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Moral Learning: Looking beyond the present syllabi  

A. R. Farrukh Ahamed

‘Where is morality?’, if one asks, then nobody seems to hesitate to answer, it is nowhere now in Bangladesh. It has become now a million-dollar question as from the high ups of the country to the pious cleric, politicians, businessmen, bureaucrats, university teachers to poor schoolmasters; nobody is spared from the allegations of corruption. When talks about such moral degradation emerge in a city seminar or either in a village tea stall gossiping, usually it blames the education system of the country to be responsible for making more heinous minds among the educated ones. No wonder it makes when a news report reveals that a university teacher is accused of harassing his female student sexually, or...

BTV app launched

BTV app has been launched with the facility of watching Bangladesh television in mobile application and from now on people can download the app from Google play store for android mobile phones and apple store for i phones. People can watch the four channels- BTV, BTV World, BTV Chattogram and Sangsad Bangladesh Television- through this app. Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud today inaugurated the app of BTV at a function at the meeting room of his ministry at Secretariat. In his speech, the minister said the facility of watching BTV from any...

President, PM greet countrymen on Eid-ul-Fitr

President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today greeted the countrymen as well as the Muslims across the world on the occasion of the holy Eid-ul-Fitr, the greatest religious festivals of the Muslim Ummah. They issued separate messages praying for continued peace, progress and prosperity of the country, the Muslim Ummah, the interfaith harmony and global peace, reports BSS. In a message on the holy Eid-ul-Fitr, the greatest religious festival of the Muslim Ummah, the President called upon countrymen to celebrate the Eid festival mai...

Eid celebrations dampened by pandemic

Dr Mohammad Didare Alam Muhsin

The country is going to celebrate the holy Eid-ul-Fitr once again amid the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic. While on the one hand, after month-long fasting, people from all walks of life are avidly waiting for celebrating the Eid festivities together with family and friends, there is a fear on the other hand that the infections that has just begun to subside will surge again. The new form of coronavirus that has been rampant in the neighboring country is also eye-...

US launches STEM education initiatives for women, girls

The US embassy here today launched a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education initiative for Bangladesh’s women and girls. US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl Miller inaugurated the “Strengthening U.S.-Bangladesh Sustainable Relationship by Developing Student-centered STEM Education” project at BRAC Inn in the capital. While inaugurating the project, Miller recognised the contributions of women to different sectors in Bangladesh and across the world, highlighting the importance of encouraging and supporting women and girls to pursue education and careers in STEM...

AK Azad elected Vice President of ICC Bangladesh

Mr. A. K. Azad has been elected as a Vice President of ICC Bangladesh Executive Board during its Meeting held on 15 February. The post of Vice President became vacant with the sad demise of Mr. Latifur Rahman on 1 July 2020.  Mr. Azad is the Chairman and Managing Director of Ha-Meem Group of Companies. Ha-Meem group has achieved outstanding success in expanding the readymade garments sector of Bangladesh under his leadership. As a former President of FBCCI and Bangladesh Chamber of Industries he has contributed in the policy formulation for deve...
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