confirm when all students would receive their textbooks in the current academic year.
Education, given short shrift, has always been left in lurch
EDUCATION has been a happening sector in the year that has passed by, with changes in the curriculum and textbooks, which reverted to a much previous state with changes in textbooks after the August 5 political changeover. The sector has always been happening at intervals since independence. But allocation for education has always remained...
Most students yet to get free textbooks
Majorities of the students across the country did not get free textbooks on the second day of the year on Thursday...
TEXTBOOK DISTRIBUTION: Edn adviser regrets failure
The education adviser, Wahiduddin Mahmud, on Wednesday expressed regrets to students and their guardians for not distributing all free textbooks on the first day of this year...
