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NCTB split into two entities appears right step forward

THE government’s initiative to put the task of printing pre-primary and primary textbooks, which the National Curriculum and Textbook Board has so far done, at the hands of the primary and mass education ministry appears problematic. The government has drafted the amendments to the National Curriculum and Textbook Board Act 2018 to transfer the responsibility for...

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Pry edn ministry to print, distribute textbooks

An initiative to engage the primary and mass education ministry in printing and distributing free textbooks for the pre-primary- and primary-level education is advancing despite objection from National Curriculum and Textbook Board officials.

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Anthropic to pay $1.5b over pirated books

Anthropic will pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a US class action lawsuit over allegedly using pirated books to train its artificial intelligence models, according to court documents filed Friday.

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India bans 25 books in Kashmir for ‘secessionism’

Police in Indian-administered Kashmir raided bookshops on Thursday after authorities banned 25 books, including one by Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy, saying the titles ‘excite secessionism’ in the contested Muslim-majority region...

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Attack on bookstall: Revisiting the Taslima Nasrin affair

IN 2009-2010, I was on research leave from the University of Dhaka to do a postdoctoral stint at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. I was going to work on a project titled ‘From Rokeya to Taslima: Trends in Muslim Feminism in South Asia’ — a topic related to my doctoral research completed at the University of Portsmouth, UK, in 2007 under the supervision of...

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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...

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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...

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Pry students to get textbooks by Jan: adviser Bidhan

Adviser of primary and mass education ministry professor Bidhan Ranjon Roy Poddar on Sunday said that primary level students would receive text books by January but there would be no celebration like before...

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Primary students to get all books in Jan: adviser

Primary and mass education adviser professor Bidhan Ranjan Roy Podder said that primary level students would receive 100 per cent textbooks in January, but there would be no celebrations before...

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BdREN hosts seminar on e-Books

Bangladesh Research and Education Network hosted a full-day seminar focused on ‘Enhancing Access to e-Books/e-Journals through TIGERfed’ on...

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Alaktak available at bookshops

Writer Sanjida Shahid’s new collection of short stories titled Alaktak is now available at different bookshops. Published under the banner of...